Postman Pat: The Movie - Tales of the Postman

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Postman Pat: The Movie - Tales of the Postman is a 2022 British-French-Jordanian computer-animated adventure comedy children's film based on the children's stop-motion TV series Postman Pat. It is a sequel to the 2014 movie Postman Pat: The Movie and its voice actors reprised their roles. It was animated by DreamWorks Animation, Gaumont Animation, and Rubicon Group Holding. This film was released in the UK, Ireland, and France on June 25, 2022, while it had a US and Canadian release on October 12, 2022. Despite the characters from the first movie returning, this is a standalone movie. This movie, alongside the fourth season of Postman Pat: Special Delivery Service, was first announced on September 16, 2021, Postman Pat's 40th anniversary.

Plot

Postman Pat (Stephen Mangan) and Jess the Cat (Mike Disa) have to deliver a large package to an unknown person far away in France, which will take days to go to. While they are gone, former music manager Wilf (David Tennant) takes over his former nemesis's job temporarily, but when he learns that Pat got the special job, Wilf gets extremely jealous and plans to demolish Postman Pat and Jess, he stops at nothing to deliver the package instead. Will Postman Pat and Jess deliver the package to the unknown person in France on time and stop Wilf from letting his terrible scheme succeed?

Bad Qualities

Despite being much more faithful to the original show when compared to the previous movie, the movie doesn't exactly have that much charm like the original show, with most of the dialogue and humour feeling out of place for a Postman Pat movie.
This film can be too intense and dark for a kids' film.
The two major characters have been flanderized: Postman Pat (while still likeable) turned into a bumbling, accident-prone, and unlucky postman, while Wilf turned from a redeemed and loyal man to a jealous and self-centered jerk whose anger issues worsened and wanted to destroy Postman Pat and Jess to get the special job.
Countinuing from the previous pointer, Wilf's schemes to demolish Pat and Jess are way too intense for a children's film! No wonder why this film was rated "PG" (or higher) in most countries instead of an all-ages rating.
There's too much filler in this film to fit the runtime, such as the scenes where Postman Pat and Jess had to make a pit stop and the subplot where Josh tried to get used to Carbunkle becoming his new manager.
The Japanese promotional trailers and TV spots spoiled who the mysterious person is: Wilf's evil twin brother Pierre, thus making the plot twist pointless!
Speaking of Pierre, while he is a likable antagonist and new character, he is an insulting stereotype to French people!
Carbunkle's redemption was not explained very well, and he didn't tell why he became Josh's new manager.
Misleading title and poster/marketing: Firstly, the subtitle of this film is "Tales of the Postman", even though this film is about a special job for Postman Pat, not the many tales and stories of him. Second of all, Mr. Brown, Josh, the PATBOT 3000s, and Carbunkle are treated as major characters in the posters and promotional material, but they barely appear in the film.
Speaking of the PATBOT 3000s, the scene where Pierre activates the PATBOT 3000s to vocally torture and anger Wilf to the point of him destroying his laboratory is a ripoff of the "Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga" scene where Cackletta activates the Peach-Bots to vocally torture and anger the Beanstar to the point of destroying the laboratory.
Speaking of the scene above, there are a decent amount of unnecessary pop culture references in this film, with some of them just being references to the names of the media that they are referencing:
- There's a completely uneccessary scene where Postman Pat believes the evil person is a Welsh firefighter, referencing Fireman Sam.
- A scene where Sarah mentions that she went to Tesco to buy some food with Pat.
- Wilf claiming that Pat is worse than "the builder who had talking machines", referencing Bob the Builder.
- Pat acting like Wallace from Wallace & Gromit when he eats his early morning cheese and crackers.
- Ted Glen wishing that he could own talking race cars, as a reference to Roary the Racing Car.

Good Qualities

The animation, character designs, and voice acting have improved from the previous movie, as the film (and the fourth season of Special Delivery Service) was animated in CGI that faithfully represents the stop-motion feel similar to the original show.
Despite not having the same charm, the movie is at least faithful to the original show, despite the dark tone.
The characters Carbunkle (despite the filler), Mr. Brown, Josh (despite the filler), and Wilf (despie his flanderization) have improved personalities compared to the first film. Also, Wilf and Postman Pat are still entertaining characters despite their flanderization.
The humor is done well, such as Wilf's angry breakdowns when one of his schemes fails and Ben's surprisingly clever mail puns.
Pierre is a likable antagonist, and his voice actor did a good job imitating a French accent.
The soundtrack is beautiful, just like in the first film.
The climax and ending scenes were well done.
The editing of the Japanese version was well done.
Thankfully, Wilf's flanderization is only temporary, as he redeems himself and helps Postman Pat and Jess in the climax scene.
The pop culture references, while unnecessary, are not as blatant as in the first movie.

Reception

This film has received a slightly better reception than the first movie, but the movie did end up receiving mixed reviews from critics, audiences, and fans of Postman Pat. The film has received a score of 6/10 on IMDB and a 50% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes (but had a 60% audience score). On Metacritic, it received a score of "60". Despite the mixed-to-negative reception from critics and some audiences, this film has received a cult following from Postman Pat and animation fans.

Trivia

This film was the first Postman Pat movie to be released in Japan. For its Japanese release, the animators had to reanimate the movie (and the fourth season of Special Delivery Service) to add an extra finger to the characters to avoid accusations of Yakuza. To promote the movie's release, they dubbed the fourth season of Postman Pat: Special Delivery Service and aired it on their feed of Disney Junior.
This is the first Postman Pat film to have a higher age rating, and the first Postman Pat film to have a wide North American theatrical release and an MPAA rating.

Cast

Japanese

Rikiya Koyama as Ben

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