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I can not believe that the movie critics called it the greatest sequel of this decade and... its very good but criminal offence its not perfect. Honestly just go watch it its that good but without a further-a-do lets get into it: The opening is good: I like I appreciate that they went out of their way to create a flesh out town with people, like they could easily not do that and just focus on Paddington and the family but they didn't. The people feel like they have character and none of them feel annoying or out of place. Its nice to see people who are pleasant to each other and it works surprisingly well. The Tone is consistent: I like the movie has a light hearted silly tone and has some of its grounded moments. Its a difficult task to do to balance the tone. The comedy: The comedy is pretty funny because it feels natural to play in and put Paddington in a situation like when he throw a red sock to the washing machine and cut to all of the prisoners and Paddington wearing pink clothes which later became nice people. The visuals are amazing: As a visual perspective its a very good looking movie and has so many creative visuals, like when Paddington see Aunt-Lucy in an pop-up book around London or the drawing scene when Mrs Brown vision her dream it's has so much talent and effort put in. That's because that is the charming style of Paul King. Well you can say he's the king of camera! Get it? Anyways. Paddington is an likeable character: I love Paddington because he has a goal for Aunt-Lucy birthday by earning money as a window cleaner and getting the pop-up book of London which is pretty wholesome. Ben Whishaw does an amazing performance for Paddington by capturing the sweet and caring which is very charming. If this was voice by a child it might be annoying but thankful they didn't. I love the animation on him ,like Rocket he brings so much life to it and its animated very well unlike The Lion King remake which looks soulless and feels uncanny to me and Garfield which looks too cartoony and feels like he isn't there. Paddington also feels real and it takes time to do that so that is something I appreciate a lot from the Paddington movies. The family: What's without Paddington with a family. I like that they aged the kids up and I like Mr and Mrs Brown personality is still constant from the first and still give a great performance. The boy has this thing where he likes model trains but no he now a cool kid but then he knows about trains and says yeah I know about steam trains, honestly that is the weirdest part of the movie because we get to see nothing about he struggles without trains or doesn't feel like the same person and gets no character ark and I found that bizarre. The liar reveal is the weakest part of the movie: Like Chicken Run the second act is pretty fun and entertaining but it has a prison escape story act the part when the liar reveal came into play. Nuckles lied to Paddington by using him as an escape key and going to another country instead of clearing Paddington's name. This part where Paddington says you lie to me might be the weakest line from the entire movie but the gang eventually did came back so its not completely pointless. I'm saying this is a bad scene or any means its the least important scene to me since I had seen so many movies with that trope before Paddington 2 came out. The villain is good: I like the villain because he disguise himself as different people and steal the gold because of his grand father's past. I love he is very egotistical of himself . I like the movie reveal the villain early is and not the stupid twist villain which he is good guy but secretly evil the whole time nonsense. I love that he has a grand father who in the past is blinded by jealousy which makes him more of a flesh out character like the previous villain but unlike the previous villain I personality find him more memorable then the previous one and Hugh Grant performance is also supreme. The train scene is cool: As a sucker for trains this is my favourite scene from the entire movie and I love it included the Tornado locomotive which is one of the newest steam trains. (built in 2008 and reached 100mph by the same year) Final thoughts: Overall The Paddington movies are very good and its surprising considering we are given so many book adaptation like The Lorax or live-action cartoon characters like The Smurfs are mostly pretty bad but here a live-action adaptation from a beloved character which shouldn't work but it did. It has great characters , good comedy , balance of tone and a heart felt passion. Conclusion: If I had one phrase to describe the Paddington movies it would be.... Over the moon. These movies has charm and feels genuine despite having a lot of prises I think it deservers it . Honestly this is one of those movies that you never hear a bad word about from the critical reviews. I think its Paul King's cinematic masterpiece. I think this is the best movie of 2017! That's everything I got to say! Like it? Love it? don't hate it? What's your thoughts on Paddington 2?