What's your favorite moment in the movie? (SPOILER ALERT!)

Definitely the scene with the british royal guard and his royal sandwich complete with a British flag atop lol.

Definitely when Mr. Brown tries to say Paddington's name in "bear language." I also really liked the part when Paddington was going down the escalator at the train station.

*All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.*🎭

It isn't techinncally one moment, but I enjoyed how each family member had a seeming mundain skill that was needed at the end: the mother's knowledge of the sewer, the daugther's skill with languages that had allowed her to pick up bear quickly, the son's knowledlge of chemistry and engineering, and the father's boldness and daring--qualities he did at first seem to have but which had already had been revealed he once possessed and only surpressed because of the birth of his children.

I loved the film so I don't think I have a favourite moment as such, but there was one moment where I just wanted to pick up Paddington and cuddle him. It's the scene where the Brown family are watching the film of the explorer when he met the bears in Darkest Peru. Paddington steps through the black and white film into the colourful Peruvian jungle that was his home. He's just a CGI bear but the scene broke my heart, he was so homesick. Paddington is just a little boy who wants to be in a family.
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When Paddington first meets Mrs Brown and the neon sign for found outside the lost and found office lights up.

Bear flu?

I loved this film so much that, having watched it once and read a review and some board comments, I watched it again straight away – in part to look out for wee gems which other folk noticed but I missed on first viewing. So here’s some of my fave Paddington moments.

Immigration – Yes Please!
• The Afro-Caribbean calypso band popping up like a musical Greek chorus, as a telling illustration of one of the many ways in which London has benefited from being enriched by immigrant cultures.
• European antique store owner Mr Gruber (Jim Broadbent) contributing to the economic success and colourful diversity of Portobello Road Market.
• The protagonist family showing the better side of Britishness by assimilating a brown ‘illegal immigrant’ into their family (and it’s sweet that they are already known as the Browns).

Background Detail
• Human foot sculpture at the foot of the stairs in the Brown’s home (thanks to FlickFilosopher MaryAnn Johanson’s wonderful review » http://www.flickfilosopher.com/2014/11/paddington-movie-review-please- look-movie-thank.html).
• ‘Lost’ and ‘Found’ sign commenting on plot developments at Paddington Station (thanks to steveruby).
• Stuffed animal heads line the walls of the entrance hallway to the offices of the NHM’s Director of Taxidermy – and the rest of each animal sticks out of the other side of the wall!

Magical Realism and Childlike Imagination
• Animated talking photos in Judy’s bedroom
• A dolls house in the attic room encapsulates the whole Brown home in which it’s contained, including all of its occupants in miniature
• Mr Gruber’s childhood immigration to London comes alive within the miniature train inside his antique shop
• Paddington walks straight through the 2D B&W movie screen and into his 3D colourful Peruvian cloud forest ecosystem of origin
• The stairwell’s painted tree blossoms are blown away when Paddington is lost to the Browns, and they bloom again when he’s confirmed as a Brown family member

Sly Satire
• Modern parents’ overprotective and risk aversive attitudes actually get quantified by Mr Brown’s pedantic risk evaluation percentage quoting, and Triumph Bonneville (geddit?) to Volvo estate car transition
• Right-wing nosy neighbour Mr Curry (Peter Capaldi) has his anti-immigrant and sexist prejudices played upon by a villainously manipulative Millicent (Nicole Kidman)

Canny Anti-Goof Lampshade Hanging
• Rather than invite an ‘Errors in geography’ Goofs entry, pointing out as how a taxi ride from Paddington Station to Windsor Gardens wouldn’t take in the central London iconic buildings montage we see, our ‘CAB 81E’ (Matt Lucas) explains as how he was deliberately showing a new visitor to town some of the typical tourist sights

🐈 dalinian