Move Aside Lady Bird, PADDINGTON 2 Sets Rotten Tomatoes Record as "Best-Reviewed Movie Ever"

[Dragonlordxxxxx]

PADDINGTON 2 Sets Rotten Tomatoes Record as Best-Reviewed Movie Ever

Blowing the lid off the critical marmalade jar, Paddington 2 has set a new benchmark as the best-reviewed film ever on Rotten Tomatoes. The little bear from darkest Peru has now notched the most consecutive Fresh reviews without a single Rotten.

Directed by Paul King, the Heyday Films/Studiocanal family sequel began offshore rollout in November, and was released in North America by Warner Bros last Friday. Its worldwide box office is $163M through Thursday.

Over at aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the movie has 167 Fresh reviews and no naysayers, overtaking Toy Story 2‘s 163 Fresh and 0 negative critiques. There’s a codicil that should be added here: in November 2017, Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird surpassed Toy Story 2 on the Fresh side, but was later knocked down a percentage point by one negative review, landing it at 99% Fresh. Paddington 2 has a 100% Fresh score.

The multi BAFTA-nominated sequel sees the return of Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Peter Capaldi and Jim Broadbent, and has Hugh Grant and Brendan Gleeson joining the CGI bear’s adventures — he’s voiced again by Ben Whishaw. King and Simon Farnaby wrote the movie that’s based on the Michael Bond creation.

The success is extra sweet given the bear of a situation the movie had to deal with domestically. The Weinstein Co had released the first movie and had an option on this one. In the wake of the mountain of sexual harassment and assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein, the North American distribution fate of Paddington 2 was ultimately resolved when Warner Bros beat out Sony, Lionsgate and Global Road to take over the movie in a bidding war that reached $30M.

In North America, P2 was somewhat soft at open. But in a crowded market it finished its first week at $16.8M with strong mid-weeks. Says WB’s Jeff Goldstein, “The key for us is the hold this coming weekend. Given the rare 100% Certified Fresh on RT as well as the A CinemaScore, we are encouraged for strong holds and a long play.”

‘Paddington 2’ Sets Rotten Tomatoes Record As Best-Reviewed Movie Ever

 

[Dragonlordxxxxx]

 

[chickenluver]

Sally Hawkins seems to be having a good year.

 

[Fluffernutter]

Seems to be a lot of records being broken over at rotten tomatoes.

PEDs?

 

[moreorless87]

Besides reviewers getting increasingly sheep like I tend to think that near total agreement on something's merits isn't generally a good sign, any art with real ambition to it is going to get some disagreement as to its merits.

 

[TrueBias]

Remember, these idiots certifiedthe last jedi 90% fresh.

they also shit on Hook. im no longer believing in this website. or shadowpriest

 

[TheRuthlessOne]

Best movie ever

 

[One MMA Fan]

Besides reviewers getting increasingly sheep like I tend to think that near total agreement on something's merits isn't generally a good sign, any art with real ambition to it is going to get some disagreement as to its merits.

Me thinks this ain't that type of movie/art.

 

[blaseblah]

Rotten Tomatoes doesn't indicate how good a movie is, it shows how many people gave it a positive review. There's a difference. If everyone says a film is slightly above average it will be 100% fresh. That doesn't mean it's a masterpiece.

In my mind this skews the high ratings towards family films that are accessible to everyone and movies that don't take risks.

 

[Tycho- Taylor's Version]

Remember, these idiots certifiedthe last jedi 90% fresh.

they also shit on Hook. im no longer believing in this website. or shadowpriest

*shots fired


Hespect to Paddington.

 

[moreorless87]

Me thinks this ain't that type of movie/art.

Pretty much, the RT rating system is really geared towards safer mainstream releases.

 

[dc007]

Well it can't be worse than the Shape of Water

 

[Kraysla]

Seriously? That's the best reviewed movie ever? I don't use RT, and probably never will.

 

[Jesus X]

rotten tomatoes credibility is completely gone now.

 

[BEER]

I think some people here don't know how Rotten Tomatoes works.

 

[Guestx]

Besides reviewers getting increasingly sheep like I tend to think that near total agreement on something's merits isn't generally a good sign, any art with real ambition to it is going to get some disagreement as to its merits.

So the best movies actually hover somewhere around, say, a 70%?

 

[Guestx]

Remember, these idiots certifiedthe last jedi 90% fresh.

they also shit on Hook. im no longer believing in this website. or shadowpriest

Mortal Kombat >

 

[moreorless87]

So the best movies actually hover somewhere around, say, a 70%?

Your asking for a big generalisation and I would say again that opinions are becoming more harmonised but I would expect most more ambitious cinema to have some decentring voices rather than the 97-100% range were talking about here.

70% is probably getting to the level were I'd look more at the films content/politics and see whether that might effect response although if something looks interesting and I'm hearing some positive response numbers won't matter at all to me.

 

[Loiosh]

I think some people here don't know how Rotten Tomatoes works.

That's guaranteed.

 

[Guestx]

Your asking for a big generalisation and I would say again that opinions are becoming more harmonised but I would expect most more ambitious cinema to have some decentring voices rather than the 97-100% range were talking about here.

70% is probably getting to the level were I'd look more at the films content/politics and see whether that might effect response although if something looks interesting and I'm hearing some positive response numbers won't matter at all to me.

Honestly, I'm surprised we don't have more 100% movies, considering that the score only indicates how many critics turned in a positive review.

I mean, who the fuck turned in a negative review for Heat? Or Jurassic Park? Or When Harry Met Sally?

Apparently someone did, because they don't have perfect scores, but I can't understand why someone would watch any of these movies and go, "Yeah, this is a poorly made film."