After a shameful touchdown in Ratropolis, an indulged rodent that gets flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment solicits the service of a sewer forager in discovering his way to his high-class London flat. His journey turns out to be a lesson for him as he sees a totally new perspective of life.
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.
UGO
March 24, 2007
A witty combination of jokes for both adults and kids.
Film4
September 10, 2008
It's an interesting approach to bridging two very different disciplines -- it's just a pity they didn't find a better script to try it out on.
They try a little too hard. All this frantic action...
Eye for Film
July 06, 2007
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.
...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.
Despite the attempts to make this slick and bang up-to-date - plasma screens and pop culture references abound - it still feels curiously caught in aspic.
