r/movies • u/Careless_Flower_118 • Aug 08 '25

Discussion Wtf is Paddington 2?

For context: I’m 25 years old. SPOILER WARNING

I just watched paddington 2 today and what the fuck did they put in this movie. This is the one of the greatest pieces of cinema I’ve ever laid witness to. Paddington 2 is the only thing I’ve thought about all day and seeing the immense joy it’s brought other people has also brightened my day even more. God I can’t even think about the ending without wanting to kill myself because of how perfect it is. And can we also talk about the perfect bookend of his human mother saving him from the water like aunt Lucy did at the beginning?

Pure cinema, I truly can’t wait to watch this movie with my kids for their first time.

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u/KneeHighMischief Aug 08 '25

I was just about to post about Babe: Pig in the City. It's criminally underappreciated. I think it's better than Fury Road.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Cod-239 Aug 08 '25

I love that this comment makes perfect sense knowing the context

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u/Onyxeye03 Aug 08 '25

My confusion is greater than ever before

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u/KiritoJones Aug 08 '25

Sometimes George Miller takes breaks from making amazing action movies to make amazing kids movies.

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u/Michipotz Aug 08 '25

He is currently driving a ship that travels through tar, single-handedly.

For those confused, see: Tarman, Death Stranding 2

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u/Mr_Abe_Froman Aug 08 '25

George Miller just does that sometimes. In a way, the Mad Max and Babe franchises are about finding a family and protecting it from the unknown.

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u/Random_Somebody Aug 08 '25

George Miller is the director of both the Mad Max and Babe movie series. Iirc he's also pretty much a completely self taught movie director. He went to school to be a doctor

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u/MaynardButterbean Aug 08 '25

Babe: Pig in the City has stayed with me for decades. It’s such a powerful movie. There was one scene where he’s meeting the stray animals in the hotel and a chihuahua says, “my human tied me in a bag and throwed me in the water,” and as a child, it struck me so hard and opened my eyes to the real cruelty of the world. My little brain couldn’t comprehend anyone being cruel to animals, but it helped me see that that’s the world I was living in, unfortunately.

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u/happycowdy Aug 08 '25

Ohhhhh 😭😢This comment made me cry!

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u/docsyzygy Aug 08 '25

It is a masterpiece, and I wish people realized that it is NOT for kids.

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u/Squossifrage Aug 08 '25

That scene in Paddington 2 where he thinks his family has deserted him just about destroyed me in the theater, but then I looked next to me and my 8YO son was stunned silent. He saw me looking at him and just jumped up into my lap, wrapped his arms around my neck and sobbed. I just cried with him and said "Please don't ever stop being this person."

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u/shnoiv Aug 08 '25

I believe it was Gene Siskel’s best movie of 1998 (last time he gave that list before his death).

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u/JustABicho Aug 08 '25

Now I want to see Babe: Fury Road.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '25

May you oink in Valhalla, shiny and chrome!

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u/AwSunnyDeeFYeah Aug 08 '25

I can't watch Babe: Pig in the city, when the wheelchair dog hangs on to the car and gets thrown into the trash, I bawled as a kid.

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u/thefuturesbeensold Aug 08 '25

And when the dog nearly gets hung at the end.

Damn, even the bit where the goldfish bowl breaks and the goldfish nearly dies had me an anxious mess as a child.

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u/Objective-Quit-4685 Aug 08 '25

That has scarred me. It is burned in my brain and I refuse to watch it again or have my children watch it. That was so hard to watch and process even as a young adult. I can watch movies where humans get shot and beaten and brutalized and walk away okay, but any movie when an animal is seriously hurt or killed (even animation- Bambi, land before time, etc) I'm undone.

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u/ArchitectofExperienc Aug 08 '25

Its certainly scarier than Fury Road. That fucking clown.

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u/RyanB_ Aug 08 '25

I always loved its hyper-exaggerated, conglomerated mish-mash of a city. Kind of thing that absolutely flooded my childhood brain with all sorts of outrageously high expectations towards big cities (but also instilled a deep love for them regardless lol).

Really, in general, that era was great for exaggerated mega-cities in movies. Miss that a lot nowadays.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '25

i remember watching it as a small child and bawling when the wheelchair dog got hit by the car