Christopher Robin

Name: Christopher Robin
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Comedy, Animation
Released: August 3, 2018
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 60
Cast: Adrian Scarborough, Brad Garrett, Bronte Carmichael, Chris O'Dowd, Ewan McGregor

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Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: August 3, 2018 | PG

Starring: Adrian Scarborough, Brad Garrett, Bronte Carmichael, Chris O'Dowd, Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell, Jim Cummings, John Dagleish, Katy Carmichael, Ken Nwosu, Mark Gatiss, Nick Mohammed, Oliver Ford Davies, Paul Chahidi, Peter Capaldi, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Ronke Adekoluejo, Sophie Okonedo, Toby Jones, Tristan Sturrock

Summary: Working-class family man Christopher Robin (Ewan McGregor) encounters his childhood friend Winnie-the-Pooh, who helps him to rediscover the joys of life.

Director: Marc Forster

Genre(s): Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Comedy, Animation, Family, Musical

Rating: PG

Runtime: 104 min

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Moira Macdonald

Aug 2, 2018

As sweet as honey but without the stickiness, Christopher Robin is a gentle delight — for children, and for former children. Read full review

Bryan Bishop

Oct 8, 2018

Christopher Robin doesn’t just use nostalgia as a salve; it uses it as a way to mourn things that we’ve lost in our lives and as a way to unpack how our actions can hurt those around us. It’s a feel-good movie that really doesn’t think there’s a whole lot to feel good about much of the time. Read full review

Tom Russo

Aug 2, 2018

It’s surprising to see how straight McGregor plays it for director Marc Forster (the J.M. Barrie portrait “Finding Neverland”), allowing the CG-animated Pooh and friends to endearingly steal the show. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

Aug 2, 2018

The film is pretty conventional Disney fare: silly, slapsticky, all-too-neatly wrapped up and punctuated by a surfeit of poignant moments. Read full review

E. Oliver Whitney

Aug 2, 2018

There may be plenty of charming, classic Pooh-isms sprinkled throughout Christopher Robin, but the film just can’t manage to bring the same level of poignance and wisdom to its own story. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Odie Henderson

Aug 3, 2018

Because Disney wants your money, of course. I don’t begrudge their need for greed; I just wish they hadn’t given us yet another movie built on the pseudo-psychological cliché that adults need to reconnect with their childhoods in order to be better adults. Read full review

Emily Yoshida

Aug 2, 2018

It is one of the more sadistic family films I have ever seen, a picture of the residents of a neglected childhood reckoning with the abandonment of their beloved, now grown-up human leader. Read full review

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FairlifeMilk

Aug 3, 2018

I'm not sure how this is getting such a low Critic Score, then again yes I do. Critics have no idea what a good movie is. I'm 22 so to that one critic who said only 65 year old's will enjoy I guess that's out the window, my whole theater was full of ranging ages and all laughed and had aI'm not sure how this is getting such a low Critic Score, then again yes I do. Critics have no idea what a good movie is. I'm 22 so to that one critic who said only 65 year old's will enjoy I guess that's out the window, my whole theater was full of ranging ages and all laughed and had a great time the entire length of the movie. The plot is a fantastic one ranging in emotions, even teared up in a few parts of the movie. It's a very heartfelt and beautiful return for Winnie the Pooh and friends.… Expand

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manningn15

Jan 14, 2019

This is my favorite Winnie the Pooh movie, one of my top 5 favorite Disney movies, and one of my favorite movies of all time. It was funny, cute, and touching. The voice over performances were stupendous especially from Jim Cummings and Brad Garrett. The acting performances were fantasticThis is my favorite Winnie the Pooh movie, one of my top 5 favorite Disney movies, and one of my favorite movies of all time. It was funny, cute, and touching. The voice over performances were stupendous especially from Jim Cummings and Brad Garrett. The acting performances were fantastic especially from Ewan McGregor and Hayley Atwell. The visual effects were spectacular all of the animated characters looked like real stuffed animals. The musical score/soundtrack was amazing I loved it. Also the story and screenplay were great. A+.… Expand

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sanesal123

Aug 8, 2018

el factor esencial de esta película es la nostalgia, recordar la infancia con una historia sencilla y unos personajes entrañables. No pudo negar que las lágrimas salieron de mis ojos al final.

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preciouskiki

Aug 13, 2018

It's a charming movie, and Ewan MacGregor is a delight to watch in it. Hayley Atwell is also quite good as the wife. It may not be the best of its genre (I'd give that award to "Paddington Bear" #1 with Colin Firth and #2 with Hugh Grant), but it's still a worthwhile way to spend twoIt's a charming movie, and Ewan MacGregor is a delight to watch in it. Hayley Atwell is also quite good as the wife. It may not be the best of its genre (I'd give that award to "Paddington Bear" #1 with Colin Firth and #2 with Hugh Grant), but it's still a worthwhile way to spend two pleasant hours, whether or not you bring kids.… Expand

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jfallen1990

Mar 24, 2019

I did not know if I would enjoy this movie in the beginning of the film, but it was well worth staying. I would advise give it more than 15 minutes.Great emotion heart pulling good acting I loved it. A good Watch.

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Vitor007

Sep 6, 2018

"Christopher Robin" may be cute, but the expectation was too big. Too mature, portraying little about the back of these classic characters, keeping a main focus on Pooh. Other characters had a simple impression, without much producers concern, but the film has a good message, that the focus"Christopher Robin" may be cute, but the expectation was too big. Too mature, portraying little about the back of these classic characters, keeping a main focus on Pooh. Other characters had a simple impression, without much producers concern, but the film has a good message, that the focus can never be 100% in our responsibilities, in view of the people who care about you. 6.8/10… Expand

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TrevorsView

Aug 9, 2018

Ever since Kindergarten, a guardian angel figure has been watching over me, and no, it was not the Winnie-the-Pooh VHS tapes I rented and replayed every day, like I thought at the time. Despite always yearning to play with toys on my own again, today, I must take on responsibility, as that’sEver since Kindergarten, a guardian angel figure has been watching over me, and no, it was not the Winnie-the-Pooh VHS tapes I rented and replayed every day, like I thought at the time. Despite always yearning to play with toys on my own again, today, I must take on responsibility, as that’s what grownups do, naturally. What/who was that figure then? I will answer as I discuss Disney’s own modern live-action take on that bear of very little brain.

Just sitting through Christopher Robin proved to me that I need to grow past my old guardian angel assumptions, as it pains me to say this now joins A Wrinkle In Time as the most unbearable 2018 movie I’ve undergone thus far. After this torturous money-maker first glosses past Christopher’s childhood memories, Disney proceeds to tells kids whatever they enjoy hearing so that they beg for more toys from dad’s wallet. The low effort shows, mainly by how off Piglet’s voice sounds compared to his cartoon counterpart, and how Rabbit’s voice sounds way too Pooh-ish.

If the CGI plushies weren’t strange enough, fake news also disgraces the real Christopher Robin Milne, starting with the names of his wife and daughter. In real life, his wife’s name was Lesley de Selincourt, not Evelyn, whom he married in 1948, not 1944 like this movie states. During brief flashbacks of Christopher in class, he doodles Pooh and friends in his notebook, something the true Mr. Milne would never have done, since he in truth hated the books his father wrote about him. “Entering boarding school at age 9, Christopher Robin had a full-fledged ‘love-hate relationship with my fictional namesake’ that continued into adulthood, he wrote in his 1974 memoir The Enchanted Places.” (Country Living) Overall, Disney shows greater loyalty to A.A. Milne’s books that he wrote to take advantage of his son, turning him into a victim of fame at a disturbingly young age. Having learned more about the real Christopher Robin, I now feel ashamed for ever loving the Disneyfied Winnie-the-Pooh, as if I was a part of face-slapping Christopher Milne’s memory hard.

On top of this motion picture’s skewing of reality, Ewan McGregor plays his inconsistent role inconsistently off a nonsensible script that relies on coincidences. Sure, there might be great costumes with fun details, including Madeline’s classic Mary Janes that look like Christopher Robin’s, yet the film’s editor allows nary a good chance for you to spot them. Besides the countless unfinished staging of elements, several of them feel out of place, particularly an underwater dream sequence of a heffalump (which is really just a plain old regular elephant head).

Most of the blame goes to the messy directing; director Marc Forster crops way too close to human faces with a handheld motion sickness camera. Even worse, the entire image always looks gloomy throughout cheery scenes with an odd magenta hue. Not even the directed humor works, for certain jokes, particularly one about lipreading from behind noise-proof glass, reaches no punchline. It’s just a setup, anticipation built up, then... nothing. The joke is forgotten. Forget anything unique about anything having to do with this film either, as it essentially steals Hook’s plot scenario, complete with the line from that movie, “I lost my marbles.”

If you crave a nice personal experience, run away, for the Robin family’s communication here feature absolutely cringeworthy dialogue. Essentially, the overworked man spends too little quality family time, although hardly any information comes across about details of his bond with his wife or daughter before he took his job. It basically makes the wife comes across too much as a servant to her husband, just to make more room for Pooh’s bothersome antics to command your focus. Consequently, it turns its World War II backdrop into a cheap plot device, because apparently those millions of lives lost are less important than a red balloon. I don’t think that’s what Disney intended to say, but their carelessness certainly made it come off that we must never anticipate tragedy, but instead a problem-free life.

Unlike this mindset, love blooms from small shared moments. As a child, it’s a red balloon. As an adult, it’s buying your friend’s lunch. Depend on whoever can bring out your best self, not the smooth-talking of the Mouse House that exploits the susceptible child inside each of us. I hence take these new lessons on old ideas to improve larger times; no guardian angel is stuff and fluff, but flesh and blood beings.

Therefore, my guardian angel comes from those loved ones who can nurture me using our mutual need: sweet shared memories. Christopher Robin does the complete opposite.… Expand

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