Title - Christopher Robin
Studio - Walt Disney Studios
Starring - Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell, Jim Cummings, Chris O'Dowd, Toby Jones
Writer - Alex Ross Perry, Allison Schroeder
Director - Marc Forster
Release - 3 August 2018
Nostalgia, I have none because I did not grow up with Winnie The Pooh. What kind of a name is that anyway? What's "The Pooh", and why does he have a female name?
My first encounter with the Hundred Acre Wood was during a section in one of the "Kingdom Hearts" console game, and Winnie just drove me up the wall with his dialogue and the quests in this land.
And that particular brand of dialogue and sensibilities and logic, of course, was abundant here. I understand that it is meant to be inspirational and simplistic in the best of ways but I found myself agreeing more with the logic of the adult Christopher.
Plus whenever foreigners become a menace to a society, just like how the animals were in the streets of London, the story has lost me forever because I am just against all of this.
But as a movie and a story, I do appreciate the messages it contained. Some of the artistic choices made by Forster was not for me, like the dialogue between McGregor's character and his daughter in the bedroom; I thought that could have gone differently and more logically. But it needed the convenience to drive the plot.
I do have a favourite character, which was Eeyore, voiced by Brad Garrett. And all of his dialogue I really enjoyed because he was a very dark character that was suicidal and I found it hilarious that he was created for a kid's storybook.
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