Paddington 2 vs Muppets Most Wanted

Pad 2 because of Gleeson

Write in votes wont arrive in time alas

nv otm

Pad 2 because of everything about it

(Most Wanted is very good)

(sigh) Do I need to watch this gahdamn Most Wanted thing already? I am a ridiculous Henson fan but have been underwhelmed (at best) by every post-Henson Muppet production. I've heard an awful lot of people hype up Kermit in a Mustache: The Movie, though.

Paddington 2 because of Noah Taylor

Did you see Muppets reboot 1, OL?

This is like that, minus the two biggest annoyances and with a fuller focus on capers.

You'd think Gervais in would just be subbing one of those annoyances, youd be wrong he's p much a joy in it

As always to the rest of ye i hate to tap the sign yet you will forever see me tapping the sign, these movies are out a long time if ye werent just challoping along then why didn't we see polls with yr preferred wrong answer before now? Get fucked.

nb that if OL did not see the untitled Muppets movie, there is no need to do so before watching Most Wanted

I did see SegelMuppets, which was basically just Segel having a felt fangasm for 90 minutes, which I'm sure was fine for some but I was decidedly not the audience.

NB: there are times when I feel that The Great Muppet Caper is the apex of comedy filmmaking, so these newfangled capers had better be humdingers.

If you accumulate any more fluff outve yr navel considering this you'll be able to audition, weve spake our piece its two thumbs up come back and tell us we were right tyvm

going in on pad2 now (8 minutes ago)

lol jim broadbent's jacob bronowski voice

real hedz know

getting a bit dizzy trying to work out when Pad2 is meant to be set

it's like a vortes of anachronism in every direction

film in which small talking bear introduces marmalade to the english, is unrealistic

(adding: while anachronism is generally an irrational bother to me here it's extremely good)

knuckles's accent is somewhat less easy to place

Most Wanted was fine the once, but Paddington 2 is such gentle perfection, with Hugh Grant an excellent Muppet himself. Lots of capering between the two of them, but neither features a particularly great caper, iirc.

patlabor 2 vs. malibu's most wanted

I would be surprised thats not v close to gleesons natural accent

I didn't think Paddington was introducing marmalade to the whole nation, just to Knuckles, whose culinary upbringing was sheltered

Neither film offers a realistic portrayal of prison life imo

paddington 2 is better than paddington 1, but muppets most wanted isn't better than muppets reboot 1, so paddington

(sigh) Do I need to watch this gahdamn Most Wanted thing already? I am a ridiculous Henson fan but have been underwhelmed (at best) by every post-Henson Muppet production.

Muppets Most Wanted is without question the best Muppet movie since Muppets Take Manhattan.

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you think MMW is better than the preceding one?

Yes, clearly so tbh

Details are on various other threads but common points made to support include walter the muppet being a dreadful central character and there not being enough capering

Cameos/human cast better in MMW, as are the songs

NB still liked preceding one just fine

I should rewatch it. I liked it when it came out, but I never saw it again (unlike the earlier one, which I've watched three times, not really intentionally, but I've run across it on tv and kept it running twice). Amy Adams and Jason Segal were really the best things about that though, admittedly, and walter was boring.

movie was sad, esp the part where Walter was eaten by a lion

Segal, Adams and Chris Cooper all great tbf

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7% otm

I now agree with the majority vote here tbh

deems otm

3rd best British movie of the 21st century...

https://www.massive-cinema.com/storyboard/best-british-film-21st-century-poll-results

I know we're not spoiled for choice but that's a pretty grim list

Extremely dubious about The Lobster, In The Cut and Power Of The Dog counting as British films

Ditto Inside Llewyn Davis.

It was a co-production between Studio Canal and Anton Capital Entertainment, the latter being based in London.

But yeah, seems pretty nebulous.

oh god The Magic Faraway Tree is so fucking good

I'm intrigued, the books are *dreadful* and I refused to read them ever again after reading them to my older daughter. I've seen the trailer and obviously they've heavily modernised it. My kids are going to see it tomorrow but without me!

Great! Kid is excited to see it, but partner and I are cinema-wary after Hoppers, which was great but much too scary for a (our) six year old - I’m hoping Faraway Tree has less Terminator robots with flayed skin

We’re reading the first book - I would probably find it dreadful but there is too much family sentimental attachment to the series over generational reads. And they’re not *too* bad. I find the boy annoying, though - I try to read the boy as a whiny mansplainer with patient, long-suffering sisters

Incidentally the second half of P2 is way too miserable. I blame Pixar’s over-influence. Stop making me and my kids so sad, you assholes!

I think Farnaby as a writer has really nailed something: positive and very funny without resorting to winking to the adults or revelling in grimness. Age range at the cinema today bore that out too

I loved the books as a kid - only Blytons I've got love for really - as does my daughter. Of course there are rubbish aspects but the general concept and the non-human characters are great. The cast for the movie is just perfect.

It probably doesn't hit the heights of Paddington 2 but who cares, it was a joyous experience beginning to end

quite a Mizayaki-ish vibe to some of the landscape shots too. anyway rather than gush let's just say i enjoyed it too much to pick at any hanging threads

This was TORTURE, basically a 100 minute John Lewis Christmas ad

I can't remember wanting to walk out of a movie so much since Attack of the Clones

If you're expecting a fun adventure with magical creatures, you get that (and those bits are good) but that's roughly 20 mins of the film. The other 80% is Andrew Garfield getting misty-eyed about his tomato patch and pretending to be Italian, and Clare Foy designing an irrigiation systems (this is not a lie). AWFUL

There is also a lot (like, REALLY a lot) of cringe material about kids being idiots who can't give up their screens, kids and adults with mad libs tragic backstories, and Silkie gets a lecture about not being appropriately feminist. It's very... Chris Chibnall

Also what sort of monster makes a kids' movie about EATING TOMATOES

Anyway my partner and kid loved it