Christopher Robin is the Best Movie in the World Jessica Fatzinger

Christopher Robin is the best movie in the world. Despite the poor acting and the animation that made the animals look sad and dreary, a movie is impressive if it can make the viewer feel an emotion, and Christopher Robin exceeds in that realm. Twenty minutes into the movie, my mother and I were cuddled together, bawling our eyes out in an otherwise silent movie theater. Christopher Robin had just told his daughter, Clare, that he could not go on their weekend trip because he had to prepare for a business meeting. The daughter’s slow change from a big hopeful grin to a completely blank face practically pulled the tears out of my eyes. The little girl reminded me of myself.

On school nights I wolfed down my vegetables and spent the rest of the night staring out the window waiting for my dad to come back from a late night at work or a business trip. Just like the weekend trip to her family’s cottage teased Clare, every holiday teased me with the question of whether my dad would be there to celebrate. Maybe if Christopher Robin never found the Hundred Acre Forest again and the movie's entire plot changed, his family’s evolution would be similar to mine. It became the standard to only see my dad once every few weeks, and that...