...while Flushed Away is studded with little comic nuggets, it is its story that disappoints...
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.
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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Reviews for Flushed Away
Action is all this film offers. It doesn't stand still long enough to involve the audience.
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.
This is one of those movies that sends kids - and adults - out of the theater listing dozens of things that made them laugh.
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.
Most of the fun is in the deft characterizations, the zippy banter, and the joyous sight gags
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.
...It's rat-a-tat pop culture references, but consistently hilarious.
...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.
Actually, a lot about the film is certified cool, from its whirly animation to the hordes of crunchy pop songs on the soundtrack.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As some other witty Brits once promised, a splendid time is guaranteed for all.
What makes the film's preoccupation with low-brow crudities so distressing are its infinitely more clever and inspired moments.
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.
Flushed Away moves quickly, and will just as quickly depart from memory, leaving the bemused, bubbly sensation of a good time in its wake.
Brisk and clever and funny and avoids some of the predictable pitfalls that hobble so many films of its ilk.
The chatter is as zingy for the adults in the theater as the action is zippy for the kiddies.
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