‘Paddington 2’ Loses Top-Rated Spot on Rotten Tomatoes

“Paddington 2” is not the highest-rated movie on Rotten Tomatoes. A damaging overview has dropped the previously-universally-beloved flick’s Tomatometer rating to 99%, tying it with some film referred to as “Citizen Kane.”

On Friday, author Eddie Harrison of film-authority.com posted the overview that ended Paddington’s month-long reign because the best-reviewed film of all time, at the very least by the overview aggregator’s metric. “Citizen Kane,” the movie that many think about Orson Welles’s magnum opus, beforehand held the dignity till an 80-year-old Chicago Tribune overview claiming it “failed to impress” resurfaced in April.

Harrison, doubling down on his gripes from 2017, was a bit extra passionate together with his distaste.

The critic’s points with “Paddington 2” embody every part from the animated bear’s design (“evil, beady eyes and ratty fur”) to star Ben Whishaw’s voice work (“sounds like a member of some indie-pop band coming down from an agonising ketamine high”).

Harrison’s overview, which he initially delivered on BBC Radio, posits that “the charm is entirely missing” from not simply “Paddington 2” however its 2014 predecessor as properly.

But that’s not all. According to Harrison, each the depth and realism of the unique “Paddington” tales are noticeably absent from the fashionable retellings as properly.

“Considerations of race and identity, key to the Paddington character, are not addressed, and the situations that this Paddington finds himself in are contrived and ridiculous,” he wrote. “It simply shouldn’t happen to a bear.”

Harrison concluded his takedown of the lovable bear (and his excellent rating) with some daring claims.

“This just isn’t my Paddington Bear, however a sinister, malevolent imposter who needs to be shot into area, or nuked from area on the first alternative. Over-confident, snide and sullen, this manky-looking bear bears little relation to the traditional character, and viewers needs to be warned; this ain’t yo mamma’s Paddington bear, and it received’t be yours both. Maybe in case you’ve by no means seen the television present and don’t know any higher, this’ll work, however long-term Paddington followers will discover this an excessive amount of to bear.”

Despite what Harrison’s derisive overview would lead you to consider, different critiques of “Paddington 2” describe the movie as “a guiding light in the dark” and even “perfect.”