Blu-ray Review – Paddington
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Paddington
- Release Date: April 28, 2015
- Studio: Anchor Bay Entertainment
- Genre: Live action with CGI animitrionics comedy
- Rating: PG
- Run Time: 95 minutes
- Number of discs: 2
- SMRP: $30.00
Brief Summary:
A brilliant 3 foot 6 talking Peruvian stowaway arrives at Paddington Station, London. Thus begins the allegory of immigrant who discovers his identity and it is all right not to be like others. Barely noticed, in an old bush hat with a tag “Please look after this bear. Thank you.” he is alone in a strange cold city until he comes upon the Brown family and their housekeeper Mrs. Bird. When they take him, his manners, kindness, and compassion show through slapstick misadventures and mischief involving toilet, tea and cake, cell tape, vacuum cleaners, skateboards, double decker buses, escalators, whiskey, fire, flood, fire, pickpockets, and kidnapping.
Special Features:
- Meet the Characters
- When a Bear Comes to Stay
- From Page to Screen
- “Shine” Lyric Music Video
This Critic’s Review:
Brits love Paddington; so do I. Kudos to fabulously British Paddington for its Best Comedy win at Empire Magazine’s 25th Annual Film Awards. It has everything–warmth, clever visual effects, verbal wit, good natured fun. This full length feature has something for anyone and everyone young and old–beautiful cinematography, brilliant casting, superb voicing of Ben Whishaw as Paddington, good guys Hugh Bonneville and Sally Hawkins, bad guy awful, vicious Nicole Kidman, supporting Madeleine Harris, Samuel Joslin, and Julie Walters, acclaimed cameos by Oscar winner Jim Broadbent, “Doctor Who” Peter Capaldi, and “Little Britain” Matt Lucas cameos.
My Opinion Only:
Thank you, producer David Heyman, for a very special movie and, perhaps, more history making. You brought Harry Potter to life. Now you give us anthropmorphisized spectacle Paddington. His genteel politesse is good example, good lesson. As a full-length movie feature, Paddington’s screenplay, animation, movie score, and original song Shine excel. Since Michael Bond’s Paddington titles number seventy, please bring on sequels. It is foreign to me why this British gem was neglected by Hollywood for both Oscar awards and nominations.
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