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Anj said:
That looks incredible, I'm hungry after seeing that!

Completely not related to anything but my friend took me and my kids out to see the new Paddington film last night and it was just BRILLIANT. I have not laughed that hard in probably years. Got to the point where I was gasping for breath from laughing! Olivia Coleman and Antonio Banderas stole the show, I can't decide who I enjoyed more. The first film was pretty good, the second one was highly entertaining especially Hugh Grant taking a very interesting detour from his usual typecasting and this one was choc full of stupid humour (exactly my kind of thing) and completely ridiculous whilst also heart warming. Kids got round the fact that the mum is a different actor by suggesting it is like Dr Who or James Bond 😂
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I haven't actually seen any of them but I have heard they're good/much better then one would expect, and I'm glad you and yours had a lovely time, I have read all the Paddington storybooks from the original run, even that one with all the Blue Peter stories in it! (so 13 books of stories IIRC) :)
 
They definitely are, I went into watching one with the preconceived idea it would be quite posh and a bit twee, but then it slaps you in the face with very silly physical humour and especially this latest one so funny it is pushing into Airplane levels of gags!
 
Anj said:
They definitely are, I went into watching one with the preconceived idea it would be quite posh and a bit twee, but then it slaps you in the face with very silly physical humour and especially this latest one so funny it is pushing into Airplane levels of gags!
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I'll cop to the fact that I'm more into things like, say, the 1993 adaptation of The Secret Garden than films filled with bodily function jokes and the like, but I do enjoy a bit of slapstick/physical silliness sometimes, I'm more of a Naked Gun fan that Airplane but your description has me somewhat intrigued, tbf one thing I liked about both Airplane and The Naked Gun is that they had a certain similarity with Muppet style humor, just somewhat more "adult" (also I love Hugh Grant had a crush on him ever since I was a kid!) :)


 
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Professor Irony said:
Not sure how many people watched it (wouldn’t need many fingers to count the number of people I know who have Apple TV), but did you see Severance by any chance?

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I have! It's superb, one of my favourite shows of all time. I love how much it rewards repeat viewings with all of the background details, and even the hiding-in-plain-sight details. Can't wait for season 2 to drop.
 
RadFemHedonist said:
I'll cop to the fact that I'm more into things like, say, the 1993 adaptation of The Secret Garden than films filled with bodily function jokes and the like, but I do enjoy a bit of slapstick/physical silliness sometimes, I'm more of a Naked Gun fan that Airplane but your description has me somewhat intrigued, tbf one thing I liked about both Airplane and The Naked Gun is that they had a certain similarity with Muppet style humor, just somewhat more "adult" (also I love Hugh Grant had a crush on him ever since I was a kid!) :)


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I can still remember being the only one in the cinema to laugh at that bit.
I assumed I was the only one to remember the Dirty Harry version.
 
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