First The Tigger Movie, now Piglet's Big Movie: Who knew that the residents of the Hundred Acre Wood had such big egos and powerful agents? Actually, a more appropriate name for Piglet's Big Movie might be Three Small Piglet Movies And A Belabored Framing Device, but that wouldn't fit on a poster as easily. Turning its focus to the little pig who doesn't look much like a pig at all, the film opens with Pooh, Tigger, Rabbit, and Eeyore setting out to trick a hive of easily angered bees out of their honey. Despondent about being left out of their plan, Piglet wanders off to the accompaniment of one of several new Carly Simon songs. When his friends realize he's gone, they begin reflecting on past adventures, each taken from one of A.A. Milne's original stories. The stories hold up well and the animation, while unambitious, has a handmade, storybook quality to it that matches the material. Though it's tough to find much fault with a film so sweet, Piglet's Big Movie never lives up to its title. Simon's songs are pleasant and undistinguished, and whenever the movie takes time out for one of them, it might as well flash the words "Squirm Now" on the screen for the benefit of younger viewers (or older ones, for that matter). The overarching let's-go-find-Piglet story suffers by comparison to its shorter companions; its lesson about the value of friendship is made redundant by the stories it surrounds. Nevertheless, better for Disney to keep returning to Pooh and the gang–characters designed for repeat visits–than to keep sucking the life out of The Jungle Book and other stand-alone classics, even if it means watching the eerily well-preserved Simon writhe inappropriately over the closing credits