Review: A Bear Named Winnie

Amazon seems to be making it harder to find prime movies on the Fire stick nowadays and the missus wanted a thriller she hadn't seen (it seems like she's pretty much watched everything on Prime), but wasn't scary.

Somehow, we stumbled upon A Bear Named Winnie. And just to be clear, this is not a thriller.  Instead, it's a fairly gentle retelling of a "true" story about how Winnie the Pooh came to get his name. Apparently, it turns out he was named about a real bear in London Zoo - and the story of how Winnie came to be in London Zoo is the focus of the film.

It's an interesting story with a few minor points of drama and the two bears used in filming are extremely cute. I spent much of the film wondering just how they'd got them to be so tame and well trained as well as envying Fassbender for spending a movie working with a bear.

One word on the Amazon Prime copy, it's pretty blurry looking.

Verdict: Touching tale with cute bear action.