Pooh's Heffalump Movie

Pooh's Heffalump Movie
Promotional poster for Pooh's Heffalump Movie
Directed by	Frank Nissen
Written by	Brian Hohlfeld Evan Spiliotopoulos
Produced by	Jessica Koplos-Miller
Starring	Jim Cummings John Fiedler Kath Soucie Peter Cullen Brenda Blethyn
Music by	Joel McNeely
Distributed by	Buena Vista
Release date	February 11 2005
Running time	68 min
Language	English
Budget	$20 million

Pooh's Heffalump Movie is an animated Winnie-the-Pooh movie released by Walt Disney Pictures in 2005.

Plot

Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends hear a strange noise and find a set of large, perfectly circular foorprints in the Hundred Acre Wood. They jump to the conclusion that the noise and prints are from a heffalump, and Rabbit organizes an expedition to go try to catch it; but Roo is told to stay behind, as everyone believes the expedition is too dangerous for one as young as he.

Roo slips out on his own in search of the heffalump. He finds it: it is a playful young four-footed creature named Heffridge Trumpler Brompet Heffalump IV (nicknamed "Lumpy"), colored lavender and having a British accent and a trunk like an elephant, but being not much larger than Roo. Roo is afraid at first but the two quickly make friends and play. Roo asks Lumpy to come home with him to meet all of Roo's friends; Lumpy is afraid because of what he thinks they might be like, but Roo reassures him and they return to the Hundred Acre Wood, which is deserted, as everyone else is still out searching for the heffalump.

The pair eventually meet up with the rest of Roo's friends, who are frightened and immediately try to "rescue" Roo and capture the Lumpy. Lumpy runs away; in running after him Roo ends up in a tight spot, and it's up to Lumpy's mother to save Roo and show everyone that heffalumps are nice and not to be feared.

Trivia

• Originally slated as Direct-To-Video, this feature was upgraded to theatrical release.
• More than 900 children, most of them actors, auditioned in the U.S. for the voice of Lumpy. Soon thereafter, auditions were held in the U.K. That day, the team found their Lumpy in five-year-old Kyle Stanger, who had never acted before. Songwriter and recording artist Carly Simon helped come up with Lumpy's full name: Heffridge Trumpler Brompet Heffalump, IV. Simon also sings on the soundtrack and wrote some new songs for the film. According to the team, she became very passionate about the story during production. A Heffalump's favorite food: Cookies called rumple-doodles. Heffalump is the first in the Pooh series in which Winnie the Pooh narrates. For the first time, Roo plays the big lead.
• The trap Kanga is caught in includes a life preserver labeled HMS Ashdown; much of the Hundred Acre Wood is modeled on Ashdown Forest (and vice versa; there is now a feature known as the Heffalump Trap).
• Despite the popular Heffalumps and Woozles song from The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, there are no woozles in this film.
• Owl and Gopher are also absent. This was the first theatrical Pooh film without an appearance by Owl.
• Christopher Robin appears only during the end credits, and does not speak, for the first time in a Pooh movie.
• This was the last 2D film released by Disney theatrically. It was supposed to be the last 2D film released ever by Disney, this was not the case thanks to the Universal Pictures animated film, Curious George.

External links

• Pooh's Heffalump Movie at IMDb