Christopher Robin is a fantastic film with a very well developed plot and a tremendous cast of both live action and voice actors. It is an immensely sweet movie that had me tearing up within the first ten minutes as we follow Christopher Robin as a young boy parting from his friends in the Hundred Acre Woods. Ewan McGregor, who brilliantly portrays an older Christopher, has such a tremendous chemistry with Winnie the Pooh that it was hard to believe he was not actually on set with him, it was pure and simple, just a joy to watch.
I did find it quite odd to make the choice for several of the characters to be English, Pooh, Tigger and Eeyore were not, thankfully being voiced by their original voice actors, but it was strange to see the rest having English accents, it felt like they were in two different movies. Peter Capaldi as Rabbit was a particularly questionable choice, he resembled the one we know from the cartoons in no way at all, he had no OCD, basically just being Capaldi voicing a rabbit, playing Capaldi, it did not even resemble the Disney style, simply being a CGI Bunny.
The film features many of Pooh's wonderful quotes from the A.A. Milne books, some of my favorites being "We didn't realise we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun" and "Doing nothing often leads to the very best of something" which ends up being the overall message of the film. Pooh becomes such a wholesome, profound and endearing character from the use of this classical text.
Tearjerking and wonderful. Sweet, simple and fun, Christopher Robin has big ideas that it always keeps grounded, I would recommend it to anyone looking for a good family film.
Now in his forties, married with a child and struggling to come up with a solution to avoid potential work cuts, Christopher Robin is reunited with his friend Pooh, who needs his help.
Best Performance: Ewan McGregor
I did find it quite odd to make the choice for several of the characters to be English, Pooh, Tigger and Eeyore were not, thankfully being voiced by their original voice actors, but it was strange to see the rest having English accents, it felt like they were in two different movies. Peter Capaldi as Rabbit was a particularly questionable choice, he resembled the one we know from the cartoons in no way at all, he had no OCD, basically just being Capaldi voicing a rabbit, playing Capaldi, it did not even resemble the Disney style, simply being a CGI Bunny.
The film features many of Pooh's wonderful quotes from the A.A. Milne books, some of my favorites being "We didn't realise we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun" and "Doing nothing often leads to the very best of something" which ends up being the overall message of the film. Pooh becomes such a wholesome, profound and endearing character from the use of this classical text.
Tearjerking and wonderful. Sweet, simple and fun, Christopher Robin has big ideas that it always keeps grounded, I would recommend it to anyone looking for a good family film.
Now in his forties, married with a child and struggling to come up with a solution to avoid potential work cuts, Christopher Robin is reunited with his friend Pooh, who needs his help.
Best Performance: Ewan McGregor