Despite "Flushed Away" being a film from Aardman (the makers of "Wallace and Grommit"), this is NOT a stop-motion picture. According to IMDB, the water was difficult to animate using stop-motion and CGI seemed like a better bet. However, when seen now in 2019, the CGI now looks very dated....whereas stop-motion would have held up better.
When this film debuted, it did not perform well in theaters and lost money for Aardman. This might indicate that others were not exactly enthralled by the CGI...or the story itself of a rat crawling through sewers wasn't exactly something folks wanted to see. Or, more likely, the film cost an astronomical 149,000,000 to make and even if the film did okay at the box office, it was going to lose money. I assume most of this huge budget was to pay for the big-name voice actors.
When the story begins, a family leaves for a trip...and soon the family pet, a rat named Roddy (Hugh Jackman), runs amok in the house. Ultimately, he ends up going on a big adventure involving some ruby and a host of baddies...in the sewers! How he got there and what occurs....you'll have to see it for yourself.
So is it any good? It's fair and far from one of Aardman's best. I think a lot of it is because the main character lacks the endearing qualities of many of the studio's leading characters. The rat simply isn't particularly cute nor do you care much about him or his plight.
When this film debuted, it did not perform well in theaters and lost money for Aardman. This might indicate that others were not exactly enthralled by the CGI...or the story itself of a rat crawling through sewers wasn't exactly something folks wanted to see. Or, more likely, the film cost an astronomical 149,000,000 to make and even if the film did okay at the box office, it was going to lose money. I assume most of this huge budget was to pay for the big-name voice actors.
When the story begins, a family leaves for a trip...and soon the family pet, a rat named Roddy (Hugh Jackman), runs amok in the house. Ultimately, he ends up going on a big adventure involving some ruby and a host of baddies...in the sewers! How he got there and what occurs....you'll have to see it for yourself.
So is it any good? It's fair and far from one of Aardman's best. I think a lot of it is because the main character lacks the endearing qualities of many of the studio's leading characters. The rat simply isn't particularly cute nor do you care much about him or his plight.