‘Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey’ Review: Nothing Sweet or Interesting in Genre Mash-Up
thewrap.comIt’s been over 60 years since Disney purchased the rights to A.A. Milne’s beloved children’s story “Winnie the Pooh” and transformed it into a multimedia cash cow and, frankly it’s never entirely sat right.
Some of Disney’s “Winnie the Pooh” adaptations were lovely, but Milne’s tale about magical creatures in the 100 Acre Wood was ultimately a fable about letting go of childhood, not perpetually reliving it.
If Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, and all their friends still exist then nobody learns anything.It took long enough, but the first “Winnie the Pooh” book finally lapsed into the public domain.
That they have run directly into the arms of an entirely different kind of exploitation — an R-rated, ultra-violent slasher movie — may seem ironic, but was probably inevitable.
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