Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 (2024) review

The expected follow-up to last year's debacle - and "winner" of the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture - is pretty much the same: following the gruesome incident at 100 Acre Wood, Christopher Robin (Scott Chambers) is blamed for the massacre, tries to work in the health care field (but gets canned), learns about secret experiments run on children ... and then Winnie-the-Pooh (Ryan Oliva), Owl (Marcus Massey), Piglet (Eddy MacKenzie) and Tigger (Lewis Santer) go on a rampage (with lots of Mortal Kombat-style beheadings).  The comments I made in my capsule review for part one apply here as well: it's inept in almost every way (the cartoon portions are passable) and only exists for the barely-conscious Midnight Movie crowd ... although there aren't any thrills and bastardizing a beloved character for kids is a scuzzy move.  To make it even more contemptible, Christopher undergoes "hypnotherapy" in order to unlock repressed "memories" involving his missing brother, which is consistent with many of these Gen Z-targeted horror releases.  A third feature is inevitable, and for that I want Eeyore wielding a flame thrower ... you know, to burn the sadness away.