Nicolas Cage and everyone's favorite talking bear have more in common than you might realize.
On the surface, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent and Paddington 2 could not be any more different. One is a bombastic, meta action-comedy complete with guns and drugs while the other is a sweet family film with a talking bear. The two seem incredibly dissonant in tone from each other, yet The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent goes out of its way to name-drop Paddington 2 and turn it into a running gag that helps members of the cast bond.
And it is only after Nic trusts in Javi and starts to follow his advice and empathetic tendencies that he is able to see his own faults and begin to reconcile with his family. He must step beyond the artifice of story and the stardom he desperately clings to in order to form real, meaningful connections with his daughter and wife. Like Paddington, Javi is able to unlock the better parts of the people around him.
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