Relaxed Screening: Flushed Away

Flushed Away was the third and final animated feature Aardman–the studio behind Wallace and Gromit–produced with DreamWorks, and the first Aardman project made entirely in CGI animation as opposed to stop-motion. Because water is difficult to render in stop-motion, and for this film they'd need a lot of it, they decided to go full CGI.A pampered pet "society mouse" Roddy St. James (Hugh Jackman) thinks he's got it made... until he's literally flushed away to a bustling underground world of ninja frogs, hench-rats and singing slugs. In an attempt to get out, he meets an enterprising scavenger Rita (Kate Winslet) and a villainous Toad (Ian McKellen).

This outrageously inventive adventure is a flood of fun.Reviews"Aardman knows funny. Flushed Away’s script is slick with witty banter and knowing asides, but it’s the visual gags rather than the dialogue that really elevate it." –Empire

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