Wow! This movie is everything a family movie should be! On the surface this looks like a movie about a funny bear causing trouble in a big city, but in reality it's a story about immigration, colonialism and finding your place in the world, and being an immigrant myself in London I can't help but relate. The Brown family dynamics reminded me the Parr family from The Incredibles, with a very British spin and no superpowers of course, and Mr Brown's journey from stern to playful father looks like a modern version of Mr Banks from Mary Poppins. There are many interesting visual ideas like symmetrical shots that wear their Wes Anderson's inspiration on their sleeve, or a doll's house that opens up and becomes the Brown's home. I also found myself laughing out loud in more than one moment, I can definitely recommend this gem!

When i saw the poster for this i thought i would not watch it but today i have and my gosh did i like it . Its your run of the mill new person trying to find a place where they belong kind of like Stuart little but it is very well done.' I find that it was a very funny movie there was good jokes in it which is good with me. Honestly i went in to this movie excepting nothing and got a lot of smiles and laughs and isn't that what we need in our life. Great movie.

In no way is this 'true to the original'. In fact, I have had to walk away and start again, how apoplectic am I!.. I own a complete set of the original works (including that late addition in 2007), and cannot believe this travesty is being marketed as 'original'-it's simply awful... Paddington bear was reared in an unpretentious North London suburb in post-war London-in thoise days, going 'up West' to see the Christmas lights was a treat. Why should elevenses with Mr Gruber feature in a modern world-why should Paddington's gentle jousting with Mr Curry figure at all?.. Why was this whole scenario not set in 1950's post-austerity London?.. The whole thing is a mess, and best avoided... I shall now make myself a flask of cocoa, some marmalade sandwiches, retire to the log burner with a collection of Paddington's best, and laugh myself silly... I know Michael Bond was involved with this production, but he should have run away-much better, for younger viewers, is the BBC series with Michael Horden... They captured the whole ethos of the original stories... This is just a mess.

Paddington plays like a modern British fairytale, and boy does this film brim with gorgeous colours, great actors and some truly great and charming CG-animation bringing the world's favourite Maramalade-eating bear to the big screen.Paddington is 'jolly-good-stuff' that is as British as British family films and comedy gets: full of down to earth yet relatable and sometimes self-mockery. Paddington you could swear was at least partially funded or meddled by American hands, but that is not the case here. One of the UK's most famous literary icons gets transformed into a believable and modern animal that feels like he's in a story custom-made as creative yet cinema-referential; it has great charm and feelings reminiscent to the Harry Potter films in its giddiness, like The Jungle Book in the opening sequence, and the benefits of gorgeous London-based scenery that drives the story complimented by the occasional homage to the Mission Impossible movies.Paddington: I expected a kid's movie that would be enjoyable and harmless; it's charm may just about make those rough-gutted moviegoers out there real sick. Overall it's an absolute joy and feel-good movie where you can be absolutely sedated by its stress-free story and characters. It's happy cinema done right.