Flushed Away (2006)

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The action sequences mostly uninspired and the characterisations and voice-overs underwhelming.

November 29, 2006 Full Review

Time Out

Top Critic

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

November 6, 2006 Full Review

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

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

Roger Moore

Orlando Sentinel

Top Critic

...It's rat-a-tat pop culture references, but consistently hilarious.

November 3, 2006 Full Review

Peter Debruge

Miami Herald

Top Critic

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

Amy Biancolli

Houston Chronicle

Top Critic

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

Liam Lacey

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

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

Saxon Bullock

Film4

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

Amber Wilkinson

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

Anton Bitel

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 | Comment (1)

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

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

July 28, 2007

James Plath

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

Anton Bitel

Eye for Film

A witty combination of jokes for both adults and kids.

March 24, 2007 Full Review

Brian Tallerico

UGO

• 1. Spike: [to Whitey] Keep your legs straight when you hit the water!
  2. Whitey: I kept me legs straight, Spike. [Spike groans in pain]
  – Submitted by Jacob A (9 months ago)
• 1. Rita: [blows a raspberry and smacks her butt at The Toad's henchrats]
  – Submitted by Anthony A (18 months ago)
• 1. Spike: Danger is my middle name!
  2. Whitey: I thought it was Leslie.
  – Submitted by Tom R (19 months ago)
• 1. Sid: [to Roddy] Sid says 'Jump,' you say 'How high?' Hey-hey! Comprende?
  – Submitted by Anthony A (19 months ago)
• 1. Rita: [to the henchfrogs] Who invited you onboard? Hop it! Hop it!
  – Submitted by Anthony A (19 months ago)
• 1. Roddy: Don't come any closer!
  – Submitted by Anthony A (19 months ago)

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