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Meanwhile a wonderful steamfair is opened nearby by Hugh GrantвЂ™s fading star, and neighbour to the Browns, Phoenix Buchanan. Cue some hilarity involving first electric clippers and then a plastic bucket. However, upon discovering how much it would cost Paddington decides to earn the money by getting a job to buy it for his favourite Aunt.

Visiting Mr GruberвЂ™s antique shop he finds a one-of-a-kind pop-up book (or popping book, as Jim BroadbentвЂ™s Gruber would have it) featuring London landmarks. He is still living with the Brown family in Windsor Gardens and is a firmly established member of the community. Paddington 2 centres around the titular bearвЂ™s wish to find the perfect birthday present for his Aunt Lucy, who is still living out in Peru. Luckily it more than exceeds expectations, with Paul King and Simon FarnabyвЂ™s script being both riotously funny, supremely touching and even politically savvy. Given the joy with which the first film was met, this second outing had a lot to live up to. It was an absolute delight and has become a staple family favourite. However it ended up being in many critics top ten lists of the year and Ben WhishawвЂ™s voicing of Paddington left us all convinced he was the only man for the job. Having had to recast the voice of Paddington himself when Colin Firth stepped away from the project, many already sceptical folk were worried the end product might be a bit of a mess. The 2014 Paddington film took everyone by surprise. And donвЂ™t miss the end credits, which - while stealing a gag from a long-ago Simpsons episode - nonetheless is a total campy delight.Director: Paul King Starring: Ben Whishaw, Hugh Grant, Sally Hawkins, Hugh Bonneville

This subsequent culinary awakening and a laundry mishap that turns the prisonersвЂ™ outfits pink greatly expands PaddingtonвЂ™s wink-wink fascination with feminizing men a highlight of the first film was Bonneville - best known as the stuffy Lord Downton - passing himself off as a cleaning lady.

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Through a series of misunderstandings and bad haircuts, Paddington winds up in jail, where he wins over the hardened criminals by whipping up a batch of his preferred sustenance, marmalade. Of course, things still must go comically sidewise for our plucky bear. And familiarity with the characters means less time spent establishing them, and more time for just enjoying who they are. Also, some of that earlier filmвЂ™s franticness has been toned down when a filmвЂ™s big climax involves a steam train, one can hurtle only so fast. (BuchananвЂ™s quest involves Grant donning a number of amusing disguises.)ДЄ hammy actor as the bad guy is a much more entertaining foil than the rather bizarre mad taxidermist that Nicole Kidman portrayed in the first film.

But before he can buy the book, itвЂ™s stolen by Phoenix Buchanan (Grant), a dastardly washed-up actor who knows the book is actually a treasure map. The shaggy-dog plot involves PaddingtonвЂ™s desire to purchase an old book, which requires him to first bumble through a few odd jobs, such as barbershop assistant and window-washer. It is quite the round-up of respectable British actors, and it all helps to keep this piffle motoring along nicely. New are: Hugh Grant, in the prized comic-villain role Brendan Gleeson, as a soft-hearted prison cook and Tom Conti and Joanne Lumley in small roles. Brown and Imelda Staunton, Michael Gambon, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent and Peter Capaldi reprise their various roles. King has rounded up the old gang for this second outing: Ben Wishaw voices the computer-animated Paddington Hugh Bonneville and Sally Hawkins return as Mr. Paddington - named for the train station where he was discovered by the Brown family - is the much-beloved literary creation of Michael Bond the bear has had many adventures over the decades, but contemporary cinematic effects have made them considerably flashier. Paul King is back in the directorвЂ™s chair to bring to life another tale of the amiable, if clumsy, bear, once of вЂњdarkest Peru,вЂќ now of London.

SALLY HAWKINS PADDINGTON 2 MOVIE

Yes, this is still a rather silly movie about a talking bear, but we look for light where we can.

In the gloom of January - often a dumping ground for uninspired movies that nobody was going to see anyway - comes a rare bloom: Paddington 2, the sequel to 2014вЂ™s Paddington, is better than the first film.

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