Yep, this is Aardman's first sports movie, filtered through director Park's specific
sensibility of slapstick foolishness, with deadpan animal sidekicks, endless puns and actors like Tom Hiddleston, Maisie Williams, Timothy Spall and Miriam Margolyes having a lovely time lending their voices to his buck - toothed, beady - eyed Plasticine characters.
With its mix
of live - action and hyper - real animal animation, Peter Rabbit plays like a country cousin to Paul King's Paddington films, similarly balancing
slapstick, absurdism, and a touch
of gross - out humor, though without King's transcendently oddball
sensibility.