Postman Pat: The Movie [DVD] [2017]

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Allan Hunter of the Daily Express gave it three stars, and said "Kids are going to love Postman Pat: The Movie even if adults might find it sacrilegious in its treatment of their beloved childhood favourite... It's a bit Wallace & Gromit, a bit Doctor Who and just as silly and overexcited as a four-year-old after an excess of fizzy drinks." [17] Co-producer Ambient Entertainment has partnered with Warner Brothers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Carbuncle takes advantage of Pat's newfound celebrity to replace him with a robot – part of a convoluted plan to take over the world. (It didn't seem a particularly viable plan to me, but presumably the tinies take this sort of thing on trust.)

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January witnessed the atrocious arrival of this generic Open Road Films production about a squirrel planning a heist to get nuts. Easily one of the worse reviewed films of the year so far, it is evident why an early release date was chosen. Even the fact that it was voiced by the likes of Liam Neeson, Will Arnett, Katherine Heigl and Brendan Fraser couldn’t rescue it from its simplistic premise. Sadly, the fact that it didn’t offer anything but cheap and formulaic laughs didn’t stop it from being a mild financial success. Beware, it has been granted a sequel out in 2016. Postman Pat: The Movie was released in the United Kingdom on DVD and Blu-ray on 29 September 2014, by Lionsgate Home Entertainment. [8] Reception [ edit ] Box office [ edit ]

For some absurd reason the studio created a marketing campaign for this film comparable to that of an actually meaningful theatrical release. This was probably due to Tom Hiddleston’s involvement, but is that enough to warrant the fifth installment of this by-the-numbers franchise? Apparently they thought so. As a home-entertainment product this may suffice and keep schoolgirls captivated, but how many more sequels until its young audience gets bored or Thinker Bell becomes obsolete. You guessed it, this is also a Disney Toon Studios work, the place where good generic ideas go to die and resurrect as bargain products. However, as bizarre as it might seem, some critics actually enjoyed it and were fairly positive towards it. Could this be because their expectations of a non-theatrical film are lower? We probably should be worried that such support might encourage the studio to open the next chapter in every multiplex that allows children in - all of them. a b c "Postman Pat The Movie (2014)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 30 September 2015 . Retrieved 19 August 2015. Hunter, Allan (23 May 2014). "Postman Pat review: Our favourite postie in an off-the-wall pursuit of fame and fortune". Daily Express . Retrieved 15 September 2014. Reynolds, Simon. "X-Men: Days of Future Past delivers biggest 2014 UK box office opening". Digital Spy . Retrieved 15 September 2014. The 15th Annual Golden Trailer Award Nominees". Archived from the original on 9 July 2014 . Retrieved 22 April 2015.

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Postman Pat: The Movie - You Know You're the One (2013)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango . Retrieved 9 October 2021. Director: Paul King; Screenwriter: Paul King; Starring: Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Nicole Kidman, Peter Capaldi; Running time: 95 mins; Certificate: PGEdwards, David (23 May 2014). "Postman Pat: The Movie is dull, dated, disappointing and fails to deliver". Daily Mirror . Retrieved 15 September 2014. On 11 October 2004, it was announced that Postman Pat could soon be a star of the big screen if Hollywood bosses get their way. A number of leading American film studios, including Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Brothers and Universal Pictures, were understood to be among those seeking to acquire the film rights to a string of British television favourites, including Postman Pat. Universal and Twentieth Century, the Hollywood studios, had approached the British company Entertainment Rights about a possible film version of Postman Pat. Mike Heap, the chief executive of Entertainment Rights, confirmed that talks were taking place with a number of different film makers but refused to give details. Earlier in 2004, Prisons Minister Paul Goggins, MP for Wythenshawe and Sale East, revealed that one of the characters, old lady Mrs Goggins, who is often heard to sigh, "Eee, it's a bad job", was named after a relative. [1]

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The murderous bionic cat shooting lasers out of its eyes proved a turning point: whimpers turned to wails and more than one family group shuffled towards the exit. The Los Angeles Times ' Gary Goldstein wrote "First-class Postman Pat delivers in fine style". [18] The Mareel review written by Caroline Malcolm wrote " Postman Pat: The Movie, was a surprise from start to finish...Mike Disa, who is known for his children's animations showed off his artistic style by yet again creating a movie that captivated children with CGI pleasures, but also enticed adults with intensely intelligent sociobites disguised as entertainment." [19] Accolades [ edit ] Here is where Pixar’s absence will be most appreciated. The 3D animation giant has won more Oscars for Best Animated Feature than anyone else. In many occasions they were the only real choice, others - like with “ Brave” - it appeared as if they were just winning by default despite the existence of more innovative and daring competitors. Their last offer “ Monsters University,” a prequel, failed to garner much love during awards season. This time around they are not even part of the festivities at all. Assuming that the Academy often recognizes the combination of craft and storytelling, then the ideal nominees would be as follows come January And despite Pat's efforts to tell his wife the truth about why he entered the competition, he fails and starts to become fearful that he might have pushed his family away. It isn't until shortly after Pat's departure for the final competition that Ben and Jess discover that there appears to be more than one Pat and Edwin Carbunkle's true intent is exposed. It turns out that Carbunkle is in fact an evil megalomaniac and is making these robots to try and take over the world. Ben then rushes to tell Sara and Julian the terrible truth about Mr Carbunkle's plan.

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Kermode, Mark (25 May 2014). "Postman Pat: The Movie review – shiny, slightly scary spin-off". The Observer. After running away from the PATBOT 3000 when it breaks the sorting office barrier, the SDS employies suddenly vanish. And later on, when Carbuncle unleashes his army of killer Pats, and robot Jess, it all feels head-scratchingly inappropriate. The television series is referenced when Mr. Brown says they are going to make a telly programme with puppets. With the scars of this year's childhood-decimating Postman Pat: The Movie still fresh, you'd be forgiven for approaching this reimagined live action Paddington with some measure of trepidation.

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It's at this point things start to get a little weird. Perhaps fearing that the modern tot can't be doing without a goodly dose of threat and peril, the fake Pat is pretty creepy: fixed toothy grin, glowing red eyes, hammering goosestep gait. In 2019, director Mike Disa uploaded a workprint of the movie that had a completely different story. [3] With the two animation titans quietly on the sidelines for the most part, a dream-like scenario for other films to shine has been created. During the first half of the year several animated titles have hit theaters already all with varying degrees of success. Clearly the conditions are prime for some great and unique animated features to emerge. However, despite the many promising options, there will also be plenty of disappointments.After some inadvertently atmospheric early marketing spawned the unfortunate 'Creepy Paddington' meme, and more recently the BBFC slapped the film with a PG rating for mild sex references and bad language, there was all the more reason to wonder whether producer David Heyman and writer-director Paul King would obey the famous edict to "please look after this bear".