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All this increasingly turbulent action is driven by the little bear’s desire to get hold of the pop-up book for Aunt Lucy. King includes aerial and underwater stunts as well as shots of the little bear clambering on the top of the railway carriages. At the most hair-raising moments, the little bear makes ingenious use of toffee apples to keep himself from falling. In the final reel, there is a great train chase which starts at Paddington station and ends deep in the countryside. In its zanier moments, the film takes on the momentum of a Coen brothers’ screwball comedy. King has filled Paddington 2 with character actors and comedians (Joanna Lumley, Noah Taylor, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Jessica Hynes and Richard Aoyade among them) who are all given their bits of comic business. Aunt Lucy wouldn’t like that and he quickly pulls himself together. For just a moment, when the Browns don’t come to visit him, he thinks he is all alone in the world and succumbs to self-pity. Of course, Paddington charms them all eventually and makes them share his love of marmalade sandwiches. He has misadventures in the prison laundry and in the kitchens, which are presided over by the filthy-tempered “Knuckles” McGinty (Brendan Gleeson, looking just as imposing as Eric Campbell in the old Chaplin shorts). The bear is surrounded by ruffians and low-lives. The prison sequences provide the most Chaplinesque moments in the film. Thanks to Buchanan’s trickery, Paddington ends up behind bars. Such booty may help him pay for a new one-man show. He wants the pop-up book because he thinks it will lead him to a hidden hoard of gold and jewellery.
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Grant enjoys himself as the embittered thesp, a master of disguise who can vanish in a puff of smoke and who’ll dress up as a nun one moment and as a Fagin-like ruffian the next. He plays Phoenix Buchanan, a once distinguished actor now reduced to doing gourmet dog food commercials. Hugh Grant is the equally camp baddie this time round. In the first Paddington film, Nicole Kidman was the pantomime-style villainess.