| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

A witty combination of jokes for both adults and kids.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 3/6 | Feb 3, 2007

A disappointing CG-animated film.

| Dec 30, 2006

Like a mouse on a spinning wheel, it's a film that moves at a breakneck pace but ultimately goes nowhere.

| Original Score: C+ | Dec 15, 2006

The action sequences mostly uninspired and the characterisations and voice-overs underwhelming.

| Nov 29, 2006

The best animated movie of the year and only a whisker shy of the brilliance of Wallace and Gromit.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 29, 2006

Somewhere in the transition between plasticene and pixels, Aardman's uniquely gentle charm has disappeared. What remains is a frantic, deadening affair that's easy to admire but hard to love.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 11, 2006

Settles for a more modest level than Aardman's previous efforts. Strong on visual invention and wacky humor but light on story and characterization, it's about on the level of a Blue Sky feature, in particular recalling Robots.

| Original Score: B | Nov 8, 2006

They try a little too hard. All this frantic action...

Full Review | Nov 6, 2006

Most of the fun is in the deft characterizations, the zippy banter, and the joyous sight gags

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Nov 3, 2006

...It's rat-a-tat pop culture references, but consistently hilarious.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 3, 2006

...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.

| Nov 3, 2006

Actually, a lot about the film is certified cool, from its whirly animation to the hordes of crunchy pop songs on the soundtrack.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 3, 2006

Flushed Away subsumes its British charm with an aggressive American pace and more obvious body-function humour, and the film shows evidence of an awkward fit between American and British sensibilities.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 3, 2006

Though Flushed Away duplicates the stop-motion, clay animation look of Aardman's earlier Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit, it was made using computer software and its liberated action sequences are truly dazzling.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 3, 2006

Flushed Away is more fun than a bushel of slugs in a sewer. And considering the slugs in this sewer, that's saying quite a bit.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Nov 3, 2006

As some other witty Brits once promised, a splendid time is guaranteed for all.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 3, 2006

How this thing got made in Hollywood is a mystery, but I laughed at most of it, especially the mean stereotypes about the French and the even meaner stereotype about England's soccer team.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 3, 2006

The chatter is as zingy for the adults in the theater as the action is zippy for the kiddies.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 3, 2006