History Film / ChristopherRobin

* DemotedToExtra: Rabbit, Kanga, Roo, and Owl suffer this, since they are relegated to only a few scenes and do not join the “expotition” into London. Rabbit and Roo are particularly notable, since the former is usually a part of the main cast of ''Pooh'' media (though he has been the most likely of the core five to get shafted or left out), and the latter enjoyed a large amount of spotlight in the 2000’s. Kanga in particular only gets a small handful of lines.

* AchievementInIgnorance: Most of Pooh's achievements, by his own admission, are the result of either doing nothing at all or just walking in a random direction.
* AdaptationalBadass: While not real, the Heffalumps and Woozles are given joy-eating, dream-stealing properties. In the books and cartoons, they just stole honey.

* AdaptationNameChange: Unlike the real Christopher Robin Milne and his counterpart in the original ''Pooh'' stories, "Robin" is Christopher's actual last name here.

-->'''Pooh:''' Did you let me go?\\

* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: Christopher Robin's solution to the company's money troubles is [[spoiler:to lower the prices on their products so more people could afford to buy them. While this isn't entirely unfeasible, the company was looking at cutting twenty percent of its costs, which means their profit margins would have to increase dramatically, and it's dubious if Christopher's plan could do that. Further, it was mentioned earlier that no one is going on vacation because they can't afford to, World War II just happened, and it's not like lowering the price of luggage is going to make a significant impact on the overall costs of planning a holiday]]. This trope may be considered permisable on account that the ''reasons'' for the company's struggles are a secondary plot point at best -- the real story of importance is the stress Christopher Robin is under from the job.
* AscendedFridgeHorror: This film is based on the idea of Christopher Robin growing up and its impact on Pooh and his friends, a concept that was only hinted at in previous works.
* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: This is the first Pooh project to ''ever'' get a PG rating despite previous movies getting a G rating and the cartoons being rated TV-Y. Then again, this isn't the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017 only time]] it's happened to a lighthearted franchise like this. The PG rating presumably comes from a 10 second clip showing Christopher Robin fighting in a battle in WWII, because there's nothing else that would definitely push it into PG territory.
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in Australia, where the film was rated G for "Very Mild Themes."

* BadBoss: Winslow Jr. is FauxAffablyEvil, kind of racist and misogynist, and determined to fire a significant fraction of the staff. How significant? Robin and his staff have been struggling mightily to pinch pennies and have managed to cut costs by 3%. Woozle demands ''twenty''.

* BigEater: Pooh, of course. He's always hungry for Hunny.

* ClothingReflectsPersonality: When we first meet Christopher as a child, he is wearing light-colored clothes. The change begins with his trip to boarding school, with a dark uniform, and after the TimeSkip to him as an adult, his wardrobe becomes darker and mostly grey and black, showing he lost his sense of childhood. As the film progresses, his wardrobe becomes progressively lighter [[spoiler: and in the final scene, he wears a red sweater vest to symbolize he's once again a child at heart.]]

** The opening scene is the last chapter of ''The House at Pooh Corner'', previously animated in ''The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh''. Pooh mentions that he's good at doing nothing and that he does nothing all day. Christopher Robin, who had begun attending school, asked Pooh to remember him when he grows up, because grown-ups will have to do 'nothing'.

** Christopher Robin discovers that Owl’s treehouse has fallen over “again”, much like it did in ''Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day''.
** The third act involves Pooh and his friends venturing out of the Hundred Acre Wood to save Christopher from what they believe to be a monster, just like in ''WesternAnimation/PoohsGrandAdventure''. This time, though, Pooh misinterprets it because Christopher Robin directly told him he would be eaten by a Woozle if he lost his work papers (a simplified way of telling Pooh if he lost the papers, he loses his job thanks to his boss Winslow), meaning that ''Pooh'' takes Owl’s place of mistakenly sending them on an adventure.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Giles Winslow, Jr. wants to cut down company cost by 20% and he suggests getting rid of the entire Efficiency Department. While it is not entirely unreasonable for a business to do so, it's later revealed [[spoiler:that Winslow, Jr. was playing golf all weekend instead of helping Christopher balance out the budget and present it before the company board]]. Once this is revealed, everyone present calls him out.
* CoveringForTheNoise: Often when Pooh spoke to a person besides Christopher, Christopher would have to cover it up by speaking quickly over him. However, when his annoying neighbor spotted him carrying Pooh in his coat, he had to pretend Pooh was a sick cat. When Pooh started talking, he insisted it was his own voice, just changed to sound like Pooh's.
* CrankyNeighbor: Inverted with Christopher Robin's neighbor. He's a nice guy who just wants to be Christopher's friend, and enjoy a good game of gin rummy. He's only an irritant because Christopher is all work and no play, and he's only a problem to the plot because Christopher doesn't dare let him see Pooh.
* DadTheVeteran: Christopher is this to Madeline, having served in World War II. Just like the real Christopher Robin Milne, who was a sapper in the British Army for the entire duration of the war. Sadder when you realize that Christopher was aware that he was going to be a father, as Evelyn is visibly pregnant as she sees him off, but he doesn't get to meet his own child until she's already three years old.

* DownerBeginning: While the opening has the whimsy and fun wordplay of the classic stories as Pooh and friends throw Christopher Robin a party, it's a goodbye party as he's being shipped off to boarding school. It only goes downhill from there, as we see over the credits how he grows up — he's abused at a BoardingSchoolOfHorrors, he learns of his father's death while there, and is eventually shipped to the front lines of World War II. The only bright spot is him meeting Evelyn (and even that has a sour point to it, as they conceive Madeline only for Christopher to be drafted and sent to war, missing ''her entire infancy'' and much of her life as a toddler).
* DumbassHasAPoint: Swapping Christopher's paperwork for 100 Acre Wood mementos might have been an impulsive decision on Tigger's part, but he isn't exactly wrong about how Christopher's memory of them has real importance.

* TheEeyore: Eeyore, of course! He finds the dark side of almost every situation, right? Nope. He actually sees the bright side of a few situations, like making friends with a bucket he got stuck in, and thanking Christopher Robin for kidnapping him.

'''Old Man Winslow''': Has he? [[LampshadeHanging Let's address the Heffalump in the room,]] shall we? What were you doing this weekend, Giles?\\

* EyesNeverLie: This was how Pooh was able to recognize Christopher Robin.

* FisherKingdom: "It's always a sunny day when Christopher Robin comes to play". 100 Acre Woods appears to respond to Christopher's despair, growing dark and foggy, then reflects his reconnection with his childhood, becoming sunny and colorful.

* TheForeignSubtitle: In Brazil, the movie is known as "Christopher Robin - Um Reencontro Inesquecível". (An Unforgettable Reunion)
* GenerationXerox: Christopher's daughter Madeline turns out to be just as fun-loving and adventurous as her father was when he was her age. It’s why she strikes up an instant friendship with Pooh and friends. She also has long hair like her mother, and it's partway between Evelyn's brunette and Christopher's redhead.

* GrowingUpSucks: Christopher Robin has a real bad case of this. He has a wife and daughter whom he loves very much, but his demanding boss forces him to come to the office on a weekend and skip out on a planned family getaway, much to his daughter's disappointment. Then he finds out that his boss wants to cut 20% of the workforce and he's to be the hatchet man. Christopher Robin protests saying that he promised his workers good jobs, but his boss won't budge.

* KickTheDog: When Christopher nearly loses his work documents, he goes on a rant at Pooh for reentering his life and messing everything up. Pooh meekly apologizes, but Christopher even calls him a “bear of very little brain” with absolutely none of the trademark warmth the saying is known for.
* KidHeroAllGrownUp: Christopher Robin is now over 40 years old (Ewan [=McGregor=] is 46) and married.

* MacGuffin: Pooh's balloon.

* MamaBear: When Christopher Robin finds the rest of Pooh's friends hiding. Some are clearly frightened at first, and Kanga (while not showing signs of aggressiveness) is seen protecting Roo in her pouch.

* MeaningfulName: The name Winslow sounds similar to ''[[WickedWeasel weasel]]'', which in turn sounds like Woozle. Winslow, Jr. is a CorruptCorporateExecutive who puts all the work on Christopher Robin while he [[spoiler:goes off golfing]]. [[spoiler:This is how Christopher Robin is able to get the point across to Pooh of why he needs his papers (by saying that Winslow Jr. is a Woozle who would eat him if he doesn't have them) and what sparks Pooh and his friends to travel to London with Madeline when they realize that Tigger didn't put those important papers back in his bag.]]

** This is not the first time Pooh and friends have entered the “real” world and had misadventures; on several occasions in ''The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh'', the gang would interact with the real world and people besides Christopher Robin. In “Pooh Day Afternoon”, the characters also found themselves having some vehicular mayhem.

** The main trailer spells out most of the plot up to Christopher Robin’s reconciliation with Pooh, but implies that a bulk of the film will focus on Pooh and friends journeying into the real world to save Christopher Robin. The trailers don’t mention that they’re trying to return Christopher Robin’s work papers to him, and this plot is only the last act of the film.
** The main trailer also suggests that Christopher Robin quickly agrees to help Pooh find his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. It doesn’t reveal that it takes quite a bit of cajoling for Christopher Robin to go to the Wood and he’s far from enthusiastic even when he does go.

** Rabbit and Owl are portrayed as a real, living rabbit and owl living amongst the stuffed animals. Similarly, [[spoiler:Heffalumps in Christopher Robin’s nightmare are portrayed as very realistic looking elephants with no anthropomorphism, albeit with oversized tusks to look more frightening.]]
** Tigger's design stands out among the group as being a little unusual in a few respects. Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore have all been designed to look like worn out stuffed animal versions of their pre-Disney counterparts. Tigger, on the other hand, keeps his very distinctive Disney head shape, and for some reason, his stripes are even ''more'' faded than his original stuffed animal (although like all the original designs and unlike Disney, his hands are plush stumps with no thumb).

* OldFriend: Pooh was Christopher's friend during his childhood, and comes back at him in adulthood.
* OnlySaneMan: Pooh is the only one in the Hundred Acre Wood who recognizes Christopher Robin as an adult.
* PromotionToParent: When Pooh turns up in London and reunites with Christopher Robin, their dynamic becomes something akin to this. While Pooh has been around since Christopher’s childhood, he’s still very naïve and innocent like a child, whereas Christopher is a mature grown man. Thus, Christopher finds himself exasperatedly trying to hide Pooh’s existence from other people, and even chides Pooh for playing a game on a train while he’s trying to work. Nonetheless, the positive part of this trope is very much in play since Christopher ''immediately'' becomes protective of Pooh and clearly cares about him deeply even after all these years.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Christopher's main problem may not actually be that he works too hard or grew up too fast, but rather that he's forgotten how to properly talk to people. As a child, he was the one who explained things to Pooh and helped make sense of confusing subject; as an adult he only ever gives half-explanations and gets exasperated when others don't immediately get what he means. While this is occasionally played for laughs with Pooh and friends ComicallyMissingThePoint, it also causes a lot of trouble and unnecessary heartache in his life. He could have told Evelyn and Madeline that people's jobs were on the line and that was why he had to spend the weekend working; instead he just half-heartedly repeats Mr Winslow's words about dreams not being free and nothing coming from nothing. The result is that he accidentally makes himself feel colder and more work-obsessed than he really is and causes tensions and hurt feelings that ''could'' have been avoided if he'd just explained his situation properly.
* RapidFireNo: By Christopher when he wakes up the following morning after meeting all his friends and realizes he's late for work. He does another earlier when reuniting with Pooh and thinks he's hallucinating.

* RealIsBrown: Unusual for a Disney and Pooh film, all of the colors are very desaturated to emphasize the depressing reality of what it means to grow up and lose your innocence — even Pooh looks worn and depressed. It's a deliberate example of this trope, as the opening of the film has a brighter, more vibrant color palette, as do the Hundred Acre Wood scenes when Christopher reconciles with his old friends. Even so, the characters themselves were designed to resemble actual plush toys whose fur has faded and pilled with age.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Old Man Winslow turns out to be this; he's a bit hard-nosed and curt, and isn't particularly impressed with Christopher's abandoning of the meeting (or the fact that his briefcase is full of acorns and an Eeyore tail). But once things settle down a bit, he gives Christopher's ideas respectful consideration, shows appropriate disapproval of his son's feckless laziness, and displays a more good-humoured attitude than he initially seemed to possess.

* SmashCut: During the farewell party scene at the beginning when Tigger has a sugar rush from the cake:

* TalkingInYourSleep: Eeyore mutters "saddle's too tight" in his sleep.

* TheseHandsHaveKilled: In response to Pooh's warm declaration that "You are Christopher Robin.", our hero sadly chokes out "I'm not a hero, Pooh, I'm lost." and bitterly weeps like a child as he holds tight onto his old friend, implied to be partially out of having lost another chunk of his innocence in World War II.
* ThisCannotBe: Christopher Robin's initial reaction to Pooh appearing in his world is "This can't be happening!"
* TookALevelInKindness: Christopher is still a good man, just broken by abuse and war, driven to cynicism and overwork. Pooh and the others from Hundred Acre Woods have to remind him what happiness is, making him a kinder man.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Pooh's unending quest for honey is what sets the plot in motion when in his search for it, he notices all his friends are missing. Piglet's love of haycorns also plays a small role once Christopher Robin returns to the Hundred Acre Woods.

* TraumaCongaLine: Christopher Robin gets sent to a BoardingSchoolOfHorrors where his imagination is beaten out of him, his father dies while he's away from home, [[MeetCute he meets]] [[HopeBringer his wife]], and then gets sent away to [[WarIsHell fight in WWII]] and misses the first three years of his daughter's life, only to return to a job where he has to cut corners on behalf of a {{Jerkass}} woozle of a boss. By the time we properly meet him, Christopher is a walking wound.

** Expectedly Rabbit is a bit prickly tempered with the group. Less expectedly, his grievances tend to be less with Pooh or Tigger like usual and more with Owl (who has bickered with Rabbit in earlier works but far less often).

* WatsonianVersusDoylist: Half the inhabitants of 100 Acre Woods can't go to London... for reasons. Animating that many characters would cost a ''lot'' of money. Also script and stuff.

* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Christopher is called into an emergency weekend meeting and forced to skip an outing with his wife and daughter, much to his daughter's disappointment. When Pooh Bear comes to him for help, Christopher Robin realizes how important his family is to him and decides to go join them at the cottage.
* YouCanTalk: Madeline Robin's general reaction to Pooh and the others at first. "Y-You're talking!"

* MarketBasedTitle: The French title is ''Jean-Christophe and Winnie''. Christopher has always been named "Jean-Christophe" in Disney's French translations for some reason. Winnie the Pooh is very well known, but Christopher's family name is rarely if ever mentioned in the French dubs of the franchise (though the Milne books call him "Christophe Robin").

* VocalEvolution: Pooh's and Tigger's voices (both provided by Creator/JimCummings, who has voiced Pooh in particular for over thirty years) have clearly aged after all these years.

* Creator/JimCummings as the voice of Winnie-the-Pooh and Tigger

* TheseHandsHaveKilled: In response to Pooh's warm declaration that "You are Christopher Robin.", our hero sadly chokes out "No, I'm no longer the same person I was, I'm lost." and bitterly weeps like a child as he holds tight onto his old friend, implied to be partially out of having lost another chunk of his innocence in World War II.

* SpiritualSuccessor:
** To ''Film/{{Hook}}'', a story about a hero who once explored a fantastical world as a young boy, then decided to leave it and grow up in the normal world while missing out on his kids' childhoods. Said hero is pushed to recover his once-vivid imagination to overcome obstacles. Moreover, ''Christopher Robin'' is a movie sequel to a beloved classic work of children literature.
** The same could be said for ''Film/ReturnToOz'' or Tim Burton’s ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'', which sees the Hundred Acre Wood turned into a dark, bleak place compared to its original glory.
** The film can also be seen as the true successor to ''Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin''. Both films contend with the concept of Christopher Robin growing up and its effect on his childhood friends he has to leave behind, but whereas ''Pooh's Grand Adventure'' mostly focused on whether Pooh and friends would be able to live their lives without Christopher and their immediate reaction to the prospects of it, this film shows the long-term consequences of the inevitable head-on.

** Rabbit states to his friends that [[Film/JurassicPark Heffalumps can't see them if they don't move]].

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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Christopher's solution of paying the employees more and giving them vacation days models Henry Ford's decision to pay his workers well enough that they could buy the cars they were making. It's good marketing! And for Christopher, it's an opportunity to be kind.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Christopher Robin promises that he will not forget about his childhood toys, but the stress and pressure of adulthood catches up to him and, with other things on mind, he does exactly that.
** The bear from your childhood appears and starts talking? Christopher Robin assumes he has "cracked" from the stress of his job.
** Now being a grown man, Christopher Robin can't quite fit through the tree entrance to the Hundred Acre Wood that he used as a child.
** And in a spiritual sense too, now potentially having the blood of men forever staining his hands in World War II, Christopher may never ''truly'' fit in the joy and innocence of the Hundred Acre Wood again.
** While Pooh's antics are amusing to his friends and the audience, to an overstressed Christopher Robin, they are a major annoyance and frustration. After Pooh nearly causes him to lose important work documents, he finally loses his patience as he recovers them and blows up at Pooh.
** Stuffed toys on someone's windshield, no matter how adorable, will majorly impair that driver's vision.
** Not everyone will accept an abnormal event such as animate, talking stuffed animals at first sight. Christopher is forced to keep an oblivious Pooh in "nap time" to avoid being caught, Tigger's hyperactivity freaks out a driver and causes him to crash, and even Christopher's own family is initially skeptical and afraid.
** In a less serious sense, Christopher is frantic when he sees Eeyore being dragged to the edge of the waterfall, but when he jumps in to perform a rescue, he's surprised to discover that the water only comes up to his ankles. Then he remembers that he's grown taller while the Wood has stayed the same, and he could have just waded in at any time.

** It's also perhaps worth noting that while [[spoiler: ''international'' travel declined in post-war Britain for obvious reasons, people weren't just staying at home all the time; the post-war period actually saw a bit of a boom in people going on holiday to locations ''within'' Britain (in particular, the classic "seaside holiday" and holiday camps such as Butlins and Pontins really started to take off around the time the movie is set), largely because they were cheaper and easier for most people to get to. It's suggested that the company have previously focussed more on selling luxury luggage designed for wealthy people going on long international cruises and the like, and so have overlooked the fact that even people just going on a weekend to Blackpool, Whitley Bay or the Norfolk Broads still need something to carry their clothes in.]]

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Averted. While naturally borrowing a lot from the Disney canon, there's far more {{Mythology Gag}}s and characteristics taken from the original novels. Pooh's mellow and philosophical side is demonstrated more here over the chipper KindheartedSimpleton he is in most Disney works, Eeyore is more sarcastic, Rabbit clashes with Owl more than Tigger, Kanga is more childlike and foolish like everyone else. Everyone but Pooh, Tigger and Eeyore are also given British accents to reflect the book's origin.

* TruerToTheText: Piglet is depicted with a green sweater like in the original Milne books as opposed to the pink one he gained in the Disney adaptations.

* {{Disneyfication}}: A moderated one, since the film really pulls ''no'' punches with the AscendedFridgeHorror of Christopher Robin growing up, losing his innocence and becoming detached from his imaginary friends (especially during the periods of war and struggling economics). It does however add on a HappyEnding to it all, showing Christopher Robin will eventually reunite with Pooh and the others, something which is left completely ambiguous and doubtful in the original works.

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Averted. While naturally borrowing a lot from the Disney canon, there's far more {{Mythology Gag}}s and characteristics taken from the original novels. Pooh's mellow and philosophical side is demonstrated more here over the chipper KindheartedSimpleton he is in most Disney works, Eeyore is more sarcastic, Kanga is more childlike and foolish like everyone else. Everyone but Pooh, Tigger and Eeyore are also given British accents to reflect the book's origin.

* WhatTheHellHero: Christopher yells at Pooh for not actually looking at the compass, and instead following their own footsteps. This leads to Pooh disappearing and Christopher falling into the Heffalumps and Woozles trap, and Christopher having his not quite HeelRealization about GrowingUpSucks.

* GenerationXerox: Christopher's daughter Madeline turns out to be just as fun-loving and adventurous as her father was when he was her age. It’s why she strikes up an instant friendship with Pooh and friends.