While Paddington may have found a new home in London, he still thinks of his home in Darkest Peru, and most especially of his Aunt Lucy (voiced by Imelda Staunton). Paddington has settled into the family and the Windsor Gardens community. Paddington 2builds on the themes of the first film and uses the extra narrative space not to avoid repeating the same story it also expands its focus from the family to the community. We catch up with Paddington (voiced by Ben Whishaw) and the rest of the Brown family a short amount of time following the first film. Instead, Paul King used the adaptation to tell a funny, heartwarming, visually-inventive tale about the immigrant experience, the vibrancy of a multicultural city, and the flexibility of family. The (mostly) live-action adaptation of the Michael Bond books about a bear and his family probably could have phoned it in and made a fair amount of money off of name recognition and nostalgia alone. This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who saw Paddington. There is no sign of sequel-itis in Paddington 2. But have no fear, human and bear friends. There’s a tendency with sequels, perhaps especially family-friendly ones, to repeat the story that was so popular in the original.
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