According to feet on the ground, the mysterious buyer was actually the local veterinarian – who lives in the area and knew the property was on the market. While it seems like a rather impulsive way to go about buying a house, the buyer didn’t go in completely blind. Modern appliances and a minimalist aesthetic elevate this terrace beyond your usual inner-city fare. ( You could buy a new Porsche with that sort of change.) The property also set a record price for Paddington per square metre, according to Williams. Those minor gripes aside, both movies are a blast and I had a smile glued on my face throughout the duration of both installments (and a third has been greenlit)! Paddington’s my dude.It’s a move that’s clearly paid off for the sellers, considering it sold for $230,000 above the reserve. I also wasn’t crazy about some of the music stings in the first Paddington, like “I Feel Good” by James Brown, which I thought was so past the point of cliché I didn’t even know it could still be in a movie. Plus, Hugh Grant is so funny in Paddington 2 as a fallen actor (who talks to his past roles in character as if they’re his multiple personalities) that the more serious Kidman can’t quite match it. Nicole Kidman plays the first Paddington’s villain, a taxidermist who wants to kill and stuff Paddington, and that makes it less fun than it just being the bear trying to break out of prison to clear his name like in the sequel.
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I didn’t think the first one was as good as the sequel (it’s a 3.5/4 instead of a 4/4), but you could tell it’s the type of movie where all the right elements were put in place and it was ready to lift off the next go-around. I liked Paddington 2 so much that I delayed seeing the original for about a week because I knew I was going to be sad when I did watch it and had no new Paddington content to enjoy. Watching Paddington 2, I felt like Anton Ego at the end of Ratatouille when he tries the titular dish and reconnects with his younger self. The movie reminded me a lot of when you’re a kid and had stuffed animals (or, in my case, a blanket) and you give it a personality and inner life that was half joking and half completely sincere. I love that he’s not without flaws (he’s very naïve), but underneath that is just a genial good nature where he just wants to be helpful and he sees the good in everyone unless they prove to him otherwise. Everything about this movie is classy, witty, cute, charming and pleasant, just like its title character. Even the prison in Paddington 2 looks like a great place to live. There are shots where the camera pulls back and shows the home like a doll house, and it’s just one example of the visual invention on display throughout these films. When I watched Paddington 2, I wanted to jump through the screen and slide down the staircase at the Browns' house on my way to the kitchen for coffee, toast and marmalade. Recently, Patrick and I wrote an article on movie worlds we’d want to live in, and the neighborhood of Windsor Gardens in the Paddington movies is worthy of addition to my list. Their whole dynamic made me cry happy tears. It’s a moment between Paddington and his Aunt Lucy. I don’t even know how they did the work in this scene with its layers of one VFX style/element inside a different, but equally impressive one.Bean and its principal performer is a digital creation. This first clip is a terrific comedic sequence worthy of Mr.It’s rare for me to be wowed by VFX these days, but I was blown away by the work in this film. The sets, production design, costumes and visual effects are tremendous, too. Hugh Grant, Sally Hawkins and Brendan Gleeson are having the time of their lives, and Ben Whishaw as the voice of Paddington is perfect casting. Everyone brings their A-game in Paddington 2, performance-wise. Hulot’s Holiday and another miracle sequel, George Miller’s Babe: Pig in the City.
I’d put it in the same league as Wes Anderson films like Moonrise Kingdom or The Grand Budapest Hotel, Jacques Tati’s Mr. I expected the movie to be good-natured and charming, but it’s seriously more than that. What makes Paddington 2 so great and why are so many critics and audience members rallying around it so much? I think a lot of it has to do with what a surprise it is.
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