IMDb plot summary: A working-class family man, Christopher Robin, encounters his childhood friend Winnie-the-Pooh, who helps him to rediscover the joys of life.
Directed by Marc Forster. Starring Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell, Bronte Carmichael, Mark Gatiss, and Jim Cummings.
This movie is constantly teetering on the edge of cloying sentimentality, but it never quite goes over, and that is largely due to the incredible script capturing the tone of the original animal creatures *perfectly*. It doesn't ever feel like "somebody trying to tell a Winnie the Pooh story," it's just... Pooh and his friends. And the charm of those characters makes up, easily, for the awkwardness of how broadly the human characters are written. It's more delightful than it has any right to be, managing to never QUITE cross the line.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Christopher Robin > Interstate 60
Christopher Robin > Marty
Christopher Robin < The Holiday
Christopher Robin > The Graduate
Christopher Robin < Captain Blood
Christopher Robin < The Babadook
Christopher Robin > The Red Violin
Christopher Robin < The Land Before Time
Christopher Robin < Bicentennial Man
Christopher Robin < The Big Short
Christopher Robin > The Shape of Water
Final spot: #506 out of 2831.
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