If you decry the lack of quality family entertainment these days, you really should fire up a copy of the new Blu-ray release of Paddington 2, from Warner Brothers. Paddington is an animated bear who I understand is a staple of British culture via a series of books I never read. Heck, I never saw the first Paddington movie from 2014, either, and never really felt the urge to. Then Warner Home Video sent me the new Blu-ray of the sequel and I put it on hoping it might be something I could watch with my grandsons. And boy, is it ever! I enjoyed Paddington 2 so much that I'm going to seek out the original flick as well because, well, sequels as a rule are generally not as good as the original (in my experience), and so all things being equal I should enjoy the original even more than this sequel. Watch that blow up in my face! Anyway, Paddington is a recue bear – rescued initially by a pair of adult bears just before he and the log on which he's hanging get swept over a huge waterfall in South America (do they really have bears there?). Action then picks up in "present day", with the little bear now settled happily in London with the Brown family, where he has carved out a niche and become a very popular member of the local folks - spreading, as Warners' PR stuff says "joy and marmalade wherever he goes".

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