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Article: `PIGLET'S BIG MOVIE' IS (SURPRISE!) BRIGHT, COLORFUL, AND FUZZY FARE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 21, 2003
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Where do aging singer-songwriters turn when they want to reach a
new audience? Children's movies: You won't find an audience newer or
more captive than a group of 6-year-olds slumped in multiplex seats
soaking up Paul Simon singing "Father and Daughter" in "The Wild
Thornberrys Movie" or Carly Simon warbling "If I Wasn't So Small" in
"Piglet's Big Movie." Paul may have been Oscar-nominated, but Carly
goes him one better, penning a total of eight tunes for the Disney
cartoon and appearing under the closing credits in live action
footage as she leaps gaily about a sylvan glade.
As alarming as that sounds, it's the only such moment in a film
that bends over backward to soothe. Like
all of ...