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“If you’re kind and polite, the world will be right.” — Paddington Brown
A recent spate of humane and optimistic movies —short on discord, long on warmth, and explicitly about the goodness in people — suggests that our ongoing political debacle may be prompting some filmmakers to reconsider the types of stories they want to tell. At a time when the free world is run by a malignant cancer who can’t even shake hands with someone without trying to assert…
alternate titles for this movie include: Great Brit-apest Hotel, Fantastic Mr. Bear, and Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events But Peep This, There's A Lil Bear In It
My daughter tapped out about 30 minutes in (she didn’t like the police arresting Paddington for a crime he didn’t commit, so I guess my plan to watch The Fugitive with her next is out). I finished it without her. This is an absolutely delightful story with a wonderful message and one of the most convincing CGI protagonists I’ve ever seen. Calling it just a good children’s film undersells it entirely. It’s a good film period.
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