Saturday 28 December 2013

Paddington

This Christmas, for the first time, i watched A Charlie Brown Christmas and The Snowman. Charlie Brown was pretty much as expected by i was unaware that The Snowman contained no dialogue apart from a bit of Aled singing in the middle. As it was only 25 minutes or so long i watched it but was left wondering just why so many people love it, Frosty was far superior if you are looking for an animated Christmas film to watch.
Another animation i was never keen on was Paddington Bear and i have seen an advert for the film that is due to come to cinema screen and torrent website in the new year.
The adverting blurb says: 'Paddington follows the comic misadventures of a young Peruvian bear with a passion for all things British, who travels to London in search of a home'.
That's bound to set off the right wingers who are frothing at the mouth at the thought of millions of Bulgarians and Romanians travelling to Britain in search of a home.    
I don't know, those Peruvians bears coming over here, taking our homes, jobs and marmalade from hardworking British bears. It's an outrage. We won the War you know!
I will treat the Paddington film just how everybody should treat manic right winger nutters who think we are about to be swamped by East Europeans and swerve it thanks.

2 comments:

Cheezy said...

I used to love that old stop-motion TV version of Paddington. I didn't realise they'd now made a film version. I can imagine it'll be about 15,000 times more expensive, but not have even 10% of the charm.

Plus I'm old and cynical now, that doesn't help.

Lucy said...

I think it was because of the way it looked, the jerky stop motion and cut out characters with the shakily drawn black and white background, i just never really warmed to it. The blurb does state that it is a mix of of live action and CGI but doesn't say who is doing the voices.