Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey is a terrible movie, but even calling it a movie might be too high of a praise. I could end the article right there and it would still be a succinct, accurate review of the newest venture of Winnie The Pooh.

This movie is the epitome of bottom of the barrel entertainment, and I don’t mean it in a good way. Everything about the movie is made terribly, doing the bare minimum to be considered a movie. 

The acting and script are amateur at best and radio commercial level acting at the worst, which is very often for this movie. Although, when you consider the quality of the movie as a whole and the budget, you can’t really blame the actors for not putting forth their best foot.

The visuals for the movie are subpar and overly dark, with many scenes having the little light they have come from porch lights or car headlights. The visual effects also leave much to be desired, although the practical effects are decent for the budget the movie was given.

The music was likely the product of a google search for “generic horror music,” as none of the music in the movie ever evoked an emotion other than a mild sense of suspense followed by minutes on end of boredom from the sheer nothingness that this movie exists as.

Even with the limitless potential that this movie had as a horror movie based on Winnie the Pooh, the writers chose to make the most generic and replaceable slasher movie possible. The movie is a generic slasher movie with little to no personality or charm to speak of.

Unlike a movie made in a similar vein to this one, 2021’s The Mean One, this movie doesn’t have the campy horror aesthetic and the “so bad it’s good” quality, but the film isn’t a good film either, so it’s hard to see what audience this movie intends to gain. There definitely could have been a more tongue in cheek version of the movie that would have been more appreciated for what it is, and considering the director has been open about making sequels and a whole cinematic universe with horror films about figures like Bambi and Peter Pan, there is still potential for a less serious and more enjoyable movie.

The movie is one that had all the potential in the world handed to it, but it was all for naught, as the filmmakers ultimately left us with a generic and unmemorable slasher movie. Maybe this movie is the reason Disney kept Winnie The Pooh out of public domain for so long.