Flushed Away [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray]

Director: David Bowers, Sam Fell, Henry Anderson, Peter Lord, David Sproxton, Cecil Kramer, Maryann Garger

Overview

A previously pampered society mouse must fight his way back to the comforts of Kensington after he is sent spiraling into an underground world filled with scavenger rats and villainous toads in a fun-filled family adventure produced by DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Features and featuring the voices of Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen, and Jean Reno. Roddy (Jackman) was living the high life when he first met Sid the sewer rat (Shane Richie), but that's all about to change when Sid decides to send the hapless mouse down the pipes and stealthily take his place in the lap of luxury. Though the bustling sewer city of Ratropolis isn't without its fair share of kind citizens, it is certainly no place for a pampered mouse with a taste for life's finer things. Upon making the acquaintance of scavenger rat Rita (Winslet), Roddy is certain that the pair can navigate their way back to the surface in Rita's trusty boat, the Jammy Dodger, but Rita's help doesn't come cheap, and the nefarious Toad (McKellen) is determined to rid Ratropolis of all things rodent. When Toad's hapless hench-rats Spike (Andy Serkis) and Whitey (Bill Nighy) fail to achieve acceptable results, the green meanie is forced to call in the cavalry in the form of legendary French mercenary Le Frog (Reno) to get the job done.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/04/2019
UPC:	0191329085622
Original Release:	2006
Rating:	PG
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, DTS 5.1-Channel Surround Sound, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:25:00
Sales rank:	22,866

Special Features

Slug songs; The music of Flushed Away; Meet the cast; Filmmaker commentary

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Hugh Jackman	Roddy
Kate Winslet	Rita
Ian McKellen	Toad
Jean Reno	Le Frog,Actor
Bill Nighy	Whitey
Andy Serkis	Spike
Shane Richie	Sid
Kathy Burke	Rita's Mum
David Suchet	Rita's Dad
Miriam Margolyes	Rita's Grandma
Rachel Rawlinson	Tabitha
Susan Duerden	Mother
Miles Richardson	Father
John Motson	Football Commentator
Douglas Weston	Newspaper Seller
Roger Blake	Policeman
Christopher Fairbank	Thimblenose Ted
Paul Shardlow	Voices
Conrad Vernon	Voices
Jonathan Kydd	Barnacle
Newell Alexander	Tex
Susan Fitzer	Edna
Joshua Silk	Voices
Meredith Wells	Rita's Little Sister
Ashleigh-Louis Elliot	Voices
Ashleigh Ludwig	Voices
Christopher Knights	Market Trader
Emma Tate	Passerby 2
Tom McGrath	Artist
Ralf Bauer	Voices
Bernd Klinzmann	Voices
Jessica Schwarz	Voices
Bert Franzke	Voices
Frank-Otto Schenk	Voices
Frank Glaubrecht	Voices
Andreas Fr?hlich	Voices
Olaf Reichmann	Voices
Corey Burton	Priest
Patrick Pinney	Passerby#3
Nikki Rapp	Singing Slugs/Maggots
Leslee Feldman	Actor
Conrad Vemon	Take Out
Sam Fell	Prophet
David Bowers	Tadpole
Simon Callow	Voices
Geoffrey Palmer	Voices
Harry Gregson-Williams	Composer

Technical Credits

Dick Clement

Ian La Frenais

Christopher Lloyd

Joe Keenan

Peter Lord

Sam Fell

David Bowers

Robert Nelson Jacobs

Simon Nye

Paul Fisher

Tim Sullivan

Will Davies

Chris Lloyd

Dick Clement	Screenwriter
Ian La Frenais	Screenwriter
Christopher Lloyd	Screenwriter
Joe Keenan	Screenwriter
Cecil Kramer	Producer
Peter Lord	Producer,Screenwriter
David Sproxton	Producer
Sam Fell	Screenwriter
Igor Lodeiro	Special Effects
Richard L. Anderson	Sound Effects
David Bowers	Screenwriter
Robert Nelson Jacobs	Screenwriter
Simon Nye	Screenwriter
Paul Fisher	Screenwriter
Tim Sullivan	Screenwriter
Maryann Garger	Producer
David P. Allen	Special Effects
Matt Head	Special Effects
Will Davies	Screenwriter
Chris Lloyd	Screenwriter
Priscilla John	Casting
Leslee Feldman	Casting
Yancy Lindquist	Special Effects
Andy Nelson	Sound Mixer
James Bolt	Sound Mixer

Editorial Reviews

When the family's away, the mouse will play. But pampered house pet Roddy's home-alone romp is shattered when a sewer rat settles in. Roddy (voiced by Hugh Jackman) tries to dispose of this ill-bred intruder by flushing him down the "Jacuzzi," but the rat knows a toilet when he sees one and flushes Roddy instead. Our hero finds himself in a subterranean metropolis that cleverly replicates London, a far cry from his palatial cage; and upon splashdown he finds himself embroiled in the affairs of scavenger rat Rita (Kate Winslet), who pilots a makeshift craft called the Jammy Dodger. She is pursued by the evil Toad (Ian McKellen), who is plotting to wipe out the underground city's rodent population. The first computer-animated feature from Britain's Aardman Animations (Wallace & Gromit) is an absolutely smashing adventure. While one misses the stop-motion plasticine delights of those films, Flushed Away more than compensates with superb voice work, including Andy "Gollum" Serkis and Bill Nighy as the Toad's bumbling henchrats and a hilarious Jean Reno as Toad's mercenary French cousin, Le Frog. Droll humor and whimsical characters -- such as singing slugs and accordion-playing frogs -- further reveal the Aardman hands behind the film. From a cockroach reading Kafka's The Metamorphosis to two slugs re-enacting the romantic spaghetti dinner from Lady and the Tramp, there are inventive throwaway gags and clever visual bits that will reward repeat viewing. Flushed Away pretty much sums up what unaccountably happened to this movie when it played in theaters. But as with The Iron Giant, another initially neglected gem, this film should be flush with success on DVD.