148. Winnie The Pooh - Blood and Honey; movie review

 

WINNIE THE POOH: BLOOD AND HONEY

Cert 18

84 mins

BBFC advice: Contains strong violence, gory images, threat

AA Milne would be turning in his grave.

When he created Winnie The Pooh and his friends of Hundred Acre Wood, one would presume he had in mind the exact opposite of this ghastly film.

It is shocking that anyone would have an imagination warped enough to come up with Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey and prompts equal dismay that so many people seem to have 'enjoyed' it to make it a financial triumph.

Rhys Frake-Waterfield, who has already created bloody horror out of Bambi and the Easter Bunny, goes for the grotesque again with Pooh and his pals.

The very strange premise is that Pooh and his friends are mutant crosses between animals and humans and are discovered by Christopher Robin in the woods when they are all young.

But when he goes away to college, they are left to starve and, on a night of desperate hunger, eat poor Eeyore.

At that point, they vow never to speak again while pledging to wreak revenge on Christopher Robin and any other humans.

Thus, when he returns as an adult (played by Nikolai Leon) with his new wife (Paula Coiz), they find a very different wood from the one he left.

Their arrival is soon followed by a group of attractive young women on a girls' woodland break.

And, yes, they all become bloody fodder for the mutants but not before boobs and bums are flashed.

Did AA Milne imagine Pooh and Piglet dragging a bikini-clad girl from a jacuzzi and running over her head until her eye pops out?

I suspect not - even during his worse nightmare. 

Winnie The Pooh - Blood and Honey taints the legacy of a great writer.

Reasons to watch: Can't think of any

Reasons to avoid: Too many to list

Laughs: None

Jumps: None

Vomit: Slobbering rather than vomit

Nudity: Yes

Overall rating: 0.5/10

Did you know? The filmmaker was one of the first to use the expiration of the copyright for A.A. Milne’s books, which Disney held until recently. According to US law, copyrights expire 95 years after a work is first published – Winnie-the-Pooh debuted in 1926.

The final word.  Rhys Frake-Waterfield: "It's a bit like Marmite; you've got like the lovers and the haters. Fifty per cent of people absolutely love it and are obsessed with it, and then I've got the haters. They're the people who have messaged me on Instagram, but obviously, they're not the people I'm making the film for." Screen Rant

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