{"id":1301,"date":"2018-11-06T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T22:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2018-11-02T20:16:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T02:16:13","slug":"movie-christopher-robin-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/06\/movie-christopher-robin-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Christopher Robin (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/a\/a9\/Christopher_Robin_poster.png\" alt=\"Christopher Robin\" width=\"220\" height=\"326\" \/>Christopher Robin<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2018<br \/>\nRating: PG<br \/>\nLength: 104 minutes \/ 1.73 hours<\/p>\n<p>Tell me if you\u2019ve heard this one before: a child from a famous story grows up into a businessman who doesn\u2019t have time for his family but eventually comes to face his lack of work\/life balance by revisiting the fantastical world of his childhood. If you thought this was the plot of\u00a0<em>Hook<\/em>\u00a0(1991), you\u2019d be right. Unfortunately, it is also the almost-identical plot to the\u00a0<em>Winnie the Pooh<\/em>\u00a0sequel,\u00a0<em>Christopher Robin<\/em>\u00a0(2018). I\u2019d forgive its unoriginality only if I knew who the audience for it was. Is it a morality tale for overworked parents? Is it a lesson for kids to never take work seriously? I honestly don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>I will say that Disney did a good job bringing the stuffed animals of the original story to life in this live-action adaptation, except that I was pretty shocked to find out that Rabbit (Peter Capaldi) and Owl (Toby Jones) were actual animals, and not of the stuffed variety. I suppose that\u2019s bound to happen when the leap to live-action happens. The musical cues to the original song for\u00a0<em>Winnie the Pooh<\/em>\u00a0were a nice nostalgic touch, even if kids who haven\u2019t seen the original wouldn\u2019t necessarily know the reference.<\/p>\n<p>What was weird to me was how this film was shot. It would probably only take a few hours for a talented editor with a suite of creepy music to turn this movie into a horror thriller (with all the jump scares to go with it). I get that there\u2019s this sense of death after Christopher Robin (Ewan McGregor) was away from the Hundred Acre Wood for so long, but maybe don\u2019t dwell on it so long . . . the children are scared and crying.<\/p>\n<p>An unoriginal and semi-odd take on a beloved children\u2019s classic, I give\u00a0<em>Christopher Robin<\/em>\u00a02.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a01\/2<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Robin Year: 2018 Rating: PG Length: 104 minutes \/ 1.73 hours Tell me if you\u2019ve heard this one before: a child from a famous story grows up into a businessman who doesn\u2019t have time for his family but eventually comes to face his lack of work\/life balance by revisiting the fantastical world of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,2],"tags":[1020,90,1549,6,1551,89,13,8,1550],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-5-stars","category-movie","tag-1020","tag-adaptation","tag-christopher-robin","tag-disney","tag-hook","tag-live-action","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-winnie-the-pooh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1303,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions\/1303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}