Christopher Robin – Movie Review
Well, now, where you been, mate?
The movie “Christopher Robin” depicts him all grown up. He first appeared as a young boy and Winnie-the-Pooh’s friend in the books “Winnie-the-Pooh” and “The House at Pooh Corner” in the 1920s. Pooh’s other friends include Rabbit, Owl, Eeyore, Tigger, Roo, Piglet, John Cena, Pee Wee Herman and Harambe the Gorilla.
“Christopher Robin” stars Ewen McGregor picks up from “The House at Pooh Corner,” where we last saw Christopher say goodbye and head out into the vast world of Kardashians, Jiffy Lube and dangerous Youtube stunts like the “eating spoonfuls of cinnamon challenge.”
The movie depicts our hero as a full-grown adult who probably belongs to the Hair Club for Men, needs to lose 15 pounds and exercises only one day a week, although he tells everyone at work he works out 2 hours a day.
Well, what has he been doing all these years?
Did he start a tech company with an app that tells you when your toast is the precise level of burnt?
Did he travel the world, spending years at an ashram in India, eventually starting a chain called “Ashrams R Us?”
Did he leave a stable job to chase love with an on-the-run, bank-robbing, former stripper femme fatale?
Eh, he works in a luggage company.
Eventually, he runs into his old buddy Pooh as they sit on a park bench together. Well, hello, lad, where you been?
Turns out Pooh has been busy, too, doing Pooh stuff, like, collecting honey and doing that some more.
Together they head into the woods to smoke some really good homegrown, I mean meet up with their old friends-of-the-woods. They help him find his child-like enthusiasm and positive outlook by taking him to a Tony Robbins seminar, reading the work of Deepak Chopra while sitting in a circle and drinking Red Bull, and racing through the forest trees on a home-made zip line. That seems safe.
After bonding again, they all head to the city for the the grand opening of a Starbucks, drink a ton of Frappucinos and help Christopher Robin solve his main problem: how to convince his wife he is not insane by talking to small cartoon animals.
Four out five stars.
