The jokes are mostly lame, the story absurdly predictable and the characters totally generic.

The movie loses interest whenever the monkey is out of the picture. That’s kind of an issue, yet it isn’t a big one.

Paddington in Peru has its pleasures, however, it also backgrounds some of the better aspects of the series.

A goofy, gag-a-second, very cartoony, animated comedy that is a ton of fun for, as they say, the young and the young at heart.

It is one of the most entertaining movies of the year and a clear favorite to win some Oscars in March.

The charm of the performers, as well as some amusingly straightforward writing, carries this past its clichés for a while.

It is entertaining. Yet the movie practically disappears as it unfolds.

This is a darkly funny, blood-soaked, absurd piece of body horror, where the danger lies in what we will do for acceptance.

What keeps this moving along are its central performances and strange sense of humor, though it's still not enough to hit that next level.

It definitely isn’t boring, though it isn’t exactly coherent, either.