PADDINGTON IN PERU

Name: PADDINGTON IN PERU
Item: PADDINGTON IN PERU
Author: Review

"Family Is More Precious than Gold"

Family Content: +1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)

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What You Need To Know:

In PADDINGTON IN PERU, Paddington’s Aunt Lucy goes missing from her Peruvian Home for Retired Bears, run by nuns. Paddington enlists the whole Brown family to help him find her. Paddington hires boat Captain Cabot to take them on a river in search of Aunt Lucy. The captain informs the family they are heading to the center of a legend of the lost gold of El Dorado. What the captain does not disclose to the Brown family is that he’s haunted by greedy ancestral ghosts who all died looking for this treasure.

PADDINGTON IN PERU takes moviegoers on a wonderful, delightful comedy adventure. It has plenty of laughs, as well as several heartfelt moments. The genuine love between Paddington and the Browns is a good example of God’s biblical plan for family. PADDINGTON IN PERU reveals that family is the real treasure, more precious than gold. It also has multiple Christian references promoting faith. However, PADDINGTON IN PERU has many perilous situations, and one villain is haunted by visions of his greedy dead ancestors. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises some caution for younger children.

Content:

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Very strong moral worldview, about a bear searching for his missing aunt and getting mixed up with a greedy villain searching for gold, reveals that family is the real treasure, more precious than gold, and promotes family, discovering one’s roots, kindness, compassion, love, bravery, and good manners, supported by very strong overt Christian content and values, which include nuns run a home for retried bears and another home for retired polar bears, nuns wear crucifixes and bless themselves in the name of the Holy Trinity, a nun says alleluia several times and “Lord be praised,” a character tells title character to “light one candle of faith in the darkness,” woman prays for a miracle, and a miracle occurs, and nun gives woman a St. Christopher medal to protect her on a journey, but there’s a flashback to a priest who gets greedy for the hidden gold and leads other clergy to their death in quicksand, and one nun has a secret, plus greedy villain sees the ghosts of his ancestors who died searching for the legendary gold of El Dorado and they urge him to do bad things;
Foul Language:
No obscenities but there are two light profanities such as “What in God’s name?” and one is rebuked, plus some insults such as stupid, failure and “mangy fur bags”;
Violence:
Many moments of peril throughout, main characters are chased, greedy ancestral ghosts tell man to do bad things such as “kill the bear,” a flashback shows how ghosts died but mostly non-graphic, some hitting, young bear falls off a tree and plummets into a river, young bear plummets down a small waterfall but is saved from plummeting off a larger waterfall, a giant spider lands on man’s face in a comical scene, boat capsizes throwing passengers over, a character is tied up, characters run from a rolling boulder, a musket is drawn, a machete is drawn, man is hit in lower belly with a book, bear sits on a spiky plant, bear falls off another cliff but his trusty London umbrella opens and becomes like a parachute, people do scary stunts to stop a plane from totally crashing, and a plane crash lands, but no one is hurt;
Sex:
No sex scenes, but an anteater licks a man’s face to get ants crawling on him, and he thinks it’s his wife kissing him, and he says, “Not with the kids around”;
Nudity:
No nudity;
Alcohol Use:
A liquor cart tips over and sprays, a character gives a brief comment about a “drunken night,” and a woman proposes a toast;
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:
No smoking or drugs;
Miscellaneous Immorality:
Greedy characters but they are eventually rebuked, a villain pretends to be someone else but is eventually exposed, another villain lies to a family, but his lies are exposed, and duplicitous greedy father lies to daughter and kicks her off a boat to get treasure but says he’ll be back for her later after he gets the gold.

More Detail:

PADDINGTON IN PERU is a comedy adventure, the third in a series flowing a talking bear from Peru who finds a home on London. When his Aunt Lucy goes missing from her Home for Retired Bears in Peru, Paddington enlists the whole Brown family to help him find her. Along the way, they’re ensnared in a centuries-old hunt for the legendary gold of El Dorado. PADDINGTON IN PERU is a wonderful, delightful comical adventure that extols faith, family and good manners, but it contains some life-threatening peril and a greedy villain who sees the ghosts of his ancestors, who died searching for the gold. So, some caution is advised for younger children.

All is well for Paddington in London until he receives a letter from the Reverend Mother at Aunt Lucy’s Home for Retired Bears in Peru. The Reverend Mother informs Paddington that Aunt Lucy is very depressed and downtrodden because she misses Paddington and would love a visit.

Paddington shares the sad news with his London “Brown” family. Mrs. Mary Brown misses the times when her younger family was closer. So, she decides the whole family should go with Paddington to Peru to check on Aunt Lucy. Her husband, Henry, is reluctant, being the careful man that he is. However, he’s recently been encouraged by his new boss that he must take new risks if he wants to succeed in the insurance business. The family brings along their college bound teenager who has no time for her family, and their son is always inventing things so he never has to leave his room.

Once they arrive in Peru, they discover that Aunt Lucy has gone missing. The Reverend Mother convinces the Brown Family and Paddington that they must go find Aunt Lucy in the Amazon rain forest of Peru. Conveniently, Lucy has left some clues and a map in her room. The map leads them to Rumi Rock, where some Incan ruins lie.

Paddington hires boat Captain Hunter Cabot to lead them on a river tour to the place marked on Aunt Lucy’s map. The Captain informs the family that the place they are going to is at the center of a legend of the lost gold of El Dorado. What the captain does not disclose to the family is that he’s haunted by greedy ancestral family ghosts who all died looking for this treasure.

Paddington and his family traverse the traps of treasure hunters and greedy ghosts, as well as the natural dangers of the Amazon. Nevertheless, Paddington’s love gives him the courage to face any danger that comes his way. The love Paddington has in his heart for his family leads him to find himself. Paddington discovers missing pieces from his past in Peru. Paddington also reconnects with the place where he started life but will this determine where he belongs?

PADDINGTON IN PERU takes moviegoers on a wonderful comical adventure through the Amazon rain forest of Peru. There are plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, as well as a few heartfelt tears shed for the heart of a bear who loves his family. The genuine love and sacrifice Paddington and the Brown’s show toward each other is a good example of God’s biblical plan for a family.

PADDINGTON IN PERU is an engaging and entertaining story with beautiful cinematography of the Amazon rain forest. The movie is perfectly cast with some great character types and strong acting all around. It has a strong moral worldview teaching that family is the real treasure, more precious than gold. It also teaches kindness and good manners. Happily, it also has lots of Christian references promoting faith. For example, a nun says it’s best to light a candle of faith when faced with darkness. She also praises the Lord. Finally, the mother says the family needs a miracle, and a miracle occurs.

However, PADDINGTON IN PERU has many perilous situations and greedy ghosts that may be imaginary. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises some caution for younger children.