Paddington in Peru (2024)
Directed by Dougal Wilson
Paddington travels to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected journey through the Amazon rainforest and up to the mountain peaks of Peru.
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…performs an Andean homage to the Alpine "Sound of Music,"…
Cue a musical number with Olivia Colman as Reverend Mother, complete with an homage to The Sound of Music (there are more nods to popular movies later).
They do give her the best joke in the film with a guitar-strumming ditty that plays over a montage in a nice reference to The Sound of Music.
Clearly riffing on Julie Andrews’ iconic turn in The Sound of Music…
…crooning like a crazed maria from THE SOUND OF MUSIC…
But she sang the title song, and in a manner that recalled Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music!
Paddington in Peru doesn’t have any scenes to rival those in earlier movies that exist just for fun, rather than furthering the narrative, whether that’s Paddington flooding the bathroom, causing mayhem in a barber shop, or working in the kitchens of the prison.
Paddington and Paddington 2 stand apart. It’s no exaggeration to call them two of the best family films of recent times and that ultra-rare example where the sequel is actually better than its predecessor.
Eight years after two perfectly perfect instalments of the bear’s adventures with his adopted English family comes “Paddington in Peru,” a new adventure that is sure to please family audiences, but the ambitious story doesn’t have the magic of the first two films.
Paddington and Paddington 2 are some of the most sure-fire, all-ages crowd-pleasers of the modern era…
The Wes Anderson–inflected London of that 2014 first film was a retort to sentiments that would, two years later, lead to the Brexit referendum, but it was also stubbornly aspirational — a fairy-tale version of the city as it could be, open arms and all.
The two previous Paddington movies are pure confectionary perfection, bringing everyone’s favorite marmalade-obsessed bear to simple, joyful comedic heights.
Paddington and Paddington 2 are some of the most sure-fire, all-ages crowd-pleasers of the modern era…
And in the second film, Paddington even turns a prison into a kind of domestic paradise using nothing but good manners and some fine marmalade.
Paddington and Paddington 2 stand apart. It’s no exaggeration to call them two of the best family films of recent times and that ultra-rare example where the sequel is actually better than its predecessor.
…the type of cinematic nirvana that Paddington 2 achieves…
For example, in Paddington 2, Hugh Grant's musical number was humorous and memorable, while watching Oscar-winner Colman play guitar and sing while dressed as a nun was kind of cringy.
For those expecting this to reach the heights of Paddington 2, you may find yourself disappointed.
There are scenes that feel like they’re ripped straight out of Raiders of the Lost Ark, George of the Jungle, and The Goonies – but it’s always done with warmth and fondness for the originals rather than cheap imitation.
…any number of other loving references to cinema’s past (in particular, “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “Steamboat Bill, Jr.”)
Wilson keeps the pacing quite sprightly and his tributes to iconic movies like Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark and Mary Poppins are pretty fun.
…the cleverest it can muster are cheap references to far superior movies such as The Sound of Music and Raiders of the Lost Ark (and it bashes the latter one to death).
…allusions to other films, not just “The Sound of Music” but the Indiana Jones franchise…
Wilson’s assertion that aspects of the film were influenced, in small part, by Werner Herzog’s “Fitzcarraldo”…
Antonio Banderas, meanwhile, rolls up as Hunter Cabot, a swarthy sea captain whose schooner is tricked out with an old fashioned gramophone à la Herzog’s own opera fiend, Fitzcarraldo.
…a role that tips its hat to both "Fitzcarraldo" and "Kind Hearts and Coronets"…
…even the plot can be seen as a loose parody of Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, the Wrath of God…
This is, no fooling, a loose remake of Herzog’s Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), with Banderas chewing up the scenery as five or six characters (most of whom are ghosts) and doing his best family-friendly Klaus Kinski impression.
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Wilson keeps the pacing quite sprightly and his tributes to iconic movies like Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark and Mary Poppins are pretty fun.
…amusing nods to media titles like Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music…
Cabot himself is a confused, multi-generational manifestation of the D’Ascoyne clan from Kind Hearts and Coronets…
…a role that tips its hat to both "Fitzcarraldo" and "Kind Hearts and Coronets"…
…its taste is still richer than every other live-action family movie of recent memory, like Harold and the Purple Crayon or Mufasa: The Lion King.
MUFASA: THE LION KING which is a rare sequel/prequel in Disney’s series…
…(in particular, “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “Steamboat Bill, Jr.”)
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There are scenes that feel like they’re ripped straight out of Raiders of the Lost Ark, George of the Jungle, and The Goonies – but it’s always done with warmth and fondness for the originals rather than cheap imitation.
…the parachute-through-the-office-window scene is an obvious nod to Mission Impossible.