Flushed Away
I had never heard of Aardman before Wallace & Gromit - The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and I was quite thoroughly impressed with that movie.
So when it was declared that the next Aardman movie would not be claymation but a 3d animation coming out of Dreamworks I was like, "Ouch! There goes another creative team down the digital toilet." (Pardon the pun :))
Flushed Away is absolutely brilliant.
Yet again I fail to see why critics have a problem with this movie. It is quite thoroughly entertaining.
The voice acting is simply awesome.
While Hugh Jackman and Kate Winslet are good the real fun comes in with Ian McKellen and Jean Reno. Bill Nighy and Andy Serkis provide the right evil-and-dumb villain combo.
The plot has a certain icky feel to it and I guess we should thank the creators they did not go for ultra realism. Our hero gets flushed down his own toilet (well, the toilet of the humans that keep him) and we get to see him travel down what is probably the cleanest route to the sewer.
Down in the sewer is a whole city populated by rodents, for the most part with a toad and some frogs.
The animation is good but it is the character design that really got me.
Roddy looks perfect and Rita is the most beautiful she-mouse you have seen. I have never been much a Mickey Mouse fan as I found the shape and looks somehow off but Rita works for me ;)
The British accent also works wonders for me. Like Chicken Run and Curse of the Were-Rabbit the British sense of humor is always there and it is very, very refreshing for those overburdened with Hollywood.
Hugh Jackman slips up once in a while but otherwise the voice acting is perfect.
If you like animation then do not miss out on this. Flushed Away actually manages to be funnier than Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Chicken Run.
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