Padinton

Original title: Paddington
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Ben Whishaw in Padinton (2014)
A young English boy befriends a talking bear he finds at a London train station. A live-action feature based on the series of popular children's books by Michael Bond.
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A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven.A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven.A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven.

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    8/10
    When his home in Darkest Peru is destroyed, a young bear travels to London in order to find a new home. He's helped by a couple with two kids, which share different opinions regarding the new troublemaker which "landed" in their home. Although helping him find a proper home, the Browns start to attach to the newcomer but his negligent way of life and an evil hunter from a local history museum tend to interfere in their relationship, for better or worse.

    We're presented with the amusing and entertaining adventures of this strange bear which comes to a big city in search of a new life, but ends up in a lot of trouble, more or less due to his actions. It's a movie which doesn't have an extraordinary plot, but it's enough to keep you interested while making you laugh with almost everything the cute bear does. By the way, the CGI is top notch, and together with the actors' performance, create a good movie for everybody to enjoy. As downsides, it tends to exaggerate in many scenes, while being very simplistic when speaking about the "evil" part which hunts Paddington.

    Still, it manages to create a very enjoyable atmosphere which makes this movie a very good watch, especially during winter holidays.

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    • Trivia
      The character of Paddington Bear is based on a lone teddy bear noticed by the authorMichael Bond on a shelf in a London store near Paddington Station on Christmas Eve 1956. Bond bought it for his wife and was inspired to write a story. The outline of the lonely bear at Paddington Station was inspired by old newsreels showing trainloads of child evacuees leaving London during World War II with labels around their necks and their possessions in small suitcases.
    • Goofs
      The first shot of the fictional 'Westbourne Oak' tube station clearly shows the red-tiled name of the real Maida Vale station.
    • Quotes

      Paddington: Mrs Brown says that in London everyone is different, and that means anyone can fit in. I think she must be right - because although I don't look like anyone else, I really do feel at home. I'll never be like other people, but that's alright, because I'm a bear. A bear called Paddington.

    • Crazy credits
      The credits feature the assurance "No bears were harmed in the making of this film."
    • Soundtracks
      Imperial Echoes
      Written byWilliam H. Myddleton (as Arnold Safroni-Middleton)

      Arranged byNatalie Holt (as Natalie Holt)

      Copyright 1913 by Boosey & Co Ltd

      By Permission of Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd, An Imagem Company

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    • Budget
      • $55,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $76,271,832
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $18,966,676
      • Jan 18, 2015
    • Gross worldwide
      • $326,088,587

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