I watched the movie Christopher Robin with Ewan McGregor tonight, and I’m here to write a review.

Ewan McGregor does absolutely perfectly playing someone fundamentally good, but harassed and down on their luck. As an adult Christopher Robin, he deftly handles going on adventures back in his childhood home, and his daughter and his wife are wonderful additions to the cast. There were a few stereotype characters populating an adult Christopher Robin’s world, but the main parts felt wonderfully real.

This was a very touching movie, gently made and genuinely emotional, very adorable. While the subject matter risked going into stereotype cliché territory, the film never did. It was surprisingly dark in certain places, but never dark just for the sake of being gratuitous, and the inspirational messages put across managed to feel new even when they weren’t.

Despite the fact that we’ve heard the messages in the movie before, it’s never too late, I don’t think, to hear them another time. A wonderful family movie that focuses on every part of the family — and is for adults as well as children.