And this week's Friday night movie has been... Paddington 2!
I saw the original back in 2020 - and as I recall, thoroughly enjoyed - so seeing this was pretty much inevitable.
It may be easy to dismiss this movie as more of the same but personally, as it worked so well the first time around that is by no means a bad thing. Considering that the trick of 'kids movie adults can watch without their kids' is a very difficult one to pull it off, that they managed to do it a second time around is a damn near miracle. It is funny, heart-warming, never once condescending and the cast are clearly having an absolute ball. Needless to say, I don't know what the creative team behind this did to have to pull out something this consistently good but it's worked gangbusters.
And it's always nice to end this year on a positive note. So thank you, dear reader, for joining me on this year's clutch of weekly movies and I hope to speak to you again on the other side of 2023
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