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A beloved household movie with an virtually 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes is being taken off of Netflix in simply two days. Paddington 2 is a 2017 live-action animated comedy movie directed by Paul King and written by King and Simon Farnaby.

Based on the tales of Paddington Bear, created by Michael Bond (to whom the movie can be devoted, as Bond had handed away that yr), it’s the second instalment within the Paddington movie collection. The movie stars Ben Whishaw because the voice of Paddington, with Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Brendan Gleeson, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi and Hugh Grant in live-action roles. In the movie, after Paddington is framed and imprisoned for a housebreaking he didn’t commit, he and his household should discover the actual perpetrator and show his innocence. In its first weekend within the UK, the movie grossed $10.9 million (£8.3 million), greater than the primary movie ($8/£6 million), changing into StudioCanal’s highest-grossing movie opening weekend within the UK up to now. Paddington 2 obtained vital acclaim and was nominated for 3 BAFTAs: Outstanding British Film, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor, for Grant.

On evaluate aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Paddington 2 has an approval ranking of 99% based mostly on 253 critiques, with a median ranking of 8.7/10.

The web site’s vital consensus reads: “Paddington 2 honours its star’s rich legacy with a sweet-natured sequel whose adorable visuals are matched by a story perfectly balanced between heartwarming family fare and purely enjoyable all-ages adventure.”

In January 2018, it turned the most-reviewed movie ever to keep up a 100% ranking on the positioning, with 164 optimistic critiques.

In 2021, the 100% rating for Citizen Kane (1941), usually thought to be the best movie ever made, was modified to 99% following the inclusion of a up to date unfavorable evaluate; some publications satirically labelled Paddington 2 as a greater movie than Citizen Kane as a result of their respective scores.

In May 2021, Paddington 2’s rating dropped to 99% after a unfavorable evaluate was registered on the positioning.

On Metacritic, one other evaluate aggregator, the movie has a weighted common rating of 88 out of 100 based mostly on 38 critics, indicating “universal acclaim”.

Leslie Felperin of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, “Paddington 2 won’t save the world, sadly, but its existence makes everything just that tiny bit better and more, well, bearable.”

Guy Lodge of Variety wrote, “Another close to pawfect household leisure, honouring the cosy, can-do spirit of Michael Bond’s tales whereas bringing them easily right into a bustling, numerous twenty first century London—with area for some gentle anti-Brexit subtext in addition.”

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote, “The movie is pitched with insouciant ease and a lightness of contact at each kids and adults with none self-conscious shifts in irony or tone: it is humour with the citrus tang of top of the range thick-cut marmalade.” In 2019, The Guardian ranked Paddington 2 the 69th finest movie of the twenty first century.

Paddington 2 is leaving Netflix on December 31. The third instalment of the collection, Paddington in Peru, was launched in 2024. The movie follows the Brown household as they journey by way of the Peruvian jungle to seek out Paddington’s aunt, Lucy.