Paddington 2 loses 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating

Collect your pitchforks and lightweight your torches, as a result of we’re gonna burn this mom down! Should you’re somebody who locations a variety of inventory on what Rotten Tomatoes has to say, then you definitely could be a bit dismayed to study that PADDINGTON 2 has lately misplaced the honour of the highest film in accordance with Rotten Tomatoes.

Because of a review from Movie Authority’s Eddie Harrison, Paddington 2‘s Rotten Tomatoes rating has been knocked from a powerful 100% to a pathetic 99%. Harrison’s overview claims that Paddington 2 does not have the identical spirit as the youngsters’s books on which it is primarily based, calling the conditions Paddington finds himself in “contrived and ridiculous.” He additionally units his sights on Paddington himself, calling the film incarnation of the beloved bear “over-confident, snide and sullen,” even including that voice-actor Ben Whishaw seems like  “a member of some indie-pop band coming down from an agonizing ketamine excessive.” Goodness. Paddington 2 is not the one prestigious movie to lately lose its 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating, as an unearthed 80-year-old overview additionally knocked Citizen Kane down a peg last month.

RELATED: Paddington 3 is officially in the works

Whereas we’re speaking Paddington, StudioCanal revealed earlier this year {that a} third movie is within the works, saying “We are able to affirm Studiocanal is working very laborious on movie 3 with the utmost craft and care — as with movie 1 and a pair of.” Whereas there aren’t any particulars on what kind of marmalade-filled misadventure Paddington shall be entering into this time, it is seemingly that director Paul King is not going to be returning. King advised Empire last year that though the 2 Paddington films had been “one of many nice treats of my life, sooner or later you simply must cease. It could be a time for anyone else to do a twist on it. I am attempting to not do a 3rd bear film, which is a big, large mistake.” That mentioned, he’ll nonetheless be concerned with the franchise as an govt producer.