While some may find these messages obvious and perhaps a little trite, especially as they have been explored before in films such as Steven Spielberg’s Hook, I personally felt that they were done in a tasteful, non-preachy way that works for both children and adults. Yes, it contains plenty of the usual antics from Pooh and his friends – getting faces stuck in honey jars, clumsily knocking things over, and so on – but it also contains a deeper message about not forgetting the things that make you happy, maintaining at least some of the sense of innocence and playfulness you had as a child into adulthood, and finding a healthy balance between the responsibilities to both work and family. The film co-stars Hayley Atwell, Mark Gatiss, and Bronte Carmichael, as well as the voices of Jim Cummings and Brad Garrett.Ĭhristopher Robin is quite unlike any other Winnie the Pooh film. During one particularly stressful weekend, having been forced to work by his superior instead of going to the countryside with his family, Christopher Robin is visited by Winnie the Pooh Pooh tells him that all his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood – Piglet, Eeyore, and the rest – have vanished and he needs Christopher Robin’s help to find them. As a manager at a struggling luggage company, Christopher Robin spends far too much time at work, neglecting his family he has also seemingly forgotten all about his beloved childhood friends, and lost the gift for playful imagination that he had in abundance as a youth. McGregor plays the adult Christopher Robin, now all grown up and living in post-war London with his wife Evelyn and young daughter Madeline. Directed by Marc Forster and starring Ewan McGregor, it is the first ever live action Pooh film, and the first one ever to explore the lives of the characters after the books and stories ended. This new film, Christopher Robin, is somewhat different.
The honey-loving bear of ‘very little brain’ has been a part of the Disney stable of characters since the 1960s, and has gone on to appear in multiple animated films.
Winnie the Pooh has been a character beloved to millions of children all over the world since author A.