[wpdevart_youtube]0URpDxIjZrQ[/wpdevart_youtube] CHRISTOPHER ROBIN ***
Dir: Marc Forster (PG, 106 mins)
A.A. Milne’s cuddly creation Winnie The Pooh is being re-invented to create another honey money-making pot for Disney. Last year’s Goodbye Christopher Robin, not sanctioned by Disney, focused on the human cost of being the child in Milne’s stories, and Milne’s own post-traumatic stress. This however, is pure fantasy as Ewan McGregor plays a grown-up Christopher who has lost his way. Blending live-action and CGI, this has McGregor reconnecting with Pooh and finding his friends Eeyore Piglet, Kanga, Tigger and Owl and the magic of Hundred Acre Wood all over again. In a canny move, the animals then come back to Christopher Robin’s world in an attempt to help him be happier both in his work and family life. Hayley Attwell plays Christopher’s wife Evelyn, Mark Gatiss his boss while the likes of Jim Cummings, Peter Capaldi, Sophie Okenado, Nick Mohammed and Toby Jones provide the voices for the much-loved creatures. Hopefully more than a cynical money-making exercise with some vestige of charm, but this could be unbearably twee. Opens August 17