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Flushed Away (2006)

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Reviews Counted:127

Fresh:91

Rotten:36

Average Rating:6.7/10

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

Rated: PG [See Full Rating] for crude humor and some language

Runtime: 86 mins

Genre: Childrens

Theatrical Release:Nov 3, 2006 Wide

Box Office: $64,459,316

Synopsis: From DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Features, the teams behind the Oscar®-winning hits "Shrek" and "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit," comes the computer-animated comedy "Flushed... From DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Features, the teams behind the Oscar®-winning hits "Shrek" and "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit," comes the computer-animated comedy "Flushed Away." Blending Aardman's trademark style and characterizations with DreamWorks' state-of-the-art computer animation, the film marks a unique new look for the artform. In this new comedy set on and beneath the streets of London, Roddy St. James (Hugh Jackman) is a pampered pet mouse who thinks he's got it made. But when a sewer rat named Sid (Shane Richie) – the definition of "low life" -- comes spewing out of the sink and decides it's his turn to enjoy the lap of luxury, Roddy schemes to rid himself of the pest by luring him into the loo for a dip in the "whirlpool." Roddy's plan backfires when he inadvertently winds up being the one flushed away into the bustling world down below. Underground, Roddy discovers a vast metropolis, where he meets Rita (Kate Winslet), a street-wise rat who is on a mission of her own. If Roddy is going to get home, he and Rita will need to escape the clutches of the villainous Toad (Sir Ian McKellen), who royally despises all rodents and has dispatched two hapless henchrats, Spike (Andy Serkis) and Whitey (Bill Nighy), as well as his cousin -- that dreaded mercenary, Le Frog (Jean Reno) – to see that Roddy and Rita are iced ... literally. "Flushed Away" stars the voices of Tony Award winner Hugh Jackman (Broadway's "The Boy From Oz," the "X-Men" film franchise) as Roddy; four-time Oscar® nominee Kate Winslet ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," "Iris," "Titanic," "Sense and Sensibility") as Rita; two-time Oscar® nominee Ian McKellen ("The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," "Gods and Monsters") as the Toad; Andy Serkis ("King Kong," "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King") and Bill Nighy ("Love Actually") as Spike and Whitey; Shane Richie ("Shoreditch") as Sid; and Jean Reno ("The Tiger and the Snow") as Le Frog. "Flushed Away" is being directed by David Bowers and Sam Fell, and produced by Peter Lord, David Sproxton and Cecil Kramer. -- © DreamWorks [More]

Starring: Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis

Starring: Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis, Bill Nighy, Jean Reno

Director: David Bowers, Sam Fell

Director: David Bowers, Sam Fell
Story: Peter Lord, Dick Clement, Sam Fell
Screenwriter: Ian La Frenais, Joe Keenan, William Davies
Composer: Harry Gregson-Williams
Producer: Cecile Kramer, David Sproxton
Studio: DreamWorks Distribution LLC

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...while Flushed Away is studded with little comic nuggets, it is its story that disappoints...

Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | comment Comment
11/04/06
Laura Clifford
Laura Clifford
Reeling Reviews

Action is all this film offers. It doesn't stand still long enough to involve the audience.

Full Review Source: San Diego Metropolitan | comment Comment
11/04/06
Jean Lowerison
Jean Lowerison
San Diego Metropolitan

Flushed Away has a pleasant moral about friendship, community and working together, and it's amusing as all get-out to children. Too bad the movie won't appeal as much to accompanying adults.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
11/04/06
Liz Braun
Liz Braun
Jam! Movies

This is one of those movies that sends kids - and adults - out of the theater listing dozens of things that made them laugh.

Full Review Source: Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) | comment Comment
11/03/06
Jeffrey Westhoff
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

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.

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
11/03/06
Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

Most of the fun is in the deft characterizations, the zippy banter, and the joyous sight gags

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
11/03/06
Tasha Robinson
Tasha Robinson
AV Club

Though Flushed Away certainly aims to please viewers of all ages, it's the anglophiles of all ages who are going to get the most out of the film.

Full Review Source: Premiere Magazine | comment Comment
11/03/06
Laine Ewen
Laine Ewen
Premiere Magazine

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

Full Review Source: Miami Herald | comment Comment
11/03/06
Peter Debruge
Peter Debruge
Miami Herald

...This puckish charmer about a posh Kensington mouse flushed down the loo into London sewer country is to action-adventure what Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit was to Hammer Horror.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
11/03/06
Ella Taylor
Ella Taylor
L.A. Weekly

Actually, a lot about the film is certified cool, from its whirly animation to the hordes of crunchy pop songs on the soundtrack.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
11/03/06
Amy Biancolli
Amy Biancolli
Houston Chronicle

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.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
11/03/06
Liam Lacey
Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail
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Flushed Away is more of the same, but with just enough sassy flourishes - a villainous French frog, voiced by Jean Reno, or a Greek chorus of singing and dancing slugs - to keep the conceit above water.

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
11/03/06
Duane Dudek
Duane Dudek
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
11/03/06
Jack Mathews
Jack Mathews
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.

Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
11/03/06
Tom Long
Tom Long
Detroit News

As some other witty Brits once promised, a splendid time is guaranteed for all.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
11/03/06
Terry Lawson
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
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What makes the film's preoccupation with low-brow crudities so distressing are its infinitely more clever and inspired moments.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
11/03/06
Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

How this thing got made in Hollywood is a mystery, but I laughed at most of it, especially the mean stereotypes about the French and the even meaner stereotype about England's soccer team.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
11/03/06
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
New York Post
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Flushed Away moves quickly, and will just as quickly depart from memory, leaving the bemused, bubbly sensation of a good time in its wake.

Full Review Source: Denver Rocky Mountain News | comment Comment
11/03/06
Robert Denerstein
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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Brisk and clever and funny and avoids some of the predictable pitfalls that hobble so many films of its ilk.

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
11/03/06
Shawn Levy
Shawn Levy
Oregonian

The chatter is as zingy for the adults in the theater as the action is zippy for the kiddies.

Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
11/03/06
Lisa Kennedy
Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post
 
 
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