Some things in life are simply too wholesome to disparage. Mr. Rogers is one, “Wallace & Gromit” is another, and if one were to pick a third example, it would be all too easy to turn towards just one of Britain’s seemingly abundant animated bears. For our purposes, the bear in question is none other than Paddington Brown, whose status as a symbol of friendliness par excellence had been firmly cemented into the new millennium thanks to Paul King’s duology of live-action films.

Naturally, any filmmaker scaling such unparalleled heights as “Paddington 2” would see fit to close the chapter on this pop-up book and leave things on the highest of notes, and technically speaking, King has; now, it’s first-time director Dougal Wilson who’s been selected to close out this trilogy with “Paddington in Peru.” As you’ve probably surmised from the title, this newest film promises...