Winningly voiced by Ben Whishaw, Paddington Bear's first big-screen adventure is a joy
Winningly voiced by Ben Whishaw, Paddington Bear's first big-screen adventure is a joy.
A warm, witty and generous-hearted family film to delight young and old alike, this perfectly captures the spirit of Michael Bond's books.
The plot sees the marmalade sandwich-loving bear leaving darkest Peru after an earthquake destroys his jungle home. He turns up in London and is taken in by the Brown family, headed by Hugh Bonneville and Sally Hawkins, and their housekeeper Mrs Bird (Julie Walters).
He's soon causing all manner of hilarious mayhem, while menace looms in the form of Nicole Kidman's evil taxidermist, who wants to add Paddington to her collection at the Natural History Museum, and nosy neighbour Mr Curry (Peter Capaldi).
