Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin

Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (1997) is a Disney animated film you can watch online on iFILM, featuring Jim Cummings as Winnie the Pooh. Christopher Robin has gone back to school but leaves only a note — which Owl misreads, turning "school" into a terrifying place called Skull at the edge of the Forbidden Mountain. Pooh decides his friend is in danger and needs rescuing.

Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore and Rabbit set off together. The journey turns out to be longer and harder than any of them planned, and each character runs into the particular kind of fear that fits them: being useless, being alone, being lost. The adventure works as adventure, but there is something underneath it about what it costs to grow up and leave things behind.

The film is quieter and more emotionally direct than most Disney productions of its era. The tagline — "you're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think" — comes from A. A. Milne and earns its place here. Stream Pooh's Grand Adventure (1997) online on iFILM.