A disappointing CG-animated film.
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12/30/06
Flushed Away (2006)
73 %
Reviews Counted: 124 Fresh: 91 Rotten:33 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: U
Runtime: 86 mins
Theatrical Release: 01-12-2006
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 Away." Blending Aardman's trademark style and characterizations with DreamWorks'... [More]
Genre: Childrens
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis, Bill Nighy
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
Story: Peter Lord, Dick Clement, Sam Fell
Screenwriter: Ian La Frenais, Joe Keenan, William Davies
Composer: Harry Gregson-Williams
Producer: Cecile Kramer, David Sproxton
Reviews
Top Critic
The action sequences mostly uninspired and the characterisations and voice-overs underwhelming.
11/29/06
Top Critic
The best animated movie of the year and only a whisker shy of the brilliance of Wallace and Gromit.
11/29/06
Top Critic
Somewhere in the transition between plasticene and pixels, Aardman's uniquely gentle charm has disappeared. What remains is a frantic, deadening affair that's easy to admire but hard to love.
11/11/06
Top Critic
It may have a fairly standard adventure plot, but it's so fiercely witty that you just can't stop laughing.
10/28/06
So confusing... so jarring... so utterly irritating, how I long for "Wallace and Gromit" at this moment...
09/11/07
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.
07/06/07
The movie's gaggle of writers (seven different men have either screenplay or story credits) come up with enough clever visual references to ease the burden of familiarity.
12/30/06
The dialogue is witty and the action exciting, but without the hands-on, homemade appeal of stop-motion, the Aardman magic is missing.
12/15/06
Like a mouse on a spinning wheel, it's a film that moves at a breakneck pace but ultimately goes nowhere.
12/15/06
Any movie designed for kids that wantonly throws around Kafka gags gets my vote.
12/15/06
Embora animados digitalmente, os personagens deste novo longa trazem, em seus designs e personalidades, as características que fizeram dos filmes da Aardman um repositório constante de histórias engraçadas e envolventes.
12/14/06
An animated film inferior to Aardman's tradition, but just about right for DreamWorks' recent mediocrity streak
12/09/06
Deliciously witty, funny and clever, endlessly inventive and filled with Aardman's trademark eye for detail, Flushed Away has more for grown ups than for kids, although no age group could complain of being under nourished with entertainment in this film.
12/08/06
Although Flushed Away is on a much bigger scale than its homely predecessors, it's still comfortably offbeat and funny.
12/01/06
Achieves a controlled sense of arcane looseness on its way to becoming one of the year's better animated efforts.
11/20/06
If you love "Wallace and Gromit," you'll want to get "Flushed Away" with these new characters from Aardman.
11/14/06
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