grumpyf1

Watch out -billy-boy rabbits about... Beatrix Potter died in 1943. I may be speaking out of turn here, but I doubt she had any experience of what an EpiPen is for. Or what GCI is. Or why her fluffy bunny characters Cottontail, Flopsy and Mopsy would, in 2018, be appearing in a modern movie version of her famous book, Peter Rabbit, and attacking someone with an allergy to blackberries. In this modern take on the children’s favourite, Peter and his bunny hoodlums attack character Tom McGregor, firing the offending fruit at the human using catapults, and causing a reaction severe enough for him to have to use an EpiPen to deal with his allergic response. Ha! How cute. The kids will love it. What could be nicer to show your children? A gang picking on someone who has an allergy. Charming, and totally in the spirit of the original stories. Miss Potter may have loved the Lake District, but I suspect she’d be dismayed at this crass outing. Unsurprisingly, it’ caused a bit of a...