Review of Christopher Robin (2018) by Kuehnau — 22 Dec 2018

There's only one word to describe Christopher Robin as a film and that is idealistic. The movie starts out good enough, showing Christopher Robin's childhood and his growth into an adult man, with a family to care and love for and a demanding job that pulls him away from them.

Along the way, his old friend's from the Thousand Acre Woods show up to save the day and teach him about what is really important. The reality is, as a Disney movie, it preaches a lot of wishy-washy idealistic drivel that falls flat on it's face as soon as reality rears it's ugly head.

Perhaps I am a bitter adult, but people have to work to survive and sometimes that means neglecting the most important things. It's just an unfortunate part of life most of us have grown to accept. The biggest issue I have with the movie is the fact Winnie the Pooh and friends are represented in the movie as real, living creatures that everyone can see, while the source material implies that they were always imaginary friends of a loney and isolated child.

I rather think that if the movie had went into a different direction, a darker one, perhaps presenting some sort of psychotic break for Christopher Robin, the movie could have been a much more interesting concept.

At the end of the day, it's not a bad film by any means, but that doesn't mean it couldn't have been better.