It’s common knowledge that Winnie The Pooh became public domain. Born from what was last years first offering, Winnie The Pooh Blood and Honey, a slasher film centred around the characters from A.A Milne’s classic works. Well, after a disappointing start last year, Christopher Robin and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood return for another fun outing filled with joy and happiness.
The new movie is a big improvement! The last adventure only featured Pooh & Piglet. The addition of Owl and Tigger adds some much needed flavour and fun. Tigger even performs his best Freddy Krueger impression, complete with “Bitch” after every sentence he utters. Tigger is rather fun as a slasher villain and uses his claws with deadly effect. Owl is almost like the ring leader in this sequel. I liked the fact he is a little wiser as this is true to the source material. Piglet is basically a non entity and barely in the film
The narrative drags for the first fifty minutes. The scenes involving the animals are enjoyable, gory entertainment from the get go. However the Chris Robin stuff does meander. Watching him in the hospital working and the time he spends with his family are some of the dullest scenes in the movie. A little later on we are treated to some interesting exposition. Chris Robin tracks down his brother’s kidnapper and some interesting revelations are revealed. Everything is explained and now we become aware of Pooh and his friends’ origins.
Things get extremely bloodthirsty. Whether it’s a bear trap on a chain, chainsaws or the toxic acid sprayed from Owl’s mouth there is a variety of gruesome kills here that will satisfy slasher fans lust for blood. The scenes at the rave are quite fun and this is where Tigger really shines and goes on a rampage unfortunately he doesn’t bounce around.
Overall this was a step up from the first adventure and there is some fun to be had with this one. Pooh even utters “oh bother” which I found hilarious. I wouldn’t be opposed to a third movie. It will need more characters from the source material, perhaps Rabbit and Gopher. We definitely need some heffalumps and woozles involved.
Ratings
Movie: 2.5/5 (not great but not awful)
Disk: 3/5 Good picture quality however the release is very bare bones. Why no slipcover?