Paddington (2015)

Wow! This movie is everything a family movie should be! On the surface this looks like a movie about a funny bear causing trouble in a big city, but in reality it's a story about immigration, colonialism and finding your place in the world, and being an immigrant myself in London I can't help but relate. The Brown family dynamics reminded me the Parr family from The Incredibles, with a very British spin and no superpowers of course, and Mr Brown's journey from stern to playful father looks like a modern version of Mr Banks from Mary Poppins. There are many interesting visual ideas like symmetrical shots that wear their Wes Anderson's inspiration on their sleeve, or a doll's house that opens up and becomes the Brown's home. I also found myself laughing out loud in more than one moment, I can definitely recommend this gem!

Really nice movie to watch with kids ! Funny , emmotionnal with a good basic story

This is what happens when the best of all the different departments of British filmmaking come together. From the cast, the script, the animation and everyone else involved with this project - this film (and the sequel to it) come together to create a flawless story for all ages.Both this and the sequel are closely related and both must have been made either at the same time or with each other in mind.Like Disney's 'Peter Pan', the story is mostly about the kids and the titular character... and both give a generous portion of the narrative to the characters of the parents. There are other parallels, too.The voice of Ben Whishaw as Paddington is perfect and it's eerily similar to the sound of a softer Terence Stamp. At times you'd swear these two must have been born in the same room!Hugh Bonneville is sublime as the harried father who takes parenthood very seriously, although not always in a direction his wife and kids approve of. (Lots of teens will relate to that!)Sally Hawkins is simply brilliant as the wife who hasn't quite left her decadent '60s' years behind her... and who delivers the shortest lines ('Oooh, laminated!' & 'Crikey!') with phenomenal execution.Lots of slapstick for the kids and plenty of Easter eggs for the bigger kids, too.If you're a fan of the 'Richard Curtis' school of pathos, comedy, and storytelling, you'll love this.

Paddington plays like a modern British fairytale, and boy does this film brim with gorgeous colours, great actors and some truly great and charming CG-animation bringing the world's favourite Maramalade-eating bear to the big screen.Paddington is 'jolly-good-stuff' that is as British as British family films and comedy gets: full of down to earth yet relatable and sometimes self-mockery. Paddington you could swear was at least partially funded or meddled by American hands, but that is not the case here. One of the UK's most famous literary icons gets transformed into a believable and modern animal that feels like he's in a story custom-made as creative yet cinema-referential; it has great charm and feelings reminiscent to the Harry Potter films in its giddiness, like The Jungle Book in the opening sequence, and the benefits of gorgeous London-based scenery that drives the story complimented by the occasional homage to the Mission Impossible movies.Paddington: I expected a kid's movie that would be enjoyable and harmless; it's charm may just about make those rough-gutted moviegoers out there real sick. Overall it's an absolute joy and feel-good movie where you can be absolutely sedated by its stress-free story and characters. It's happy cinema done right.