Sunday, December 30, 2012

Winnie the Pooh (2011)

Walt Disney Pictures
Directed by Stephen J. Anderson and Don Hall
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Starz)

Disney revisits the make-believe world of Christopher Robin in this imaginative, if breezy, film. The look of the classic Pooh movie and books is captured perfectly by the hand-drawn animation. A rather plotty and episodic story is the weak link: it starts off as a search for Eeyore's missing tail, then a note from Christopher Robin is misinterpreted, leading to the group's attempt to capture a fictional monster called the "backson". Pooh gives up a chance for honey to return Eeyore's tail, which provides the only "lesson" of the movie: putting his friend before his self, although he gets rewarded with a giant pot of honey afterwards. Pretty weak. Nonetheless, there are some fun moments: like the wordplay with piglet and his "knots", Pooh's honey fantasy sequence and the way the words from the story are incorporated into the setting.

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