Now you've gotta understand something before we go forward with this news; I love Winnie The Pooh. The Many Adventures of Winnie The Pooh was the first movie I really adored, and its a feature that still holds up after all these years, with the ending getting even more powerful as I get older. His 2011 film, just titled Winnie The Pooh, was a charming as hell adventure that should have made waaaaaay more money that it garnered (why did people spend $100 million more on The Smurfs than Pooh in America alone?).
Even with all that said, I don't want someone reading this to think I'm pulling out the o'l "MY CHILDHOOD IS BEING RUINED" card. Kids deserve new quality Pooh tales in addition to old favorites, and if this new movie turns out to be good, awesome. But man, does the plot for this movie sound iffy. Deadline, who broke this scoop, notes that the film will concern Christopher Robin as an adult returning to the Hundred Acre-Wood, which bears such a shocking similarity to what I thought the plot of the 2016 Jungle Book remake would be (I was convinced that film would center on Mowgli returning to his jungle pals as an adult in order to stop supernatural forces or something) that I can't help but chuckle.
Obviously, this film is in it's most early stages, and it may never happen. But this really does have the potential to go off the rails, no denying that. Regardless, I'll always have my wonderful Winnie The Pooh movies, and if this new movie manages to provide similar memories and experiences for a new geenartion of kids, well, there's something to be said that.
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