Paddington In Peru review: Pooh's third adventure isn't a whisker on its predecessor but it still pushes the boat out - all the way down the Amazon! writes BRIAN VINER By Brian Viner For The Daily Mail Published: 22:35, 3 November 2024 | Updated: 22:49, 3 November 2024 e-mail View comments Rating: The honey has finally run out for Winnie-the-Pooh. According to the latest poll on this hairiest of questions, Britain’s favourite fictional bear is now the one with the marmalade sandwich under his hat – and Paddington in Peru can only compound his exalted new status. Although a whisker-less entertaining than 2017’s sublime Paddington 2, this eagerly-awaited third adventure certainly pushes the boat out – and indeed down the Amazon, where I suspect the hand of co-writer Mark Burton in playfully referencing The African Queen, the Indiana Jones films, The Sound of Music and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Burton also wrote the forthcoming (and fabulous) Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, which similarly is full of nods to classic movies. At 32 Windsor Gardens, Paddington (splendidly voiced once more by Ben Whishaw ) receives a letter telling him that his beloved Aunt Lucy, resident at a Home for Retired Bears in his native Peru, is ailing and wants him to visit. Legally, he can.
Despite a photo booth debacle (a lovely rip-off of the 1987 Hamlet commercial, featuring Gregor Fisher as the hapless ‘Baldy Man’) , Paddington now has a precious British passport. So, much as he prefe.
