Genre: Animation/Comedy
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis, Bill Nighy, Shane Richie, Jean Reno
Director: Sam Fell, David Bowers
Screenwriter: Dick Clement, Ian LaFrenais
Studio: DreamWorks Animation
Runtime: Approx. 85 minutes
Release Date: November 3, 2006
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Set on and beneath the streets of London, Roddy St. James (Hugh Jackman) is a pampered pet mouse who thinks he’s got it made. But when a sewer rat named Sid (Shane Richie) – the definition of “low life” – comes spewing out of the sink and decides it’s his turn to enjoy the lap of luxury, Roddy schemes to rid himself of the pest by luring him into the loo for a dip in the “whirlpool.” Roddy’s plan backfires when he inadvertently winds up being the one flushed away into the bustling world down below.
Underground, Roddy discovers a vast metropolis, where he meets Rita (Kate Winslet), a street-wise rat who is on a mission of her own. If Roddy is going to get home, he and Rita will need to escape the clutches of the villainous Toad (Ian McKellen), who royally despises all rodents and has dispatched two hapless henchrats, Spike (Andy Serkis) and Whitey (Bill Nighy), as well as his cousin – that dreaded mercenary, Le Frog (Jean Reno) – to see that Roddy and Rita are iced… literally.
Produced by Dreamworks Animation and Aardman Features, Flushed Away is the third collaboration between the two studios. The two previous movies, Chicken Run and the Academy Award®-winning Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, were both filmed using clay figures in stop-motion animation, a signature of the UK studio Aardman Features. Flushed Away marks the studio's transition to CG animation, but both studios worked hard to retain some of the charm and puppet-like qualities of the traditional Aardman film.
