Paddington

Went today with wife and three kids. I was expecting to hate it, and I loved it! Very visually inventive, nice story, excellent cast. And it's set in London. A sort of hyper-realistic steampunk London, but still.

The story? It's basically The Blind Side meets The Golden Compass, with a sprinkling of Nanny McPhee.

The female cast are uniformly wonderful. There's Julie Walters as the elderly aunt, and Madeleine Harris as the teenage daughter.


But the standouts are Nicole Kidman as the villain, and Sally Hawkins as the mom. I love them both, for different reasons.