Flushed Away
Once again, the incomparable Aardman Animations have teamed up with Dreamworks, this time for Flushed Away.
Roddy (Hugh Jackman) is a decidedly upper-crust “society rat” who makes his home in a posh Kensington flat, complete with two hamster butlers named Gilbert and Sullivan. When a common sewer rat named Syd (Shane Richie) comes spewing out of the sink and decides he’s hit the jackpot, Roddy schemes to rid himself of the pest by luring him into the “whirlpool.” Syd may be an ignorant slob, but he’s no fool, so it is Roddy who winds up being flushed away into the bustling sewer world of Ratropolis. There Roddy meets Rita (Kate Winslet), an enterprising scavenger who works the sewers in her faithful boat, the Jammy Dodger. Roddy immediately wants out, or rather, up; Rita wants to be paid for her trouble; and, speaking of trouble, the villainous Toad (Ian McKellen) —who royally despises all rodents—wants them iced…literally. The Toad dispatches his two hapless hench-rats, Spike and Whitey, to get the job done. When they fail, the Toad has no choice but to send to France for his cousin—that dreaded mercenary, Le Frog (Jean Reno).
Unlike the two company’s previous collaberations - Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Wererabbit and Chicken Run - Flushed Away is a CG rather than a claymation movie. But the same look is there, along with the same broad British humour that made the previous films such fun to watch.
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The Trailer
Wednesday 31 May 2006 | Paul | Animation, Comedy
