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Article: Sweet Retreat; Piglet's Big Movie is a lighthearted and well-made film for the whole family.
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- Monterey County Weekly
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- April 9, 2003
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Disney's timing in releasing Piglet's Big Movie last Friday could not have been more serendipitous had it been National Hug a Pig for Peace Week. At the end of what will surely go down as one of the most disheartening weeks in American history, and as a dark and matted blanket of existential anomie appears to have settled over the world for the duration, A.A. Milne's Piglet, loyal pal to Pooh, finally premiered in his own movie.
Lo and behold, it's a porker, uh, corker of a family film, exactly the sort of blissful, cute, altogether sweet meditation on friendship and Being a Good Person that the world could use right now. It's only the second feature-length Milne adaptation to date (the ...