Opinion

What they did to Pooh is not funny

Posted August 26, 2018 1:00 am

I laughed and I laughed.

I remember once a long time ago, when I was eight - I am now in my 80s. - I was sick. It was one of those nonlife-threatening childhood diseases or a cold, but I had a temperature, and my solicitous mother kept me home from school for two weeks and confined me to bed. But I was not lonely, because she supplied me with books to read. My favorite was Winnie The Pooh.

I read about Pooh, the simple yet wise teddy bear, his master, Christopher Robin, his forest friends - babyish Piglet, melancholy Eeyore, etc. - and their hilarious adventures and droll conversations. And I laughed and I laughed. Good times.

Now my childhood companion has been turned into a big-time Disney movie. I eagerly took my 8-year-old grandson to see it with me.

My grandson was not particularly interested in the movie. I was very disappointed in it. Someone had taken this wildly funny story for children and turned it into a dark, redundant, preachy film for parents, telling them the correct way to live. How sad.

Inez Tornblom

Elgin

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