History YMMV / ChristopherRobin

* In 2014, there was a [[https://www.mirf.ru/fun/funny/vinni-puh-dusherazdirayuschee-zrelische/ Russian article]] about what a movie might be like with a grown-up Robin who had forgotten his friends. Admittedly, it's a bit DarkerAndEdgier that the movie would be, and also strongly influenced by the [[Animation/VinniPukh Soviet adaptation]], but the basic idea is there.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: One [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2F7DGAqwrI TV spot]] uses the classic ''Winnie the Pooh'' theme, ''but as an epic orchestral piece.''

* JustHereForGodzilla: Let's all be honest here - ''no one'' saw this movie for the humans (bar dedicated fans of Creator/EwanMcGregor or Creator/HayleyAtwell), the established ''Winnie The Pooh'' characters just being here and themselves is the reason anyone is drawn to this movie.

** The main poster's tagline, "sooner or later your past catches up with you," being accompanied by the "obi" part of the title, in another joking demand by fans for Ewan [=McGregor=] to reprise the title role in an [[Franchise/StarWars Obi-Wan Kenobi]] standalone movie already.

* UncannyValley:
** Some people feel CGI Pooh looks... too creepy (his mouth hardly even moves in sync with his lines). May also count as CreepyCute, though. Especially when compared to Creator/SethMacFarlane's ''Film/{{Ted}}'' in which the CGI stuffed bear was much more fluent and realistic.
** [[https://images.indianexpress.com/2018/07/christopher-robin-759.jpg Tigger's eye style]] look can come off as this when looked up close, by virtue of combining some of his animated character's facial characteristics with the eyes of [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/The_original_Winnie_the_Pooh_toys.jpg the original Tigger toy]].

** Christopher Robin as well. He got sent to a BoardingSchoolFromHell then to WarIsHell and is struggling to cope with that while also trying to protect his employees from a CorruptCorporateExecutive in post-war London.

* PeripheryDemographic: Played with - the primary demographic of this film appears to be the ''inverse'' of the original Disney shorts. Plenty of people have grown up with Winnie-the-Pooh and still hold affection for him, which is reflected by having the story take place during Christopher Robin's adulthood.

** Given that the Disney cartoons typically set things in some type of American-type setting, many people would find it surprising that this movie is on the London area. This is a callback to how the original books are also set in the London area, but [[adaptation displacement]] is at play since the Pooh animated projects are more well known than the books they're based on.

** Given that the Disney cartoons typically set things in some type of American-type setting, many people would find it surprising that this movie is on the London area. This is a callback to how the original books are also set in the London area, but adaptation displacement is at play since the Pooh animated projects are more well known than the books they're based on.

** Some people feel CGI Pooh looks... too creepy (his mouth hardly even moves in sync with his lines). May also count as UglyCute, though. Especially when compared to Creator/SethMacFarlane's ''Film/{{Ted}}'' in which the CGI stuffed bear was much more fluent and realistic.

* AwesomeMusic: One [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2F7DGAqwrI TV spot]] uses the classic ''Winnie the Pooh'' theme, ''but as an epic orchestral piece.''

* WinTheCrowd: A lot of Pooh fans who were skeptical of the idea of this film were won over by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=425M4M3Opkk the first teaser]] as well as the fact that Creator/JimCummings reprises his roles as Pooh and Tigger.

** This isn't the first time we see Pooh and friends in live-action form with a real-world setting. Back in 2011, to promote the release of ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011'', Disney made a series of 7 shorts called ''A Winnie The Pooh Smackerel'', which features [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbGqaexHu6Q Pooh]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc5XriqD5PY and friends doing cute and fun things]], and before that, there was ''Series/TheBookOfPooh'', which depicts the Hundred Acre Wood gang as Jim Henson-esque puppets and even earlier then that, was ''Series/ReturnToPoohCorner'', which depicted Pooh and friends as costumed characters.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: Christopher got this reaction from some audiences and critics -- while he's certainly not meant to be unsympathetic, the film treats his situation as a standard WhenYouComingHomeDad plot a la ''Film/{{Hook}}'' and boils things down to Christopher simply needing to rediscover his childhood. The issue is that Christopher isn't simply overworking; he's effectively been saddled with protecting as many employees' jobs as possible while decreasing expenditures, meaning if he neglects his duties, many innocent people will lose their entire livelihoods. The fact that the film doesn't seem to recognize the urgency of this means you might find yourself taking Christopher's side against Evelyn and Pooh more than the film intends.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: Christopher got this reaction from some audiences and critics -- while he's certainly not meant to be unsympathetic, the film treats his situation as a standard WhenYouComingHomeDad plot a la ''Film/{{Hook}}'' and boils things down to Christopher simply needing to rediscover his childhood. The issue is that Christopher isn't simply overworking a job that he should realistically walk away; he's effectively been saddled with protecting as many employees' jobs as possible while decreasing expenditures, meaning if neglects his duties, many innocent people will lose their entire livelihoods. The fact that the film doesn't seem to recognize the urgency of this means you might find yourself taking Christopher's side against Evelyn and Pooh more than the film intends.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: Christopher got this reaction from some audiences and critics -- while he's certainly not meant to be unsympathetic, the film treats his situation as a standard WhenAreYouComingHomeDad plot a la ''Film/{{Hook}}'' and boils things down to Christopher simply needing to rediscover his childhood. The issue is that Christopher isn't simply overworking a job that he should realistically walk away; he's effectively been saddled with protecting as many employees' jobs as possible while decreasing expenditures, meaning if neglects his duties, many innocent people will lose their entire livelihoods. The fact that the film doesn't seem to recognize the urgency of this means you might find yourself taking Christopher's side against Evelyn and Pooh more than the film intends.

** This isn't the first time we see Pooh and friends in live-action form with a real-world setting. Back in 2011, to promote the release of ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011'', Disney made a series of 7 shorts called ''A Winnie The Pooh Smackerel'', which features [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbGqaexHu6Q Pooh]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc5XriqD5PY and friends doing cute and fun things]], and before that, there was ''Series/TheBookOfPooh'', which depicts the Hundred Acre Wood gang as Jim Henson-esque puppets and even earlier then that, was ''Return to Pooh Corner'', which depicted Pooh and friends as costumed characters.

** This isn't the first time Pooh and friends have stepped outside of the Hundred Arce Woods and interact with Christopher Robin's world as they would occassionally do so in ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' prior.

** This isn't the first time we see Pooh and friends in live-action form with a real-world setting. Back in 2011, to promote the release of ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011'', Disney made a series of 7 shorts called ''A Winnie The Pooh Smackerel'', which features [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbGqaexHu6Q Pooh]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc5XriqD5PY and friends doing cute and fun things]], and before that, there was ''Series/TheBookOfPooh'', which depicts the Hundred Acre Wood gang as Jim Henson-esque puppets.

* MoralEventHorizon:
** Giles Winslow Jr. crosses it when it's revealed that [[spoiler:he spent the weekend golfing instead of helping Christopher Robin work out the cost cutting at the company]]. It's here that it's revealed that the whole 'swimmer or sinker' spiel he gave to Christopher was nothing more than a manipulation tactic Winslow spun just to get someone else to do his work for him, all the while knowing full well that his own job security was almost assured because his father Winslow Sr. is the company founder. Quite mild compared to what you'd normally expect for this trope, but in the context of the franchise, that cemented Winslow's status as a villain.
** Christopher Robin himself believes he crossed it at some point during World War II, and even confesses as much to Pooh. [[TheseHandsHaveKilled Being forced to kill countless of your fellow humans]] can do that to you. More pointedly, he had lost a lot of innocence he will never truly be able to regain in full.

* {{Adorkable}}: Madeline has her moments, such as when she tied the red balloon to her racket and pretended she was playing at Wimbledon.

** This isn't the first time we see Pooh and friends in live-action form with a real-world setting. Back in 2011, to promote the release of ''Disney/WinnieThePooh'', Disney made a series of 7 shorts called ''A Winnie The Pooh Smackerel'', which features [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbGqaexHu6Q Pooh]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc5XriqD5PY and friends doing cute and fun things]], and before that, there was ''Series/TheBookOfPooh'', which depicts the Hundred Acre Wood gang as Jim Henson-esque puppets.

* NightmareFuel: Christopher Robin [[spoiler:getting himself lost deep in the 100 Acre Wood after his fight with Pooh]] makes the movie take a sudden turn into horror. Christopher even [[spoiler:believes they're Hefflalumps chasing after him, falls into a pit purposed to trap Heffalumps and gets knocked unconscious by a stray rock and almost drowns when the pit gets filled with rainwater, all while having a nightmare where a Heffalump appears in the water and drags him away with its trunk as he tries to escape it, all the while hearing voices that make it clear that this Heffalump is a metaphor for all of his all-too real troubles]].
** In the midst of correcting Pooh in how to say efficiency when Pooh had pronounced it as "a fish in the sea", Christopher turns around only to suddenly discover that Pooh has disappeared.
** The World War II scenes, brief as they are, brings some serious MoodWhiplash to a franchise such as Winnie the Pooh.

* CriticalDissonance: A mild case; the film has a mixed-to-positive critical reception (71% on Website/RottenTomatoes), but a strong 89% audience approval rating.