There’s a bad review of Paddington 2? Yes” “The new Paddington 2 review slammed the warm-hearted adventure film for having deviated from the spirit of Michael Bond’s children’s books, being ‘contrived and ridiculous,’ with Paddington being ‘over-confident, snide and sullen,’ claimed ‘considerations of race and identity, key to the Paddington character, are not addressed,’ and added that voice actor Ben Whishaw sounded ‘like a member of some indie-pop band coming down from an agonizing ketamine high.'” – The Hollywood Reporter