Director Paul King
Staring Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters and the voice of Ben Whishaw
Rated G
Score 4/6

Adapted from Michael Bond’s universally beloved books and from the producer of Harry Potter and Gravity, PADDINGTON follows the journey of an optimistic and polite young bear from Peru who travels to London in search of a home and a family.

If you insist on seeing this one at the cinema you might want to accompany somebody under the age of 8 in order to avoid the stares that most single people over the 25 get when they walk into a cinema screening a G rated movie. Though I don’t remember anything of the books from when I was younger I do have vague memories of watching one of the television series. Paddington is not one of those movies where adults are going to feel that the movie is a chore to watch, in fact while I was watching this I was overcome with a warm happy nostalgic feeling and found myself chuckling along with some of the jokes and also loving the soundtrack.
There a couple of possibly scary moments, but they are dealt with how you would expect any other G rated movie would.
There was a brilliant cast and I thought that Nicole Kidman was brilliant in a creepy kind of way as the villainous taxidermist Millicent