Paddington

 

Directed by: Paul King

Memorable quotes:

Explorer: I have learnt so much from these persons but I wonder what, if anything, they have learnt from me. 

Paddington: Good morning aunt Lucy!

Aunt Lucy: Good morning my little hurricane.

Uncle Pastuzo: Why do you have to come crushing in here like a natural disaster?  

Paddington: Why would you want to go anywhere when we live in the best place in the world?

Uncle Pastuzo: Embarrassing but tasty. 

Uncle Pastuzo: A wise bear always keeps a marmalade sandwich in his hat, in case of emergency. 

Aunt Lucy: Stay out of sight until London.

Paddington: But aren't you coming?

Aunt Lucy:  I am too old, too tired to go any further.

Paddington: Then what will you do?

Aunt Lucy: Oh, don't worry about me. I will be safe in the home for retired bears. It is not yet the time for you to retire. You must find a new home. In London.

Paddington: But I don't know anyone there. What of they don't even like bears?

Aunt Lucy: You know, there was once a war in the explorer's country. Thousands of children were sent away for safety, left at railway stations with labels around their necks and unknown families took them in and loved them like their own. They will not have forgotten about how to treat a stranger. Now, take care my darling. Remember your manners and keep safe.  

Paddington: Good morning. Really tipping it down, isn't it? 

Paddington: How do you do? I'm just looking for a home.

Paddington (talking to the pigeons): Go away please, I need to look presentable.

Judy Brown: It was fine until you jumped in the lake.

Mary Brown:  It's a Victorian bathing pond darling, it's what your supposed yo do.

Judy Brown: Not naked.

Mary Brown: Forgot my costume!

Henry Brown: Jonathan don't jump like that. 7% of childhood incident starts with jumping.

Jonathan Brown: But if I'm gonna be an astronaut...

Henry Brown: Well you're not gonna be an astronaut.

Mary Brown: Be whatever you want peanut.

Henry Brown: Stranger danger.

Mary Brown: What? 

Henry Brown: Keep your eyes down. There is some sort of bear over there, probably selling something.

Paddington: Good evening!

Henry Brown: No thank you.

Mary Brown: I hope you don't mind me asking but...shouldn't you be at home?

Paddington: Oh yes I should. But I haven't quite worked out how to find one. 

Mary Brown: Where are your parents?

Paddington: They died when I was small.

Henry Brown: Here we go.

Paddington: All I have is my aunt.

Mary Brown: And where is she?

Paddington: Darkest Peru, in the home for retired bear.

Henry Brown: Yeah, course she is.

Paddington: Did you know bears like marmalade?

Jonathan: I didn't even know bears could talk.

Paddington: Well, I'm a very rare bear. They aren't many of us left. 

Mary Brown: What are you going to do now?

Paddington: Well I thought I would probably just sleep over there in that bin. 

Henry Brown: That's the spirit.

Henry Brown: What's your name? Do bears have name?

Paddington: Course they do. My name is (Paddington starts to growl.)

Henry Brown: Beg your pardon?

Paddington: (Paddington growls again)

Henry Brown: Right.

Paddington: Go on. Try it.

Henry Brown: (He tries to growl)

Paddington: Mister Brown, that is extremely rude.

Mary Brown: Excuse me, I'm awfully sorry, I don't actually know your name.

Paddington: Well, I got a bear name but it seems to be rather hard to pronounce.

Mary Brown: Perhaps you would like an English name?

Paddington: An English name? Like what?

Mary Brown: Oh look Henry, it's perfect.

Henry Brown: You want to call him ketchup?

Mary Brown: No...

Henry Brown: Ketchup the bear?

Mary Brown: Paddington!

Henry Brown: You need a proper guardian.

Paddington: What's that?

Mary Brown: It's a grown up who takes you into their home and looks after you.

Paddington: Like you?

Mary Brown; Yes, I suppose so.

Paddington: But not you?

Henry: We don't do that.

Henry Brown. No, not an orphanage. It would be more like an institution for young souls whose parents have sadly passed on.

Paddington: "Dear aunt Lucy, I have arrived in London and so far it has rained, poured, drizzled and chucked it down. And I miss you. London is not how we imagined it. Hardly anyone says hello or wears hats. And you can no longer simply turn up at the station and get a home. I's hard to see where a bear could ever belong in such a strange, cold city. Luckily, I met the Browns, who are letting me sleep in their attic. They have a lovely house but I'm not going to be allowed to stay.

Paddington: Mister Brown is something called a risk analyst. He says that having a bear in the house increases the chances of disaster by 4000%

Paddington: Judy suffers a serious condition called "embarrassment".

Paddington: She is learning Chinese so she can run away and start a small business.

Paddington: Tomorrow they're taking me to the authorities, who will house me in something that is not an orphanage but it still doesn't sound like the sort of home I'm really hoping for.

Millicent: This creature means a great deal to me.

Tony: Why? Is he in danger?

Millicent: He is now.

Judy: Don't tell anyone at school about Paddington.

Jonathan: Why not?

Judy: Cause everyone thinks we're weird enough without the bear.

Thief: It's some kind of teddy police bear!

Mary Brown: What are you doing?

Henry Brown: I'm doing my looking away face.

Mary Brown: You're doing the breathing.

Henry Brown: I'm doing the breathing.

Henry Brown: They're screaming!

Mary Brown: No darling, that's the sound of laughter.

Taxi driver: I'm afraid I can't tell you that love.

Millicent: Why not?

Taxi driver: Well it's against the cabbie code.

Millicent: The what?

Taxi driver: The cabbie's code. An oath of confidentiality we take. You know, like your doctors, your priests, your medieval knights. You do understand, don't you love?

Henry Brown: This is never going to work.

Mary Brown: Course it will. You look very pretty.

Henry Brown: That's what they'll say in jail.

Geographer Guild's receptionist: Something's stopping the system.

Geographer n°1: I think it's a baguette.

Geographer n°2: Is that peanut butter?

Geographer n°3: Too orange. I think it's...

Geographer n°4: Marmalade!

Millicent: Being such a pillar of the community, I can see why having that beast next door would upset you so.

Mr. Curry: I suppose I should be grateful that it's only one bear. 

Millicent: Oh but it always starts with just one Mr. Curry. Soon the street will be crawling with them, drains  clogged with fur.

Paddington: It wasn't my fault.

Henry Brown: Who else was in the house? The front door was still locked.

Paddington: It was an elephant.

Jonathan: An elephant? 

Paddington: It had the head of an elephant and the body of a snake. But it tried to shoot me.

Mrs. Bird: Have you been drinking soap water?

Mrs. Bird: You just don't get it, do you?

Mr. Brown: What?

Mrs. Bird: This family needed that wee bear every bit as much as he needed you.

Mary Brown: He's about 3ft6. He's got a bright red hat on and a blue duffle coat. And he is a bear.

Policeman: It's not much to go on.

Mary Brown: Really?

Millicent: That's right. I'm going to stuff you bear.

Henry Brown: Paddington, Paddington, up here!

Paddington: Is that you, God?

Henry Brown: What?

Paddington: It's just, you sounds a lot more like Mr. Brown that I imagined.

Henry Brown: It is Mister Brown!

Millicent: Come on, hand over the bear.

Mary Brown: No, we won't do that. He is family.

Millicent: Family? He is not even the same species.

Paddington: It's true.

Henry Brown: It is true. And when I first met Paddington I wanted nothing to do with him. But my wonderful wife, she opened her heart to him and so did my incredible children and now I have too. It doesn't matter that he comes from the other side of the world or that he is a different species, or that he has a worrying marmalade habit. We love Paddington and that means he is family. And family stick together. So if you want him, you'll have to take us too. 

Millicent: Okay then.

Paddington: Hmm, could I have one last request?

Millicent: What is it?

Paddington: I'd like a sandwich. There is one in my hat.

Millicent: Go on then.

Mary Brown: I think every house should have a marmalade day. 

Judy: And a bear.

Henry Brown: Especially a bear.

Judy: I'm sorry she's weird. But we all are.

Paddington: Mrs. Brown says that in London everyone is different. But that means anyone can fit in. She must be right because even though I don't look like anyone else, I really do feel at home. I will never be like other people, but that's alright because I'm a bear. A bear called Paddington.

Plot: When a young Peruvian bear must leave his home due to an earthquake, his aunt sends him to London, hoping he will find a home there.

Trailer:

Review:

  I have never read any of the Paddington books as a child nor did I ever watched the T.V. series, so I had no clear expectations when I went to see Paddington at the movie theater. I just knew it featured the Paddington bear and that he looked so damn cute. And I can officially say that yes, Paddington is freaking adorable and I just wanted to cuddle him throughout the film. As an adult I was a bit bothered by the amount of children that were present in the cinema, but it only confirmed that Paddington is a film that adults and children can both genuinely enjoy so no matter how old you are, go watch it!

What was interesting to me though was that the children didn’t seem to react at the same time I did, and we wouldn’t not necessarily laugh at the same time either, which is good because it shows there is really something for everyone in this movie.

There isn’t one thing I did not like. The cast was brilliant, although Nicole Kidman was really weird but hey, maybe she was just playing her part really well. Mister and Mrs. Brown, played respectively by Hugh Bonneville and Sally Hawkins as well as their children played by Madeleine Harris and Samuel Joslin were just amazingly odd, British, funny and cute and I could go on for a while. As for July Walters she brilliant as usual. 

I also loved the cinematography and it really made me miss London!

As expected, Paddington is created with CGI and while I am not always a huge fan of  CGI at times as they tend to overdo it, it was actually really well done for this film and the bear was just too cute for words.