We’re back in a picture-book London following the adventures of Paddington, a small bear from Peru in a rumpled hat and duffle coat, with a liking for marmalade and a voice of boyish innocence (Ben Whishaw).
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It is a worthy successor to the 2014 movie Paddington, and beautifully captures the homespun appeal and low-key whimsy of the books by Michael Bond. If this makes Paddington 2 sound excessively saccharine, there is an accompanying application of charm, even melancholy restraint that makes this family film rather wonderful.
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The same principle applied to the making of this motion picture: immodest helpings of whatever sweetening agent is to hand, then some more for good luck. Making marmalade in a prison kitchen (I’ll explain) Paddington is extremely generous with the sugar, adding an extra jar of the stuff before licking out its remains with his elongated tongue. It is a remorseless, expertly designed vehicle for the delivery of cuteness. Beginning on this sentimental note, the film never releases us from its icky claws. The first clear view we get of the eponymous ursine hero of Paddington 2 (hanging from rope, over a raging waterfall in Peru, don’t ask) elicited a collective ‘aww’ from the audience I was with.