Winnie the Pooh Movie Review

If you have young kids or are just a young kid at heart, you'll love the movie that just came out in the theaters called Winnie the Pooh. The beauty of Winnie the Pooh is that it is short (69 minutes) which is the perfect length for my little ones to sit down and not have their attention wander; it is sweet and old-fashioned which is a great change of pace from the modern day movies that are at times sour and filled with references to adult themes; it is creative and imaginative much like children are; and it is filled with the happy sense of irrelevant that I see all the time as my own children play.

Every week I read to my four children, and one of our favorite times is reading A.A. Milne's original stories of adventure and friendship- my kids enjoy the unique characters that live in the imagination of Christopher Robin- hyper Tigger, despondent Eeyore, blowhard Owl, Kanga and Roo, nervous Piglet, jumpy Rabbit, and above all Winnie the Pooh, a bear who is sweet and nice and who understands friendship and loyalty and the joy of a nice pot of honey.

My own kids play for hours using whatever they find in our house, mixing and matching toys of all kinds to make an adventure that is at times tough to follow- I listen in and play along sometimes and struggle, because the adventures don't seem at times to follow in a literal sense and there are sudden interludes of song and it almost seems at times if the plot has suddenly changed on me- and watching Winnie the Pooh felt like that and my kids loved it.

The rough plot is that Eeyore has lost his tail and the group has to help him find a new one, the first 20 minutes of the movie are giggle and laugh at loud fun, but it gets slow for a bit with the introduction of a new plot, that Christopher Robbins has been captured by a monster known as a Backsoon (spoiler alert: Owl misread the note about Robbins being back soon), but it ends with a sweet and fun ending that had my kids jumping and laughing about again.

My favorite scene was when Tigger wrestled the balloon- so funny. My kids favorite scenes included Pooh swimming in a honey pot, Eeyore with all the different kinds of tails, Piglet running from the 'monster' Backsoon, or Tigger and Eeyore singing about the monster Backsoon.

It is in the theaters right now- check it out. Rated G.

If you want to read your own Winnie the Pooh stories, follow this link here and make some memories with your children: The Complete Tales of Winnie-The-Pooh or Pooh Library original 4-volume set (Pooh Original Edition).