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Padding­ton 2 gets a charm­ing first-look trailer

30 May 2017

Words by Adam Woodward

Everyone’s favourite mar­malade-lov­ing bear in back in an all-new fam­i­ly adventure.

When the meme-spawn­ing first trail­er for Padding­ton land­ed in June, 2014, we along with every­one else feared the worst. Thank­ful­ly, Paul King’s film proved to be a com­plete delight, so it’s with a mix­ture of excite­ment and height­ened expec­ta­tion that we greet the first-look teas­er for the director’s follow-up.

Ben Whishaw is back voic­ing the fur­ry pro­tag­o­nist, with Hugh Bon­neville, Sal­ly Hawkins, Julie Wal­ters, Jim Broad­bent, Peter Capal­di, Madeleine Har­ris and Samuel Joslin all repris­ing their roles from the first film. Imel­da Staunton joins the Padding­ton fam­i­ly as Aunt Lucy, and there’s also room in the star-packed cast list for Hugh Grant and Bren­dan Gleeson.

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The offi­cial syn­op­sis hints at everyone’s favourite mar­malade-lov­ing, Peru­vian immi­grant get­ting up to more hijinks: ​“While search­ing for the per­fect present for his beloved Aunt Lucy’s hun­dredth birth­day, Padding­ton spots a unique pop-up book in Mr Gruber’s antique shop, and embarks upon a series of odd jobs to buy it. But when the book is stolen, it’s up to Padding­ton and the Browns to unmask the thief…”

We hope King and co are able to recap­ture some of the mag­ic of the orig­i­nal, which for our mon­ey is one of the best kids’ films of the new mil­len­ni­um. If there’s one thing for cer­tain, it’s that every­one con­cerned will be look­ing to do jus­tice to Michael Bond’s beloved character.

Padding­ton 2 is set for release in the UK on 10 Novem­ber, 2017.

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