8/10
A sweet, charming, witty and sensible family movie
31 August 2018
With further success of the live-action adaptations of Cinderella, The Jungle Book, and Beauty and the Beast; Christopher Robin clearly doesn't disappoint everyone with a delightful and sweet story with a timeless classic of life-lessons that has been told in other films, along with a exceptional and sensible performances, remarkable CGI and animation as well a terrific musical score. Furthermore, the themes and quality of Christopher Robin also draws similarity with Paddington, Hook (in which the story quality and perspective to this film makes it better), Mary Poppins and Where the Wild Things Are.

Much of the exceptional and sensible performances lies within Ewan McGregor's portrayal of the titular character in which he nails the acting very well with comedy and drama. Even the newcomer Bronte Carmichael performance of the titular character's daughter makes the film more interesting. But what really makes a stand-out within this film was the classic voice performances of Jim Cummings as Winnie the Pooh and Tigger, and Brad Garrett as Eeyore, along with the superb voice acting performances of Nick Mohammed as Piglet, Peter Capaldi as Rabbit, Sophie Okonedo as Kanga, and Toby Jones as Owl.

The minor issues and flaws that affected this film was the issue on the pacing, editing and the other supporting characters being underutilized or otherwise, placing the supporting characters in the background.

Despite the fact that Christopher Robin live-action adaptation isn't groundbreaking and mind-blowing in comparison to the other live-action adaptations by Disney, it is still a worthy film to be enjoyed by children and families.
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