Wayne_j
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We see the montage early on of Christopher leaving the Hundred Acre Wood, leaving his box of Pooh-related items under his bed and going to boarding school, where he is shown once-but likely not the only time-being reprimanded for his drawing in class. Multiply that reinforcement over years at school and he learned it was wrong to focus on those "child" things. So I understand it. And when he does go back home, he has an image to live up to for his parents and about what life should be.
That all works perfectly well if in fact they are toys. But with them being actual sentient animals, it's like abandoning a pet. The movie can't figure out if it wants to treat them as toys or animals, so tries to have it both ways and it doesn't work for m the way they portrayed it precisely because it's indecisive.
They could have gotten around this, maybe, if Pooh and friends had been for lack of a better word, frozen in time, or say, asleep (Sleeping Beauty like) until Madeline dug up Christopher's drawing. But they didn't; we're to believe that they've been living in the Hundred Acre Wood without aid from Christopher Robin for 30 years. And that's where it gets dicey for me that he would abandon living creatures, regardless of family pressure to do so.
I think the voice cast was great. They all sounded like the characters - I didn’t even realize who was who until the end credits.
And this dude is a fucking icon:
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