finished watching Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 🌕🌑🌑🌑🌑
This movie had the potential to land in "so bad it's good" territory, but fumbled the ball hard when it came to achieving that status.

Getting first thing out of the way, this was clearly a grab at an opportunity to use characters that had newly entered the public domain and twist them into something new. One can honestly appreciate the fact that among the first and most notable works utilising Winnie the Pooh after becoming public domain was this film, which took a whole new approach to the story as a whole.

In fact, the introductory story was something that was, in my opinion, clever, and had a lot of potential. The work put into the sequences for the backstory were honestly impressive, and honestly lifts up one's expectations for what to expect of the rest of movie...

...which unfortunately becomes a massive disappointment. Any meaningful character development is purely left at that, and none of the other characters that the movie introduces become characters that one can have any meaningful relation or connection to. In short, every character in the movie serves zero purpose other than to be a victim of a massacre, and while I understand this *is* a slasher film, having just about nothing for viewers to relate to the characters on takes away from the impact of their deaths.

Certain scenes are laughable purely in their absurdness and poor acting, and while one wants to give more leeway to a film that at points doesn't seem to take itself seriously, the ending of the film leaves the mind boggled as to what the point of anything in the movie was, and honestly comes off as gratuitous both in the moment, the lead up in the moment, and honestly throughout the entire film.

This disappointment of this watch lands especially hard on the viewer because one can see the *potential* of the movie with it's interesting backstory and concept, quality animated scenes, and honestly some surprisingly good cinematography at points. However the lack of anything meaningful or truly coherent, sprinkled with a pinch of some potentially misogynistic undertones, leaves one thinking the honeypot they reached into was empty.

What a shame.