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Flushed Away

Flushed Away (2006)

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Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 129
Fresh: 93 | Rotten: 36

Clever and appealing for both children and adults, Flushed Away marks a successful entry into digital animated features for Aardman Animations.

76

Average Rating: 6.7/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 8

Clever and appealing for both children and adults, Flushed Away marks a successful entry into digital animated features for Aardman Animations.

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Average Rating: 3.3/5
User Ratings: 225,109

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Movie Info

A previously pampered society mouse must fight his way back to the comforts of Kensington after he is sent spiraling into an underground world filled with scavenger rats and villainous toads in a fun-filled family adventure produced by DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Features and featuring the voices of Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen, and Jean Reno. Roddy (Jackman) was living the high life when he first met Sid the sewer rat (Shane Richie), but that's all about to change when Sid

Feb 20, 2007

$64.5M

Paramount

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All Critics (133) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (98) | Rotten (36) | DVD (13)

They try a little too hard. All this frantic action...

November 6, 2006 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comment
Ebert & Roeper
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Here's hoping that Flushed Away won't be the last gurgle from Aardman in feature-film form. Aardman shows us that animated humor, even in the toilet, can still be good clean fun.

November 3, 2006 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | Comment
Orlando Sentinel
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Actually, a lot about the film is certified cool, from its whirly animation to the hordes of crunchy pop songs on the soundtrack.

November 3, 2006 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment
Houston Chronicle
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Flushed Away subsumes its British charm with an aggressive American pace and more obvious body-function humour, and the film shows evidence of an awkward fit between American and British sensibilities.

November 3, 2006 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
Globe and Mail
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Though Flushed Away duplicates the stop-motion, clay animation look of Aardman's earlier Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit, it was made using computer software and its liberated action sequences are truly dazzling.

November 3, 2006 Full Review Source: New York Daily News | Comment
New York Daily News
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Flushed Away is more fun than a bushel of slugs in a sewer. And considering the slugs in this sewer, that's saying quite a bit.

November 3, 2006 Comment
Detroit News
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It's an interesting approach to bridging two very different disciplines -- it's just a pity they didn't find a better script to try it out on.

September 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

Despite the attempts to make this slick and bang up-to-date - plasma screens and pop culture references abound - it still feels curiously caught in aspic.

June 13, 2008 Full Review Source: Eye for Film | Comment
Eye for Film

Many of the extras directed at adults on this disc could easily have been flushed away themselves.

September 17, 2007 Full Review Source: Eye for Film | Comment
Eye for Film

So confusing... so jarring... so utterly irritating, how I long for "Wallace and Gromit" at this moment...

September 11, 2007 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comment (1)
Cinema Crazed

A deliciously eccentric tale with an appealing script chock full of allusions.

July 28, 2007 Comment
Reel.com

Exciting, adventurous, and flush with visual and verbal gags, Aardman's latest stands out from the many other children's animations released this year because it seems a labour of love rather than a soulless commodity.

July 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Eye for Film | Comment
Eye for Film

A witty combination of jokes for both adults and kids.

March 24, 2007 Full Review Source: UGO | Comment

A disappointing CG-animated film.

December 30, 2006 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment (1)
Guardian [UK]
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Audience Reviews for Flushed Away

It wasn't good but it certainly wasn't terrible i just hate that it was made by aardman but its not done with stop motion instead its cg made to look like stop motion

January 1, 2011
michael e.
Michael Edwards

Super Reviewer

It was enjoyable but lacked something.

May 26, 2010
3niR
Dead Angel

Super Reviewer

    1. Rita: [blows a raspberry and smacks her butt at The Toad's henchrats]
    – Submitted by Anthony A (6 months ago)
    1. Spike: Danger is my middle name!
    2. Whitey: I thought it was Leslie.
    – Submitted by Tom R (7 months ago)
    1. Sid: [to Roddy] Sid says 'Jump,' you say 'How high?' Hey-hey! Comprende?
    – Submitted by Anthony A (7 months ago)
    1. Rita: [to the henchfrogs] Who invited you onboard? Hop it! Hop it!
    – Submitted by Anthony A (7 months ago)
    1. Roddy: Don't come any closer!
    – Submitted by Anthony A (7 months ago)

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