I liked Pooh’s Heffalump Movie a lot too, but then I have a lot of nostalgia for it, and that’s just me.

With how expensive tickets are, I certainly wouldn’t cough up 11$ to see something that’s a little over an hour long.

On the other hand, I cannot knot stop singing “The Backson Song”. The Lopez’s should’ve gotten a Best Song Oscar nom for that. It’s so engaging and the wordplay is impressive. Simply incredible! ^_^

This may seem like nitpicking, but the “Disney Canon” is simply the set of feature-length movies produced by WDAS. It’s not a matter of how good the movies might be, which is based on subjective opinion anyway, but the specific studio that made them. Granted, WDAS is the storied original Disney animation studio–the first in the world to produce animated features that are recognizably mainstream American movies–and they’re expected to make top quality movies and are funded accordingly, but the Canon is still just their movies, good and bad alike. This is nothing that you don’t already well know, but you sort of made it seem like something else. Sorry for the nitpick.

Anyway, I agree that the public–and even some animation fans–are largely unaware of which production studio made which “Disney” movie, despite the opening titles being clear about this. Because WDAS used to be all of Disney they had never been given their own identity before this century, and have now sort of become lost among all of Disney’s other studios and the general Disney branding. The name change to Walt Disney Animation Studios and the creation of an intro sequence have done little to remedy this, as people can’t tell them apart from DisneyToon Studios by name alone (only people like us), and the name is sufficiently generic that I bet some people consider Pixar one of Disney’s animation studios under that banner. In addition, I’ve gotten the impression that more than a few people out there have forgotten that WDAS even exists anymore at all, and the switch to CGI has greatly bolstered this. I’ve actually gotten into a number of debates with people over who actually produced WDAS’ last several movies. One time I had to provide a recently-dated photo of the studio facility (the Roy E. Disney building or “hat” building) and the staff posing in front of it to prove that Frozen and Big Hero 6 weren’t made by Pixar. Then on several occasions people argued that maybe WDAS made the designs and stories, but Pixar actually animated these movies. Outside of the Disney fandom, WDAS might as well be a new, unknown studio.

I disagree that Piglet’s Big Movie was a poorly done film – I think it accomplished successfully what this film failed, which is recontextualize the Milne stories in a connected way, instead of the anthology approach of the original Disney Pooh shorts.