Paddington 2 (2017 Paul King & co-scr)

Thoroughly enjoyed this, much more than the first one - King and Simon Farnaby wrote it, with Capra in mind (and Chaplin - Modern Times is clearly referenced at one point).

Has a drop dead cast one after the other from Bonneville to Ayoade.

In the prison scene, with the pink uniforms, it actually becomes a Wes Anderson film.

Hugh Grant is great. (After screening interview: 'Some of them were my costumes'.) There's even a play on the famous Shakespeare stage instruction 'exit followed by a bear', voiced I think by him.

Absolutely loved the animation featuring the 'popping book' of London, supervised by Dale Newton, who also oversaw the 'Three Brothers' scene from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

"I've raised the neighbourhood panic level to wild hysteria."

King on being asked if it was all he wanted it to be: "I'm caught between lying and lying in a different way." He reveals that Grant would ad lib some of the lines such as in court - the entrails line.

Good newspaper lines in end credits e.g. daughter's newspaper expanding ('now accepting boys'). And the end musical number... (actually the first day of filming).

Cinnamon in marmalade?

Pablo Grillo at Framestore is the lead animator, Dario Marienelli the composer. Great production design too (Gary Williamson). Shot by Erik Wilson (Submarine and The Double).

Is this a reference to that Eichenberg Jane Eyre cover?