Thursday, January 3, 2019

Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (1997)


IMDb plot summary: Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin are best friends who wish they could be together forever. However Christopher Robin needs to go to school. Christopher Robin has trouble telling Pooh that they will be separated, so he leaves him a note. Pooh, misunderstanding and believing that Christopher Robin has gone to Skull and needs his help launches a rescue mission with the help of Rabbit, Tigger, and Piglet. 
Directed by Karl Geurs. Starring Jim Cummings, John Fiedler, Ken Sansom, and Paul Winchell.

This is... all right. Having seen Christopher Robin at the end of last year, this seems like a pale facsimile of the characters clearly targeted toward very young children. It's not egregious or anything, but it doesn't really offer anything for older audiences the way the original books (and even movies) do. I'm just altogether the wrong demographic to get much out of this.

1.5 stars.

How it entered my Flickchart:
Pooh's Grand Adventure < Frequency
Pooh's Grand Adventure > A Thief in the Night
Pooh's Grand Adventure < The Barkleys of Broadway
Pooh's Grand Adventure < Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
Pooh's Grand Adventure > Almost Famous
Pooh's Grand Adventure > MASH
Pooh's Grand Adventure > Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Pooh's Grand Adventure < Anything Else
Pooh's Grand Adventure < The Cat in the Hat (1971)
Pooh's Grand Adventure > Mulholland Dr.
Pooh's Grand Adventure < The Three Faces of Eve
Final spot: #2009 out of 2894, or 31%.

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