Very disappointing. All the charm and wit of the first two gone, replaced by an overly complicated adventure set-up and broad 'scary jungle' humour. A competent but unremarkable kids movie.
Strikes me that the Paddington series has so far followed the Wallace & Gromit pattern - first film is a quirky, idiosyncratic story that has an antagonist thrown in at the end but is mostly about British oddballs; second film keeps the idiosyncrasies but ramps everything up a bit for a clever caper; third film goes all in on the action and largely forgets the charm except to repeat bits from the first two occasionally.
So by the next one, I imagine Paddington will be stopping every two minutes to wave a book by JK Growling at the camera or whatever.
Rating: Not very good.
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