Christopher Robin
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Christopher Robin is a 2018 American live-action/animated fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay by Alex Ross Perry, Tom McCarthy, and Allison Schroeder, based on a story by Greg Brooker and Mark Steven Johnson. The film is inspired by the children's book series Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard and is a live-action/CGI follow-up to the Disney franchise of the same name. The film stars Ewan McGregor as the title character, alongside Hayley Atwell as his wife Evelyn, with the voices of Jim Cummings (reprising his roles as Winnie the Pooh and Tigger), Nick Mohammed as Piglet, and Brad Garrett (reprising his role as Eeyore). The story follows Christopher Robin, now an adult, who has lost his sense of imagination, only to be reunited with his childhood friend Winnie the Pooh, whom he must escort back to the Hundred Acre Wood to find his friends.
Plans for a live-action Winnie the Pooh adaptation were announced back in April 2015, and Forster was confirmed as the director in November 2016. McGregor signed on as Christopher Robin in April 2017 and principal photography began in August of that year in the United Kingdom, lasting until November.
Christopher Robin premiered in Burbank, California on July 30, 2018, and was released in the United States on August 3, by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its performances, musical score, and visual effects. It grossed $197.7 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film in Disney's Winnie the Pooh franchise, surpassing The Tigger Movie (2000). The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects at the 91st Academy Awards.
Why It Never Leaves Its Childhood Behind
- Stays very loyal to the source material and captures the joy-filled spark of the original franchise.
- Likable characters, especially Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin.
- The CGI used for Christopher Robin's childhood friends is impressive, giving them a solid balance between realistic and faithful designs to fit real-life environments.
- A very heartwarming, imaginative tone throughout the entire movie.
- Impressive acting and performances.
- Amazing voice acting from the actors who play Christopher Robin's childhood friends.
- Clever, well-paced moments.
- The idea of making a grown-up Christopher Robin reunite with Pooh and the others is pretty original and sounds like it could be an adventurous plot.
- The designs for the animals look like they put so much effort into making them look like the ones from both the book series and the animated franchise.
- Jim Cummings (Pooh and Tigger) and Brad Garrett (Eeyore in a 90's computer game) reprise their roles.
- Christopher Robin growing up and losing touch with his animal friends/imagination is a very relatable and accurate thing for grown-ups.
Bad Qualities
- As mentioned in WINLICB #3, The CGI for Christopher Robin's childhood friends, while they stay faithful to the original designs rather than the Disney designs, can look scary and uncanny to some.