Winnie the Pooh: Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin is the best Winnie Movie ever made.
Since its release in 1997, Pooh's Grand Adventure has haunted movie goers with its interlocking story lines that build up the grand scope that is the Pooh Cinematic Universe. It's somber and at times darker theme can appeal to younger and older audiences alike. What sets Pooh's Grand Adventure apart from the rest of the franchise is that this isn't a story based around a gimmick or a newly introduced antagonist. No, this story, is about the characters.
Time and time again, David Warner has should just how powerful plot told through visuals and character interaction can be. Every single character, Piglet to Rabbit, has a time to shine in this movie. Whether it's Eeyore learning about trust, or Tigger learning that his strength comes not from the size of his spring, but of the size of his heart, every character develops in their own way. Now with these kind of movies, you can really only tell two kinds of stories, an adventure to make a new friend, or an adventure to better build a bond between characters. Pooh's Grand Adventure breaks the formula by not telling a story of how friends come together, but rather of how they come apart. Of course the movie begins with Christopher Robin leaving Pooh to go to school, this of course is hurtful to Pooh because he does not know where his friend has gone, he thinks he has abandoned him. Pooh rounds up his bravest, wisest, and toughest friends, being Piglet, Rabbit, Tigger, and Eeyore. There adventure takes them all across the map, even beyond the hundred acre wood. Along the way, the friends come across obstacles that they cannot overcome on their own, but instead of working together with the cliche power of friendship, the friends take the surprising, if not realistic, conclusion that their friends are weighing them down.
This is where Pooh's Grand Adventure really shines, our beloved characters are at their lowest at the climax of the movie, for the first time, not even Pooh had hope. That makes the end of Pooh's adventure and the reunion with Christopher Robin that more satisfying to see. Winnie just never gets old.
Since its release in 1997, Pooh's Grand Adventure has haunted movie goers with its interlocking story lines that build up the grand scope that is the Pooh Cinematic Universe. It's somber and at times darker theme can appeal to younger and older audiences alike. What sets Pooh's Grand Adventure apart from the rest of the franchise is that this isn't a story based around a gimmick or a newly introduced antagonist. No, this story, is about the characters.
Time and time again, David Warner has should just how powerful plot told through visuals and character interaction can be. Every single character, Piglet to Rabbit, has a time to shine in this movie. Whether it's Eeyore learning about trust, or Tigger learning that his strength comes not from the size of his spring, but of the size of his heart, every character develops in their own way. Now with these kind of movies, you can really only tell two kinds of stories, an adventure to make a new friend, or an adventure to better build a bond between characters. Pooh's Grand Adventure breaks the formula by not telling a story of how friends come together, but rather of how they come apart. Of course the movie begins with Christopher Robin leaving Pooh to go to school, this of course is hurtful to Pooh because he does not know where his friend has gone, he thinks he has abandoned him. Pooh rounds up his bravest, wisest, and toughest friends, being Piglet, Rabbit, Tigger, and Eeyore. There adventure takes them all across the map, even beyond the hundred acre wood. Along the way, the friends come across obstacles that they cannot overcome on their own, but instead of working together with the cliche power of friendship, the friends take the surprising, if not realistic, conclusion that their friends are weighing them down.
This is where Pooh's Grand Adventure really shines, our beloved characters are at their lowest at the climax of the movie, for the first time, not even Pooh had hope. That makes the end of Pooh's adventure and the reunion with Christopher Robin that more satisfying to see. Winnie just never gets old.