First review is in--and it's good!

Four out of five stars!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/11239741/Paddingto n-review-a-total-delight.html

The review makes reference to the whole PG-rating-tempest-in-a-teapot, and dismisses the whole business as poppycock: it's "as warm and welcome as a hot pair of socks on a winter morning" and Ben Whishaw's "hot-tea-and-honey voice is so ideal that it's impossible to imagine anyone else ever being considered."

Of course, the gripers are still going on about the "CGI monstrosity" in the comments. You know...the "NOTHING must change, EVER" crowd.

It does mention the one real complaint I had when I leafed through the junior novelization: a little less Mr. Curry interaction than I'd have liked. But they have to save something for the sequels, I suppose, and maybe in the future they can expand on Curry's character in a way Bond never did. (I always imagined him as a widower, who'd grown up in severe poverty--hence the fact that he's still penny-pinching even after being successful enough to live in Notting Hill.)

So glad that it's being well-received so far!