Paddington

2014 Directed by Paul King

Please look after this bear. Thank you

A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a new home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family.

Ben Whishaw Hugh Bonneville Sally Hawkins Samuel Joslin Madeleine Harris Julie Walters Nicole Kidman Jim Broadbent Peter Capaldi Imelda Staunton Michael Gambon Madeleine Worrall Tim Downie Matt King Simon Farnaby Kayvan Novak Matt Lucas Jonathan Derbyshire Mary Roscoe Jude Wright Lottie Steer Alice Lowe William Smith Toby Williams Catherine Shepherd Sean Bridgeman Cleo Sylvestre Geoffrey Palmer Gus Brown Show All…

Alternative Titles

Paddington Bear, As Aventuras de Paddington, 패딩턴, 柏灵顿, 柏灵顿小熊大电影, Пригоди Паддінгтона, パディントン, Paddington 1, הדב פדינגטון, Paddington 2014

adventure comedy family

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Review by issy 🥝 ★★★★ 41

Paddington is sad?
SADDINGTON.
Paddington floods the house?
BADDINGTON.
Paddington loses his mind?
MADDINGTON.
Paddington starts a family?
DADDINGTON.
Paddington offers to buy the next round?
ABSOLUTE LADDINGTON.
Paddington but only a bit?
JUST A TADDINGTON.
Paddington replaces the current actor to play Olaf in a Frozen sequel?
JOSH GADDINGTON.
Paddington accidentally headbutts Emma Stone?
SUPERBADDINGTON.
Paddington does a flip on his pastel blue penny board in downtown Cali with the sound of the ocean breeze filling his ears as the palm trees sway in the wind and trace his yin yang wrist tattoo?
RADDINGTON.
Do I regret starting this because I can't find a good place to stop?
YOU BET YOUR ASSINGTON. ok that didn't work. my baddington.
Review by andrea🌹 ★★★★ 1

we love the shthaaaaltudpdcu (sally hawkins takes home an anthropomorphic animal and loves them unconditionally despite public dissent cinematic universe)
Review by davidehrlich ★★★★ 4

PADDINGTON is better than 5 of the 8 movies currently nominated for Best Picture.
also, while we're playing that game, i'll add that it's a better (and more nuanced) immigrant story than THE IMMIGRANT. and it would be even better if sprinkled with Werner Herzog's narration from GRIZZLY MAN.
Review by brat pitt ★★★★ 3

... so are we sure that wes anderson wasn’t like ... the main creative consultant for this production design
Review by brat pitt ★★★★ 3

thinking about renaming my bear-shaped cat from “bradley pitts” to “braddington,” dressing him in a red hat and blue duffle coat, and training him to perform absurdly endearing physical comedy on command. if anyone knows any speech therapists that could help him learn how to say “if you’re kind and polite, the world will be right,” in a posh english accent please let me know!!! <3
Review by Jacob ★★★★½ 8

Paddington Bear is an international hero, a comedic genius, and now my dearest friend. There's a scene where he reads a sign by the escalator saying that dogs must be held, so he steals a random dog and holds it before going on the escalator. Cinema is thriving.
Rating: 85/100
Review by Griffin Newman 2

What a nice bear.
Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★★ 4

Rewatched this before doing an episode on the Bechdel Cast and wouldn’t you know it- the beautiful baby brown bear movie still rules
Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★★

paddington is the cutest fucking thing. i love the little bear boy and would like to protect him at all times
Review by karen h. ★★★★

i love this movie but my mom hates it because "that bear is so irresponsible"
Review by truman ★★★★½

i will never be like other people. but that’s alright. because i’m a bear.
i’m not crying who’s crying not me
Review by Adam Cook ★★★½ 36

Paddington, both in the form of Michael Bond’s original stories and Ivor Wood’s captivating animated series, was always a childhood favourite which was why I was so opposed to the news of a cinematic adaptation. The terrible marketing and soulless trailers only reinforced my original opinion that a film based on the marmalade obsessed bear from darkest Peru was a mistake. How wrong I was.
Ignore everything you’ve seen and forget about other recent CG/live-action hybrid adaptations of much-loved childhood characters, Paddington is a warm, charming and beautifully detailed movie for the whole family. Paddington is as sweet, well-mannered and inquisitive as he was in the pages of Bond’s cherished books whilst the filmmakers expand the world to appeal to…

Recent reviews

Review by yourbrainonhkw

Okay, Mr bitches
Review by ella tremblay ★★★★★

paddington could cure corona with the power of kindness
Review by Saragorn

THE SWEETEST BEAR FROM THE DARKEST PERU WITH AN UNHEALTHY OBSESSION WITH MARMALADE?
OF COURSE I'M: SOFT
Review by Louis ★★★★★

If you don’t like this film, I don’t like you. Simple
Review by klavigne ★★★★½

Took me too long to see this but I must say it was every bit as delightful as I hoped. Paddington oozes style, reminiscent partly of Wes Anderson and Aardman Animations but entirely unique. Every scene is packed with detail and bold artistic choices. There's beautiful sequence where each character of the Brown family is showcased as if in a doll's house/diorama. The geographer's guild is visualized as a secret society with a deeply elaborate and archaic information system. The villain portrayed by Nicole Kidman is a taxidermist by trade but utilizes elite setups more appropriate for a Mission Impossible film. The London contrasts the cold modern reality (rainy weather and racism) with Paddington's idealized postcard vision (tollbooths and the Queen's Guard). There's a mix of classic slapstick and madcap situations but also the distinctly British dry humor. Highly recommend as a film for people of all ages.
Review by shakirabrandon ★★★★★

Amazing
Review by Josh Murray ★★★★★

Boy, I've been underrating this one, huh? (Previously 3.5 stars.)
Any binge of 2010s family films will remind you that children's film entertainment has been in a rut of shortcuts and lack of visual creativity. Paul King's Paddington (like its sequel) is absolutely unrelenting in its staunch refusal to deliver any exposition the boring way, dispatching mountains of lore and intrigue, the information of which is kind of irrelevant because it's presented so well.
A warm bath and diorama of a goddamn movie, Paddington is a real [i]time[/i], and famously an oppositional force to Brexit and racism itself. So it constantly gets the feels even amid its action sequences, which are better setpieces than many action movie and somehow also…
Review by AoifeR ★★★★★

if this doesnt melt your heart I don't know if there's any hope for you
Review by joetime ★★★★

They don’t make movies like this anymore (or when they do they feel soulless and contrived—think every live-action Disney adaptation from the past decade).
Side note to Disney: Do fun stuff in your movies, damnit! Just because it’s set in the “real world” doesn’t mean it has to look like a drab, colorless hellscape inhabited by dead-eyed animals. We can see that by looking outside!
Review by nebulaskys ★★★★

I'm ALWAYS surprised by how fucking good these movies are
Review by clara ★★★★½

Paddington you’re the cutest thing i’ve ever seen, please adopt me
I just want to hug and protect him
Review by francesca ★★★★

this counts as a christmas movie