Christopher Robin

Christopher Robin is a very nicely made movie.

The story starts where the animated movie, The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh (1977) left off, when Christopher Robin says goodbye to his beloved teddy bear.

"Pooh, while I'm away just doing nothing, will you come up here sometime?"
"You mean alone?"
"Yes, and Pooh, promise you won't forget me?...not even when I'm 100?"
"How old shall I be then?"
"99."

At first, I thought the movie was gonna be about how A.A Milne's Winnie The Pooh got its start,
but really, it's about Christopher Robin becoming a business man, Pooh is lonely and winds up in the city where Mr. Robin and Pooh bump into eachother at a bench. Christopher returns to the Hundred Acre Wood and eventually sees the rest of his childhood animal friends, at first, they're not convinced it's Christopher Robin until he pretends to fight the Heffalumps and Woozles. Christopher Robin is also a married man and has an intelligent daughter who sees Pooh, Tigger and company. Christopher has left his paperwork behind and she returns it to her father, but causes panic for both her parents in the process. Christopher Robin goes to his job and recommends that employees should be allowed to do nothing, and allows his family to visit the Hundred Acre Wood.

Christopher Robin is a pretty good movie, though at first, I thought it would focus more on how A.A Milne's Winnie The Pooh got its start, but no. My mom asked me on the way home what message does this movie convey, and I thought about it slowly but surely, and indeed one of the messages Christopher Robin conveys is that your family takes precedence over your work, I.E, Christopher Robin's paperwork blows away into the air, and he tells his daughter that "that doesn't matter, what matters is that you're safe." The ending is very similar to Mary Poppins (1964), George Banks walking into the bank late at night and talking to his fellow bankers, and then reflects on how much he loves his two children, picks up from the "man with a wooden leg named Smith", and "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." But yeah, it's got nothin to do with Christopher Robin, but that British charm is there in the story.

So I say go see Christopher Robin.

- Frankie.