Christopher Robin (aka new Winnie the Pooh movie)

[Kane52630]

Yeah I don't know about that. Double Toasted reviewed it a couple days ago and they were really mixed on it. They loved it when it got started, but as it went along they had a lot of issues with it. Their review is on youtube if you want to check it out.

 

[Evil Twin]

Clearly Disney is not expecting good reviews. If they were, they would be getting the word out.

I am very curious about what precisely are the issues. The actual message not matching the intended message? A lack of conflict? Too slight a story for the length of film? A lack of color and joy?

 

[terry78]

Hitting this after work tomorrow.

 

[smallville fan]

I was not expecting 67% for this.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/christopher_robin/

 

[NotNickFury]

61% now.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

 

[TheVileOne]

Clearly Disney is not expecting good reviews. If they were, they would be getting the word out.

I am very curious about what precisely are the issues. The actual message not matching the intended message? A lack of conflict? Too slight a story for the length of film? A lack of color and joy?

I didn't hate it at all, but what were people expecting here? This wasn't exactly Beauty and the Beast live action.

I would say the plot is very predictable. Also, the designs for Rabbit and Owl make no sense. They look more like realistic anthropomorphized animals while the other characters look like plushies come to life.

 

[Melpardus]

I didn't hate it at all, but what were people expecting here? This wasn't exactly Beauty and the Beast live action.

I would say the plot is very predictable. Also, the designs for Rabbit and Owl make no sense. They look more like realistic anthropomorphized animals while the other characters look like plushies come to life.

I'm pretty sure Rabbit and Owl were always portrayed as the only two real animals while the others were all stuffed toys come-to-life. They're not even among the original toy collection that inspired the stories as far as I'm aware.

 

[sueb1863]

Spoiler

A local reviewer said the movie just didn't click for him, and Pooh was a major downer of a character, almost as bad as Eeyore. The reviewer didn't like that the stuffed toys were interacting with characters other than Christopher Robin, he thought it should have been more clear that they were from his imagination rather than being 'real' and part of the outer world.

 

[Broseph44]

Can’t wait to see this eventually loved Winnie the Pooh as a kid.

 

[terry78]

Spoiler

A local reviewer said the movie just didn't click for him, and Pooh was a major downer of a character, almost as bad as Eeyore. The reviewer didn't like that the stuffed toys were interacting with characters other than Christopher Robin, he thought it should have been more clear that they were from his imagination rather than being 'real' and part of the outer world.

I mean I always assumed that was the case, even in the old Saturday morning cartoon. They're just magic or something. It's not a Calvin and Hobbes situation.

 

[jnmx2000]

Spoiler

A local reviewer said the movie just didn't click for him, and Pooh was a major downer of a character, almost as bad as Eeyore. The reviewer didn't like that the stuffed toys were interacting with characters other than Christopher Robin, he thought it should have been more clear that they were from his imagination rather than being 'real' and part of the outer world.

This is what I actually really liked about the movie, I felt my favorite parts of the movie was when

Spoiler

Pooh and Christopher were out in the real world and Christopher was trying to get Pooh to not talk to people because they'd freak out and think he was weird.

I actually loved the movie and thought it was spot on for the Pooh characters. My biggest complaint is something I also find to be it's greatest strength, it's so simple and that's a double edge sword for this film. This is a live action Winnie the Pooh movie and it doesn't do anything different from the cartoon we grew up on, it's just an adult version of a Winnie the Pooh movie.

 

[Abudefduf]

Spoiler

A local reviewer said the movie just didn't click for him, and Pooh was a major downer of a character, almost as bad as Eeyore. The reviewer didn't like that the stuffed toys were interacting with characters other than Christopher Robin, he thought it should have been more clear that they were from his imagination rather than being 'real' and part of the outer world.

I knew it.

Spoiler

I knew they were going to make Pooh & friends real... it's so stupid. The original movie made it quite clear that none of what was happening was real... it was just a kid playing with his toys.

Now they've turned Winnie the Pooh into a mix of Narnia and Toy Story. So dumb.

 

[terry78]

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/962939-christopher-robin-will-not-get-a-china-release


No China release. Rumor is that because their beloved leader has been compared to Pooh aesthetically.

 

[LucDisfilm19]

Interestingly, Christopher Robin has 63% rating with critics and a 92% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. It’s gonna be interesting to see how much Christopher Robin does over the weekend.

 

[LucDisfilm19]

Ok. So, it did a $1.5M opening Thursday night. That’s $200K higher than A Wrinkle in Time, which had a $33M OW and twice of what The BFG did ($740K Thursday night for a $19M OW). I’m curious to see how much it ends up with at the end of this weekend.

 

[terry78]

Just got out. I enjoyed it as I am a childhood Pooh fan as my parents gave me a Pooh themed room when I was little and that **** just kinda stuck, and my old stuffed bear is in my closet somewhere. It's a nice continuation of the original story where they give him the goodbye party and gets appropriately dark when we see what he has to deal with growing up. I will say Jim Cummings hasn't lost a step voicing Tigger and Pooh and Brad Garrett gets all the one liners as Eeyore. Some may find it a little too dreary at times but it's kinda the point.

 

[Melpardus]

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/962939-christopher-robin-will-not-get-a-china-release


No China release. Rumor is that because their beloved leader has been compared to Pooh aesthetically.

Oh yeah, this is a well known fact (that he's been compared to Winnie the Pooh and it gets on his nerves).

 

[Ozbridge]

67% RT, but 92% RT Audience score and A Cinemascore, so WoM will be fine.

 

[Kane52630]

I thought it was pretty good... the first 15 minutes was like a completely different movie (In a good way).

Still, Paddington 2 for my money wins the teddy bear battle.

 

[TheVileOne]

I'm pretty sure Rabbit and Owl were always portrayed as the only two real animals while the others were all stuffed toys come-to-life. They're not even among the original toy collection that inspired the stories as far as I'm aware.

Except here they are alive and like magical creatures from another dimension and they can interact with the real world around them. They aren't just imaginary stuffed toys come to life.

 

[Lencho01]

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/962939-christopher-robin-will-not-get-a-china-release


No China release. Rumor is that because their beloved leader has been compared to Pooh aesthetically.

This is hilarious.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

So CR came in at 24.6m for it's domestic OW.

It opened lower than it's tracking numbers which were in the vicinity of 30m. Pooh atm

 

[Drizzle]

I mean, was anyone really expecting a Winnie the Pooh movie to bust down the doors at the box office? This still made over three times as much as the last animated Pooh film did on its opening weekend back in 2011, but that one opened the same weekend as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II so of course that had no chance. The fact is, unlike other Disney properties like Beauty and the Beast or The Lion King, Winnie the Pooh really appeals mostly to little kids (the under 6 crowd) as opposed to all ages. If they don't have small children, the 18-35 crowd won't really care much about a Winnie the Pooh movie. Did I grow up with the original animated movies? Sure, but I don't feel an overly nostalgic need to go watch this one like I did for Beauty and the Beast or The Jungle Book live action films.

 

[LucDisfilm19]

So CR came in at 24.6m for it's domestic OW.

It opened lower than it's tracking numbers which were in the vicinity of 30m. Pooh atm

It has an A on CinemaScore though and 90% of audiences love it so as long as it makes it’s $75M budget back in America, it should be ok.