A young talking bear heads to London in search of a home

Paddington is a 2014 British-French live action/computer animated family comedy film directed by Paul King, written by King and Hamish McColl, and produced by David Heyman. 

Here's a nice surprise. The new CGI-live-action Paddingtion Bear could easily have been another garish, cheapo Brit-movie. Instead, writer-director Paul King (who has worked on The Might Boosh TV show) and co-writer Hamish McColl have created a caharming and sweet-natured family film, full of wit and fun, skewed towards young children but cheekily speckled with sly gags pitched at the older audience.

After an origin myth sequence set in darkest Peru ( Incidentally packed with some outrageous campery), our young, ursine hero arrives in England, to be adopted by the Brown family in their west London townhouse. It is updated from Michael Bond's original tales from the 1950's and 60's. Well, updated a bit. 

An explorer named Montogomery Clyde documents his trip to Darkest Peru. He comes across a rather intelligent species of bears. Years later, a young bear awakens to find that the marmalade fruits have been produced. That night, an earthquake strikes the forest, wrecking the bears home. The Browns take Paddington home where they live with relatives named Mrs. Bird, only for the night until they turn him in to the authorities. During his stay, Paddington learns a thing or two about the Browns - Henry is a real estate agent, Mary is an artist, Judy is seeing a boy named Tony and is learning Chinese to run off there, and Jonathan aspires to be an astronaut.

Paddington is left home alone while the Browns are out. Millicent finds the apartment and attempts to sneak in and grab him. Paddington spots her and, with her gas mask on, he mistakes her for an elephant and runs away. In the struggle, they accidentally cause a fire from the oven. Millicent escapes before anyone notices. When the Browns return, Henry is very upset with Paddington and decides Paddington need to go. Paddington leaves a note for the Browns apologizing for the trouble he's caused as he decide to locate Montgomery Clyde on his own. Mr. Curry then calls the Browns and tells that Paddington is in trouble. The Brown family helps Paddington and they officiallt adopted Paddington as part of their family.

"Marmaladen with glorious silly jokes, pitch-perfect performances and incidental detail, this is a warm, witty and wondrously inventive great big bear-hug of a movie"