**_When Milne’s characters meet with “The Island of Dr. Moreau” and “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre”_**
A year after the massacre at 100 Acre Wood, Winnie is in hiding with his friends and dealing with vigilantes. They decide to take the fight to the nearby village of Ashdown, where Christopher Robin lives, along with his parents and young sister.
The writer/director of “Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey II” (2024) had ten times the money to work with compared to his first film (which made a huge profit because it only cost $100,000 to make), so it’s no surprise that this film is superior on a technical level. I also liked how everything is explained concerning Winnie, Piglet, Owl and Tigger. The latter two make their debut here and Owl’s depiction is creepily excellent, not to mention utterly brutal. Tigger isn’t revealed until the last act and comes across as wandering off the set of “The Island of Dr. Moreau.”
Tallulah Evans plays Christopher’s potential girlfriend, Lexy, and stands out in the female department. Meanwhile Karolina Ugrenyuk is notable as the Bunny Rave Girl in the last act. Creator Rhys Frake-Waterfield still needs to learn how to shoot women, although he does okay.
It runs 1 hour, 33 minutes, and was shot in Ashdown Forest, which is 50 miles south of London in the north section of East Sussex. An overhead shot of Dedham is used (to represent the hamlet of Ashdown), which is located 70 miles northeast of London. The hospital sequences were done at the hospital in Hemel Hempstead, which is northwest of London.
GRADE: B-
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