superdeluxe

Movie is less than 3 days from opening, and didn't find a thread on it. Thought this liked a good family film. Will be taking my son to it next week


Sitting at 96% at Rotten Tomatoes and 77% at Metacritic.

GoldenJCJ

I'm surprised this wasn't released a month or two ago for the Holidays. It seems like it's got Thanksgiving/Christmas written all over it and with such slim pickings this last holiday season I'm sure it could have made more money than it will being released in the middle of January.

superdeluxe

It was released for the Holidays in the UK, but in the US its friday. kind of strange really.

fumanstan

I was thinking about starting a thread after seeing the high reviews. I thought the trailers for this looked atrocious, particularly how slapstick Paddington looked with flooding the bathroom (i swear there was some discussion about that here, but I guess not.)

dex14

This has a stigma in my head because Colin Firth made it sound like it was shit, when he abruptly dropped out of the movie as the voice of the bear.

E Unit

This movie looks like it'll be the balls. I'm in.

Mike86

It just looks like an average family comedy film. I don't think it looks that terrible really.

superdeluxe

I'm wondering if he just didn't want to be involved with a child's film?

every little snippet I've read at rotten tomatoes leads me to believe that the whole family might actually enjoy this one.

Drexl

The cast looks pretty good for this sort of thing.

fumanstan

Might as well link the trailer

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superdeluxe

Paddington was the 5th highest grossing film in the UK in 2014

Matthew Chmiel

1. Too much family competition during the holidays between the releases of Annie, The Hobbit, Night at the Museum 3, and Into the Woods alongside the already-released Penguins of Madagascar, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, and Big Hero 6.

2. This weekend is a holiday weekend so kids are out of school.

dfmaverick2

Since the movie theatre lines were long tonight, I decided to take in a later showing of this movie, figuring I'd get some extra leg space. Found it enjoyable. A good one to take the family to.

Never liked marmalade as a kid, but now I almost want to give it another try.

Decker

I thought so too based on the trailer. Just came back from it and I thought it was a very, very good family film. I don't want to use "Babe" as the comparison, since it's not that good, but it's not far off a comparison. It's a wonderful film that's sweet and fun. It feels like one that could become more popular, maybe a family classic over time - it has a timeless quality. Nice to occasionally go to a kids' film that doesn't have a ton of popular culture references, poop and fart jokes (though there is one manure gag at the end) or tons of popular songs that date it in just a couple of years (there are a couple of musical cues, but old ones and they're brief).


He's done one before :


Honestly I think it was smart for him to drop out since Hugh Bonneville is basically doing the Colin Firth part anyway. Hell, he even shares the same character name : Mr. Brown

I thought Nicole Kidman was great - her first good comedic role since To Die For (sorry Bewitched, Stepford Wives and Just Go With It).

Solid Snake

Wow. This thing has a 98% at RT?! DAMN.

bluetoast

WTF? It looked like garbage from the trailers. Maybe they're hiding something.

Solid Snake

I thought the same fucking thing. Looked like generic crap. A family movie... with that high of a score?!

RichC2

It's directed by the guy that made Mighty Boosh, so I'd hope for some subversive humor mixed in.

Most people know that show from this NSFW youtube clip:

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That said, it's a family movie so who knows.

Giles

I thought this had a great cast and the director showed some visual flair - thank god Colin didn't voice Paddington - Ben's voicing is way more appropriate.

superdeluxe

The Trailers really do it no justice, it's a great family movie, the 'host' family is likeable and believable. There are a few hijinks with Paddington, but really it is a small portion of the movie. Definitely one of my favorites over the last couple of years.

james2025a

Having to take the step daughter to see this tomorrow. Its weird as i remember the old BBC Paddington stop motion from when i was a kid, and never cared for it. Sounds like this might be more fun. Nostalgia at least i guess. Now where is the Rent-a-ghost movie they were talking about a few years back?

Decker

I thought more about it. Babe isn't the right comparison, but Stuart Little is. Just like that film this takes a beloved source book and makes a charming little movie out of it benefited by really good special effects and a cast that's both sweet and totally committed to playing the parts as reality without any ironic winking to the audience. If you liked Stuart Little, you'd like this as well.

RichC2

So this is basically an M Night Shyamalan movie?

Decker

Before he started to suck.

Solid Snake

Sooooo... I saw this yesterday. Wow. It's actually a good movie. Not sure if it was worth the 98% i saw at RT... but it was easily the best "family" movie in a long fucking time. Cuz.... most family films suck major cock. This one actually had a soul! How many movies made for kids are just flash with little substance? So goddamn many of them.

The trailers do no fucking justice to the movie. I'm fucking getting this for BD cuz it was damn good. Had heart and soul to it. This film should not exist today based on how things are done...but it does. It doesn't dumb itself down. It doesn't pander to just shit going on to entertain. It all has a narrative purpose. Fuck. I was so happy to see it too cuz I just had to see wtf those ratings were all about. I really wish more kids/family flicks had the drive to just tell a good story without having to worry about bringing in the normal bs comedy and flash. Everything was solid about it. Can't really say much bad about it.

Better than anything Disney and Dreamworks has done in a while.