Paddington: parents' guide

Mostly slapstick: a flooded bathroom, a gas-oven blast, a pigeon attack. The villain slaps a coworker, hangs a man upside down to make him talk and then drops him, still tied, into the river, and threatens Paddington with darts, a scalpel and a furnace.

No real profanity. Insults like dung breath and 'shut your pie hole,' plus good lord, for God's sake and an exclamatory 'God!' A background poster reads 'Damned by Despair.'

Innuendo only. Mr. Brown dresses as a cleaning lady and a guard flirts with him, a teen talks about her boyfriend, adults use words like hot and sexy, and a married couple share a passionate kiss.

Mrs. Bird plays a drinking game with a museum guard, matching him shot for shot until both are drunk, to distract him. An elderly man has a glass of wine, and Paddington is knocked out by a tranquilizer dart.

An earthquake destroys Paddington's home and his uncle dies, leaving him clutching the uncle's hat. The taxidermist stalks him across London, drugs him and prepares to stuff him, and a hunter points a rifle at the bears in the opening.