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Flushed Away : 4 of 5
11.09.2006 10:43 PM \| Link	It's great to see Aardman Animation bringing their claymation expertise to the CG world, and it's really an amazing combination. Aardman has developed software that gives their work the feel of real claymation (most obvious in the mouth movements), and of course the character designs all have that signature Wallace & Gromit look. The story is about Roddy, a pet rat who gets flushed into the sewer, where he finds a complete miniature London (creatively built of all kinds of scrap parts) full of sewer rats and their frog enemies. Along the way he meets Rita, who has a crazy boat that she uses to navigate the sewer waters kind of like a pirate. All of the voice acting is well done and the characters are really likeable (even the bad guys), but the slugs steal the show! Yes, there are little slugs everywhere (after all, this is a sewer) who show up from time to time and sing appropriate tunes in hilarious harmony. The pacing of the movie is really well-done, focusing nicely on character development (for Roddy and Rita), and finally revealing the evil frog plot at just the right time. I definitely couldn't count the number of laugh-out-loud moments, which were well-divided between visual jokes and clever dialogue. All in all, it was incredibly fun to see another great Aardman movie produced in a new medium, and I hope it's successful enough to keep the ball rolling. Labels: movies


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