Paul King, the director of the previous two films, has decided not to direct this installment
Narrative
Paddington returns to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now lives at the Home for Retired Bears. The Brown family is on an exciting adventure as a mystery takes them on an unexpected journey. However, he came up with the idea for this third film and was involved as an executive producer.
I love Paddington 1 and 2
Appeared in Graham Norton and guests: Billy Crystal/Emily Mortimer/Hugh Bonneville/Pharrell Williams/Michael Kiwanuka (2024). I always knew that with a different director, a different setting and story and whatever, the third film in the series would be unique. There were three problems with this film for me.
The first is the weak script
I failed to connect with the film, and the poor script was the reason for this. The charm of the franchise, which was always noticeable and used in the first two, is irrelevant. And because of the healthy feeling that you don’t know, the lack of charm, it kills the film completely.
nowhere near those levels
The third problem is the lack of character development, the way the characters were developed in the first and second films are brilliant, and excellent, and while it is hard to do that with this film, it was still bad. The second film was the best from Hugh Grant’s excellent acting to good role modeling and character development. Sally Hawkins is not in this film, and she is a big loss, although Emily Mortimer does a good job in her role, what she has, she is missed, and she could have made this film better.
There are some beautiful episodes that will take your breath away
The film has some great moments from the iconic look to the plot twists, I would say this has its good moments, I will pick out the bad parts of this film, nevertheless it is decent. If you follow the franchise and have seen the first two, this is different and unique, but good to watch. 7.9/10 for me.