Paddington In Peru is an adventure-comedy movie, the third in the Paddington series. Paddington returns to his home in Peru, with the Browns in toe, worried about his Aunt Lucy.
Ben Whishaw as the voice of Paddington maintains his affable charm but doesn't bring anything particularly new. The same is true of the returning cast save for the, kind of jarring, casting swap of Sally Hawkins for Emily Mortimer, Hawkins evidently wanted to move on but her presence is missed here. As with the previous two Paddington films the real fun is had by the A-list guest stars in this case Olivia Colman and Antonio Banderas, who both give it 100% and are having a blast. A solid cast if lacking some of the spontaneity and spark of the predecessors.
The production is solid but there's more CGI here and less of an opportunity for the fun, intricate set pieces which made Paddington and Paddington 2 great. The script is successful, the journey has a continuity of style and feeling with the 'franchise' but it all just feels like a bit of a reach, a bit forced. It's not bad by any means, it's fun and entertaining and plucks at the heart strings but with how good the series has been so far this definitely does not top in anyway what has gone before. Maybe that's an unfair yardstick to measure this by but it's impossible not to compare.
Pleasant, pleasing, but perhaps too formulaic and in the shadow of its own success.
Currently in theaters.
Rent It.
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