People Have Strong Feelings About The CGI Winnie The Pooh In ‘Christopher Robin’

Disney released the first trailer (above) for their live-action Winnie the Pooh movie Christopher Robin, and, well, that’s Pooh all right. Directed by Marc Forster (World War Z), the film stars Ewan McGregor as a grown-up Christopher Robin who’s having a crisis. His boss (Mark Gatiss) tells him he has to lay off 20 percent of his employees and skip a vacation with his wife and daughter (Hayley Atwell and Bronte Carmichael). He’s having a bit of a bother on a park bench when a CGI Winnie the Pooh (voiced once again by Many Adventures of Winnie The Pooh‘s Jim Cummings) appears to help him.

Is this a kid’s movie, or a horror film? Not everyone is sure, and Twitter users made jokes and mashup videos, starting with perhaps the most obvious joke of all:

https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/971095091896029185

And since Ewan McGregor will forever be Obi-Wan Kenobi, people made Star Wars references and mashed up a scene between Obi-Wan and General Grievous in Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith.

https://twitter.com/antovolk/status/971073835897323526

People also noticed the similarity between the live-action Pooh and other stuffed, talking bears and took sides:

https://twitter.com/misterpatches/status/971078550035095552
https://twitter.com/jmrivera02/status/971079021046960128

https://twitter.com/NifMuhammad/status/971087958269988871

It’s a high bar to reach. Paddington 2 is so critically acclaimed it’s the highest-rated movie in Rotten Tomatoes history. On the other hand, some people will gladly accept all CGI animals Hollywood has to offer:

Perhaps the most common reaction, however, was to question if this is a horror movie. A grown man seeing a talking teddy bear during a midlife crisis could take a very dark turn…

https://twitter.com/NifMuhammad/status/971085664904245248

And the movie’s poster even carries the tagline, “Sooner or later, your past catches up to you.” Is that a threat?

That’s real. That’s the poster. Are we sure this isn’t a horror movie?

Everybody floats in the Hundred Acre Wood this August 3rd.

(Via Dorkly, Screen Rant, Inverse, and Disney)