Rent Paddington in Peru (2024)

Disappointing 3rd Film - Paddington in Peru review by GI

Basically this is Paddington does Indiana Jones in a lacklustre third outing that lacks the wit, comic timing, ideas and above all the magic of the first two films. With a new director there seems to be a sense that this is a by-the book film that is hampered by a mediocre script and feeble laughs. It also lacks a decent baddie,here with Antonio Banderas hamming it up and hardly trying. There's a mid end credits sequence with Hugh Grant which is the best bit of the whole film. Hugh Bonneville returns and Emily Mortimer replaces Sally Hawkins and Olivia Colman has a key role as a nun. The story is all summed up in the title really, Paddington is lured to Peru ostensibly to visit his Aunt Lucy, only to find she has gone missing and so he and the Brown family set off into the Amazon to find her and get into all sorts of mostly dull scrapes. Of course there's a plot behind all this and you have to remember this is basically for children but is missing the adult themed aspects that made the first two such a joy. A family film suitable for younger children, the rest will be disappointed.