Michael Holland — Theater Critic

Design carries real weight throughout — the staging inventive, the soundscape visceral. But the production as a whole is easier to admire than to feel: intellectually alive, only fitfully moving, and, for all its ambition, never quite captivating.

As soon as you walk in you feel something, there is a buzz of anticipation, the set warmly overwhelms while the projected graphics slink off the stage and along the walls to bring the Savoy Theatre to life. There are just a few children at this evening performance because this is Paddington the Musical and his fans stretch right back to 1958, and it showed in the audience age range.