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<em>Paddington 2</em> Is Children's Entertainment at Its Finest

The second film about a mischievous, marmalade-loving bear in Britain is gleefully imaginative and warm-hearted.
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If Hollywood is looking for a pop-culture role model in 2018, it could do worse than Paddington Bear, the adorable CGI version of the classic British children’s character. He’s voiced by Ben Whishaw, hails from “darkest Peru,” wears a pair of spectacles, is fond of orange-marmalade sandwiches, and, as his adoptive father Henry (Hugh Bonneville) puts it, “He looks for the good in all of us and he finds it.” The good can be hard to spot these days, but in, our furry friend does his best to bring it out anyway.

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