Sometimes when a story revolves around a childhood favorite, it renews your love for that story, and for childhood itself. Sometimes though, it just reminds you how old you’ve grown. Returning the Hundred Acre Wood and its inhabitants makes you feel a little bit of both these things when you sit down to watch Christopher Robin – on the one hand, you will find yourself humming “Winnie the Pooh” over and over to yourself, and feeling a little thrill when you realize that the score is humming it along with you. You will fall in love with the stuffed animal forms of the childhood favorites (no matter how creepy the commercials may have made them seem). But, on the other hand, you realize that you don’t need the movie to tell you it’s okay to be a kid, and you don’t quite believe it when the movie tries to tell you that connecting with that childish side is the solution to all of your problems. Sure, it it a sweet thought to have, but does life really wrap up that way? Maybe, but only when the Winnie the Pooh gang is animated.
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