PADDINGTON
Director: Paul King;
95 minutes; Cert PG
This screen version of Michael Bond’s classic children’s story of the marmalade eating, well-mannered, talking bear from darkest Peru who comes to live with the Brown family in London is a family feel-good movie par excellence.
Well-beloved characters (like Mr Gruber) and plot lines (like flooding the house) are woven into a tale which remains faithful to the original idea while becoming an extra-vanganza of adventure in our contemporary capital city. The slapstick is pleasing and the dialogue is sharp.
