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Flushed Away
by Kai Van Dusen, Staff Writer
Aardman Animations and DreamWorks Animation have combined forces to
make the movie Flushed Away.
The film, released November 3, is the story of Roddy
St. James, a rat that lives in the lap of luxury. One day, while his
owners are away and Roddy is having a great time alone, a drainage
problem brings Sid, a dirty, annoying sewer rat, into the house. As
the day presses on, Roddy is increasingly bothered by this nuisance
so he decides to trick Sid and flush him down the toilet but in the
process gets himself flushed down the drain and into the sewers of
London. In the sewers he meets Rita, a rat who works as a salvager,
and asks her to bring him back to his home. In return he agrees to
pay her handsomely in order to help her family. In the meantime
Roddy gets entangled with The Toad who employs the help of his
French friend Le Frog to kill Roddy and Rita and retrieve a cable
that they stole from him so he can complete his evil plot to kill
all of the rats in the sewer.
The movie is less childish than you might expect, like
many animated films coming out there is childish humor mixed with
comedy that only an older audience will understand. The animation is
also phenomenal. DreamWorks has combined their flawless computer
animation with Aardman's award winning clay-mation style.
The movie is deserving of the good ratings and it is a
good movie to take your little brother or sister to. Take them, or
just go see yourself if you appreciate the animation and its style
of humor that appeals to children as well as adults.
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