Read the Full StoryOne of the most enduring characters for the Walt Disney Company is Winnie the Pooh. The silly old bear and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood have been a major part of the Disney ethos for more than 50 years, first appearing in a short in the mid-1960s before getting feature films in 1977 and 2011, various TV shows and theme-park attractions. It isn’t terribly surprising to see Pooh and friends appear in a new movie that employs one of the more vexing trends of recent Disney efforts: getting the live-action treatment. But it is quite jarring to see these characters, for the first time, in computer-animated form in Christopher Robin.
