Perfect cast and a good story

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

While not entirely perfect, this film is one that I will definitely watch again.It had strange resonances for me personally, as my grandmother was a famous and celebrated author, who used me as inspiration for several of her children's books, and also as a subject for one of her academic books for adults.During my early childhood, I spent many happy days playing imaginative games with my grandmother - always followed around by a photographer - and those games became the basis for her stories, with the photographs of me used to illustrate them. At the time I was quite happy about this, as it made me feel special, but I am now very well aware that I was being exploited.Like Christopher Robin, I was never asked permission to be in her books, nor was I ever paid (although I inherited a modest amount of money when she died, so I suppose that could be considered payment of sorts).Unlike Christopher Robin, I never resented the books I was in, and I never felt that my childhood memories had been stolen or commercialised. But my situation was never as drastic as his, and my grandmother's celebrity didn't even come close to that of A.A. Milne. However, there are enough parallels to have given me a few shivers while watching this movie.Others have commented on its excellence, so I won't belabour that point, except to say that I agree. As a film it is beautifully crafted and (for me anyway) endlessly re-watchable.I disagree with the negative comments about the stilted acting. If anything I felt they needed to be more stilted to be properly true to the period. I do agree that Margo Robbie's accent was uneven, but performance-wise I felt she did very well in what was perhaps the hardest role to perform convincingly.As others have mentioned, the best performances came from the two boys playing Christopher Robin, although I also particularly liked Stephen Campbell Moore's understated warmth, and - for the first time in her career- I actually found myself liking Kelly Macdonald, an actress who has irritated me in every other film in which I've seen her. Here she exudes warmth and tenderness, and in a well-pitched and technically difficult performance manages to display undercurrents of disapproval and sympathy to the audience without over-egging the pudding.The cinematography by Ben Smithard also bears special mention, bringing to the screen a subtle yet richly evocative atmosphere of nostalgia and childhood innocence without sacrificing realism or becoming overly stylised.In fact, one of this film's many technical merits is the fine balance it achieves between all its various flavours and ingredients; each one subtle and understated, yet combining to create a rich and satisfying whole.As an overall viewing experience it has much to recommend it, and very little about which to complain.

My wife and I watched this movie at home on DVD from our public library. I'll admit I didn't know much about Christopher Robin and the stories with his stuffed animals come to life. And after watching this movie I still don't but I have something even more interesting, the family and situations that spawned the characters and the books which have become famous world-wide.A. A. Milne, played very well by age-appropriate Domhnall Gleeson, was already a successful author living in London. After his experience on the front lines in WW1 he became keen on privacy and really wanted to write something that would motivate all countries of the world to never go to war again. He eventually wrote something but that is only a sidebar to the story here.In 1925 he bought a cottage in the woods on 100 acres of land south of London, saying it would help inspire him to write. But he seemed stuck, working on projects around the house instead of writing. By this time his son, Christopher Robin Milne, was 4 or 5 and by fortune the wife and nanny both left for a time stranding dad and son in the remote home.It proved very fortuitous as dad really got to know his son for the first time and through games they played in the forest and at home he got the inspiration for the Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh stories. Which we now know proved to be a giant stroke of luck and genius combined.The story in this movie is about that process and further issues the family had to face when they all became famous. My wife and I enjoyed the movie very much, in total it is a very heartwarming account of this family.Margot Robbie is very effective as the mom, Daphne Milne, and Kelly Macdonald is very effective as the nanny, Olive.

I was a fan of Winnie the Pooh as a child and love the character as an adult. This movie was interesting to see the backstory of how Winnie came to life. Endearing that it had everything to do with his son. I thought this movie was good.

Film is great. Can't help but feel a little but of animosity towards the mother and father after it all. The pretty much ruined their kids life. Also, seems that he never did forgive his parents for what they did to him in real life. Warning though. If you love winnie the pooh, this may just ruin the stories for you though. It's not the most romantic story ever told.