Paddington Bear (voice of Ben Whishaw, Russian – Alexandra Oleshko) receives two important documents at once: a British passport and a letter from the abbot of the bear nursery in Peru (Olivia Colman). The last one says Aunt Lucy (voice of Imelda Staunton) I miss my baby so much but I’m ashamed to admit it. Later, Paddington and his adopted family Brown (Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer, Madeleine Harris, Samuel Joslin and Julie Walters) They decide to go to the bear cub’s homeland, Peru, and visit him. At that moment, something terrible is revealed: Aunt Lucy is lost somewhere in the Amazon jungle. Enlisting the help of shady riverboat captain Hunter Cabot (Antonio Banderas) and daughter Gina (Carla Tous), the heroes set out on a rescue expedition.
“I cried throughout the whole movie. After that, I wanted to be a better person,” Pedro Pascal told skeptical Nicolas Cage in the comedy “The Unbearable Weight of Immense Talent,” explaining why “Padington 2” is among his three favorite movies after “Face Off.” and “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.” Of course, these doubts were completely erased with tears while watching the masterpiece of Paul King, the author of the first two parts of the series. Ratings and percentages are not indicative, but I still want to point out: on the Rotten Tomatoes aggregator, in the seven years since its release, the film has received two negative reviews out of 250. This dropped the film’s rating to 99%.
Paddington’s namesake Justin Brown, the author of a negative review, admits that he doesn’t entirely believe in the film because it’s “dead inside”. The author of the second is critic Eddie Harrison. declaresHe said King’s two films did not live up to the spirit of Michael Bond’s original books and the animated series based on them. In the critic’s opinion, stories about the good bear cub are intended to help children understand the multicultural nature of British society, while feature films of the 2010s practically do not take into account issues of race and identity.
A still from the movie “The Adventures of Paddington 3” (2024)
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The third Paddington movie improves the situation to some extent. It was no longer directed by King: after the second episode, the director decided that he was satisfied with his work and, taking with him screenwriter Simon Farnaby, began shooting “Wonka,” a prequel to another important children’s book, with Timothée Chalamet. “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by another important British author, Roald Dahl. The third Paddington has King listed as just one of the script’s writers, and is directed by 53-year-old debutante Dougal Wilson, who has previously directed commercials and music videos. It is clear that continuing to work while setting the bar so high is not an enviable fate. And in King’s absence, “Paddington” naturally became a much more production-oriented film; Very fluid and smooth. There is now a much more distinct understanding of franchise; For example, in the post-credits scene, Hugh Grant appears with a joke about the play he is planning, which is not entirely a joke: there are plans, as well as new feature films and TV series based on Paddington. staging a musical (its premiere will be announced for next year).
So, all this is interestingly combined with the fact that the third film corrects the situation to some extent and turns out to be a political statement about immigrants (Harrison, if anything, doesn’t care) I don’t like it). This statement, of course, lacks any precision or clarity. Moreover, Wilson certainly has a brain: In 2010, he directed a social short film in which schoolchildren who did not want to participate in reducing greenhouse gas emissions literally exploded when a special button was pressed. The video might have been considered a crude satire on environmental activists had it not been filmed by actual activists from the Possible organization (which promptly removed the tape from its sources after a barrage of criticism).
A still from the movie “The Adventures of Paddington 3” (2024)
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On the other hand, “The Adventures of Paddington 3” as such creates an interesting immigrant duality with the previous work of actor Ben Whishaw, the main role in Kirill Serebrennikov’s “The Ballad of Eddie”, who chose to ignore some episodes. According to Eduard Limonov’s biography, “making a movie about a man shooting at people” was “unbearable.”
But all this may boil in the minds of adult viewers of the third “Paddington”, who will be consoled by the magnificent Banderas and Colman, as always, but little viewers for whom the film was originally made will hardly understand this situation. be disturbed by the above. Moreover, there is a high probability that they will be satisfied with the viewing. Although the landscape of the mysterious Amazon jungle (Wilson speaks sweetly in an interview about Werner Herzog’s film “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” about the conqueror’s search for Eldorado) in this case it is slightly inferior to the usual London comfort, and in general the picture is Anglo- It is about the Peruvian Cheburashka (citrus fruits are also an important element here), inferior to the previous parts in everything, which does not prevent it from being one of the most touching and kind films of the outgoing movie. year. But such treasures cannot be thrown away in this age.
A still from the movie “The Adventures of Paddington 3” (2024)
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Original title: Paddington in Peru
Premiere date: November 8, 2024
Release date in Russia: 28 November 2024
Duration: 106 minutes
Manager: Dougal Wilson
Casting: Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer, Olivia Colman, Antonio Banderas, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Madeleine Harris, Samuel Joslyn, Karla Tows, Imelda Staunton, Hayley Atwell, Hugh Grant
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Source: Gazeta
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