Christopher Robin

Having enjoyed the Winnie the Pooh books by AA Milne - The House at Pooh Corner and Winnie the Pooh - when I was a child and having read them to my children, I borrowed the DVD of the new Disney film, Christopher Robin, which was recently shown in cinemas.

In the film Christopher Robin, now grown up, is played by Ewan McGregor. He lives with his wife and daughter  but is too busy with work to enjoy time with them. When he stays home, while the family have retreated to the cottage near the Hundred Acre Wood, Christopher Robin is surprised to find Winnie the Pooh alone in the park across the road from where he now lives. Christopher Robin decides to take the bear back to the wood and then return to London for an important meeting but a series of events occur disrupting his original plans. Needless to say Christopher Robin eventually realises that there is more to life than work.

This is meant to be a children's film but I suspect that the adults watching it may enjoy the film more than children. The film has its entertaining moments but I definitely prefer the world created in the original stories.

There have been a number of books including biographies about the life of A A Milne and his family. Another recent British film documenting the affect of the publicity surrounding the Winnie-the-Pooh books and their creator's family was Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017).

Christopher Robin gives Pooh an update - review - Sydney Morning Herald 14 September 2018
Goodbye Christopher Robin review - Sydney Morning Herald 22 November 2017