{"id":5252,"date":"2018-12-19T11:17:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T16:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/?p=5252"},"modified":"2022-10-25T16:15:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T20:15:32","slug":"winnie-the-pooh-disney-christopher-robin-2018-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/winnie-the-pooh-disney-christopher-robin-2018-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnie-the-Pooh is a labor reformer in Disney&#8217;s Christopher Robin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Given its sluggish pace, depressive tone, and dramatization of the origin of Paid Time Off for postwar UK laborers, whom exactly was the intended audience for <em>Christopher Robin<\/em>? Kids with premature midlife crises and uncommonly long attention spans? Adults with low vocabularies and an acceptance of brain-bending metaphysics? Think about it too hard, and it&#8217;s the stuff of nightmares as Robin&#8217;s (<a href=\"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/tag\/ewan-mcgregor\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"1863\">Ewan McGregor<\/a>) acid-flashbacks to his childhood fantasias come to life, not just for him but for the entire world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are no better models for the all-ages family film than <em>Paddington<\/em> and <em>Paddington 2<\/em>, full stop. It is possible to illuminate kids about immigration and judicial reform <em>and<\/em> yet still indulge in tasty pastries and runaway trains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given its sluggish pace, depressive tone, and dramatization of the origin of Paid Time Off for postwar UK laborers, whom exactly was the intended audience for Christopher Robin? Kids with premature midlife crises and uncommonly long attention spans? Adults with low vocabularies and an acceptance of brain-bending metaphysics? Think about it too hard, and it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,2],"tags":[1700,1270,1863,1862],"class_list":["post-5252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2-stars","category-movies","tag-1700","tag-disney","tag-ewan-mcgregor","tag-winnie-the-pooh"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/christopher-robin.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9lhB-1mI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5828,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dreadful-jack-the-giant-slayer-is-soullessly-engineered-escapism\/","url_meta":{"origin":5252,"position":0},"title":"The dreadful Jack the Giant Slayer is soullessly engineered escapism","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"July 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Director Bryan Singer's Jack the Giant Slayer is almost unbearably dreadful. 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