EVERYONE BACK TO HUNDRED ACRE WOOD
FIND an evening when the whole family is in and slide Christopher Robin (PG) into the player, because the DVD, out this week, is a perfect one to select and stage a sofa sit-in.
Now an adult, Christopher Robin (Ewan McGregor) is working as an efficiency expert at a luggage company, managed by the demanding Giles Winslow Jr (Mark Gatiss).
He is married to an architect named Evelyn (Hayley Atwell) and has a daughter, Madeline (Bronte Carmichael), whom he plans to send to the same boarding school he went to as a young boy.
Everything seems perfect and planned to the nth degree… until Giles tells Christopher that they must lay off 20% of the employees and that he must do the paperwork to arrange it and turn it in by Monday – in spite of the fact that Christopher has planned a weekend getaway to the countryside with his wife and daughter.
After telling Evelyn about the task at hand, she warns the weary
Christopher that his life is happening before him and he needs to face that, while she and Madeline head off on their break.
Then Christopher Robin receives a surprise visit from his old childhood pal, Winnie-the-Pooh. With Christopher’s help, Pooh embarks on a journey to find his friends – Tigger, Eeyore, Owl, Piglet, Rabbit, Kanga and Roo and, once reunited, the lovable bear and the gang travel to the big city to help Christopher rediscover the joy of life.
Fun and hugely heartwarming, Christopher Robin, £9.99, is one to warm the cockles of the heart.