I know its just the second weekend for new movies in 2018, but my guess is that we may be hard pressed to find a film more charming and endearing this year than Paddington 2. Days after seeing the film, I am still smiling, chuckling a bit even, and hoping the movie makes all the money it can.
The original Paddington grossed nearly $270 million worldwide and earned two BAFTA nominations for Best British Film and Adapted Screenplay and a mutual consensus formed between critic, audience, and industry alike. With nearly everyone back for a second installment involving the kind-hearted talking bear, the fear of sequel failure is a fear we can put to rest. Paddington 2 is wonderful and better than its predecessor.
Voiced again by the fantastic Ben Whishaw, the lovable anthropomorphic bear has settled into the Brown house, on a bustling Notting Hill. Co-writer and director Paul King pivots from a …show more content…
Naturally, the hardened prisoners Paddington meets are not all that bad and, true to form, the soft-spoken, always optimistic bear wins over the most blackened of hearts. Among them, Nuckles McGinty (Brendan Gleeson), the prison cook, whose booming voice and thunderous rage is sufficiently snuffed out by a taste of Paddington's Kryptonite - marmalade.
King has such a command of this material, he makes the movie look effortless. Everyone has a purpose, whether it is Sally Hawkins and Hugh Bonneville fervently attempting to clear their adopted bear's name, or Peter Capaldi's tyrannical self-imposed authority figure, reminding everyone he was right all along about the bear not being trustworthy following his arrest.
Cameos are in abundance, but the movie never relies on anything as a crutch. King trusts his material so much, he pushes on undeterred. Everyone is having a ball on screen and the movie radiates warmth and humor with the comfort of a perfectly-timed
The original Paddington grossed nearly $270 million worldwide and earned two BAFTA nominations for Best British Film and Adapted Screenplay and a mutual consensus formed between critic, audience, and industry alike. With nearly everyone back for a second installment involving the kind-hearted talking bear, the fear of sequel failure is a fear we can put to rest. Paddington 2 is wonderful and better than its predecessor.
Voiced again by the fantastic Ben Whishaw, the lovable anthropomorphic bear has settled into the Brown house, on a bustling Notting Hill. Co-writer and director Paul King pivots from a …show more content…
Naturally, the hardened prisoners Paddington meets are not all that bad and, true to form, the soft-spoken, always optimistic bear wins over the most blackened of hearts. Among them, Nuckles McGinty (Brendan Gleeson), the prison cook, whose booming voice and thunderous rage is sufficiently snuffed out by a taste of Paddington's Kryptonite - marmalade.
King has such a command of this material, he makes the movie look effortless. Everyone has a purpose, whether it is Sally Hawkins and Hugh Bonneville fervently attempting to clear their adopted bear's name, or Peter Capaldi's tyrannical self-imposed authority figure, reminding everyone he was right all along about the bear not being trustworthy following his arrest.
Cameos are in abundance, but the movie never relies on anything as a crutch. King trusts his material so much, he pushes on undeterred. Everyone is having a ball on screen and the movie radiates warmth and humor with the comfort of a perfectly-timed