Flushed Away
Dreamworks Animation one day decided that they love the look of claymation. The same type of medium recently witnessed in Wallace & Gromit - The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. However, claymation is a bitch to do and requires tons of time to get the most active of shots.
Therefore, Dreamworks Animation came up with a solution-- make a computer-generated animation that looked similar to claymation. Everybody immediately gave one another high five and got to work on the latest CG animation coming our way for 2006-- Flushed Away.
Flushed Away Sneak Peak
Dreamworks Animation recently released the first sneak peak, not trailer, for their upcoming animation Flushed Away. The film looks pretty good and definitely features more than its fair share of impressive shots.
From DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Features, the teams behind the worldwide hit Wallace & Gromit - The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, comes the computer-animated comedy Flushed Away. Blending Aardman's trademark style and characterizations with DreamWorks' state-of-the-art computer animation, Flushed Away is a madcap comedy set on and beneath the streets of London.
Roddy is a decidedly upper-crust "society rat" who makes his home in a posh Kensington flat, complete with two hamster butlers named Gilbert and Sullivan. When a common sewer rat named Syd comes spewing out of the sink and decides he's hit the jackpot, Roddy schemes to rid himself of the pest by luring him into the "whirlpool." Syd may be an ignorant slob, but he's no fool, so it is Roddy who winds up being flushed away into the bustling sewer world of Ratropolis. There Roddy meets Rita, an enterprising scavenger who works the sewers in her faithful boat, the Jammy Dodger. Roddy immediately wants out, or rather, up; Rita wants to be paid for her trouble; and, speaking of trouble, the villainous Toad-who royally despises all rodents-wants them iced.literally. The Toad dispatches his two hapless hench-rats, Spike and Whitey, to get the job done. When they fail, the Toad has no choice but to send to France for his cousin-that dreaded mercenary, Le Frog.
Flushed Away stars the voices of Tony Award winner Hugh Jackman (Broadway's The Boy From Oz , the X-Men film franchise) as Roddy; four-time Oscar® nominee Kate Winslet (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,Iris,Titanic,Sense and Sensibility) as Rita; two-time Oscar® nominee Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings,Gods and Monsters) as the Toad; Andy Serkis (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King) and Bill Nighy (Love Actually) as Spike and Whitey; Shane Richie (Shoreditch) as Syd; Geoffrey Palmer (2003's Peter Pan) and Simon Callow (The Phantom of the Opera) as Gilbert and Sullivan; and Jean Reno (The Tiger and the Snow) as Le Frog.
You can check out the sneak peak for Flushed Away by heading over to the official site.
Flushed Away comes to theatres on November 3rd, 2006.
For more movie info, go to the Flushed Away Movie Page.
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