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Seriously, Disney? A live-action Winnie The Pooh? Seriously?
Over on Facebook my fellow Reviewers Unknown compatriot Eli Stone (The Cartoon Hero) was talking about the next live-actionized Disney movie, after the Jungle Book. Of course it’s not a Disney original, few movies they’ve made being at least inspired by another work, but the fact that Disney made a live-action version of the story when they’ve had great success with the animated classic. Even the direct-to-video sequel is at best mediocre and unnecessary.
But now we’re getting a live-action version of Winnie The Pooh, the classic A.A. Milne character that has starred in numerous Disney shows and movies in animation only as late as a few years ago. (Well, except for Welcome To Pooh Corner, the early Disney Channel show for kids that used costumes with moving mouths which had a special video about stranger danger. But that was a special situation. Dumbo had one of those, too.) But for some reason Disney has opted not only to make this into a live-action movie, but to rip off the plot to another film that wasn’t made by Disney but they have a connection to the character. Namely Peter Pan.
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