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Critics Consensus: Paddington brings a beloved children's character into the 21st century without sacrificing his essential charm, delivering a family-friendly adventure as irresistibly cuddly as its star.
Critic Consensus: Paddington brings a beloved children's character into the 21st century without sacrificing his essential charm, delivering a family-friendly adventure as irresistibly cuddly as its star.
All Critics (150) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (147) | Rotten (3) | DVD (1)
Paddington is absolutely, positively delightful.
Paddington is a wonder: warm, gentle, well-acted, funny without being stupid.
Paddington...comes off as a charming character. The kind of character that children around the world have fallen in love with...But even with all the bear's charm, a plodding pace and a questionable plotline leave the film version less desirable to watch.
A respectable screen version of Michael Bond's classic children's books.
It manages to be both old-fashioned and high-tech. It remains faithful to the character's roots while also placing him firmly within a contemporary setting. It's charmingly funny and shamelessly punny.
Find yourself a small child and go - but be sure to stop for tea and biscuits after.
It's very genteel, and the ingenious skits of Paddington and the Brown family celebrate the essential inventiveness and eccentricity at the heart of the British sensibility.
Paddington may well be the biggest surprise of 2014, and a prime example of how to adapt material aimed at young children right.
Eventually gets lost in Scooby Doo plot territory, but at heart it's a story of a young bear trying to find his way in a new world.
Paddington is delectably twee, yet it's the big heart in this charming tale that resonates loudest.
It's a gem of an adaptation I hope becomes a classic.
A super adorable movie, totally not at all what I was expecting from a live action, CGI, Paddington movie.
Lovely and perfectly animated adventure movie for kids. They will easily fall in love with the protagonist and the message of tolerance and family values. Sure, the message is not particularly subtle, but the visual ideas, special effects and action scenes make for fine entertainment anyway.
Super Reviewer
In the same vein as Zootopia, which is to say a vehicle that extols embracing diversity, comes this family charmer that recommends London as a place where bears hailing from "darkest Peru" can find a home. It's inoffensively cute.
In a lot of ways, Paddington is the epitome of the PG family-feel-good genre. Despite a very basic plot and several familiar archetypes following tried and true formulas its never a dull affair. Through masterful direction, an exceedingly clever script, imaginative set pieces and a colorful cast it quickly unravels as an undeniably entertaining experience. But it's more than that, it's friendly and wholesome without being overly sentimental. It's childish, without treating it's viewers like children. Paddington simply wins you over with smiles, laughs, warmth and ultimately, a whole lot of wit.
Paddington is unabashedly wholesome. That's not to say the script is schmaltzy. Nicole Kidman pops up as the villain - a beguiling museum taxidermist sporting a blonde bob hairstyle. Her Millicent injects some sinister edge into a story that could've been a saccharine tale. An even more fundamental ingredient is our star, an Andean bear. Ben Whishaw, is the voice of the CGI fellow replacing Colin Firth, whose voice was deemed too mature. The character, who is the personification of goodness, strikes just the right balance of sweetness and mischief. Paddington's amusing mishaps often rely on his naiveté. His misadventure involving returning a lost wallet is a humorous case of mistaken identity. It's too early to anoint this as the best children's film of 2015, but if this is representative of family entertainment this year, 2015 is off to a great start. fastfilmreviews.com
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