Review | Christopher Robin film review: Disney’s live-action Winnie the Pooh tale is as sweet as honey
A.A. Milne’s characters are brought vividly to life in this tale of a grown-up Christopher Robin, played by Ewan McGregor, who gets to reflect on a happy childhood long forgotten when Winnie the Pooh turns up in London
4/5 stars
Winnie the Pooh arrives for his second movie inside a year. The earlier film, Goodbye Christopher Robin , was about his creation by author A.A. Milne and the impact it had on his eponymous son. It was serious and sombre, and not really aimed at children.
This film is quite the opposite: heartfelt, charming and very, very funny. Plugging into the same fuzzy nostalgia as the Paddington movies, this is a film for kids big and small.
Directed by Marc Forster, who previously explored the life of Peter Pan creator J.M. Barrie in Finding Neverland, Christopher Robin is about a grown-up version of the titular character.
Played by Ewan McGregor, he’s no longer the boy who had tea with Pooh, Tigger, Piglet and the other animals in the Hundred Acre Wood. Rather he’s an overworked middle manager in a London luggage company who has lost his belief in imagination.
