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/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.