The idea for a film about rats that fall in love in sewers was proposed by animator Sam Fell during the production of Aardman Animation's Chicken Run (2000). At the time, Aardman encouraged everyone at the company to come up with ideas for features for the DreamWorks partnership. In 2001, Fell, development executive Mike Cooper, and producer Peter Lord then developed the concept into a story before pitching it to DreamWorks. The film was first announced in July 2002, and in what was then a surprise move, it was revealed as being Aardman's very first CGI feature project. Lord described the pitch as "The African Queen with the gender roles reversed". After the film was announced, Comic writing duo Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais were contracted to write the script, which had the working title Ratropolis. In 2003, David Bowers joined in to direct the film with Fell.
Flushed Away
(2006)4
| Country | |
| Spoken Language | english |
| Runtime | 1 hr 25 min |
| Budget | $149 000 000 |
| Premiere: World | $178 281 554 October 29, 2006 |
| USA | $64 665 672 |
| Other countries | $113 615 882 |
| Box Office – Budget | $29 281 554 |
| Premiere: USA | $64 665 672 October 29, 2006 |
| first day | $4 710 515 |
| theaters | 3707 |
| rollout | 424 days |
| Digital: World | August 30, 2011 |
| Production Companies | |
| Also Known As | Lo que el agua se llevó United States |
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The story of an uptown rat that gets flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment, ending in the sewers of London, where he has to learn a whole new and different way of life.Сast and Crew
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Critique: 12
The movie is both child-friendly and, in its frequent jokes and topical references, adult-friendly, too. What it lacks is the heart to make it real...
The short attention spans of directors David Bowers and Sam Fell are mostly forgivable because the movie is filled with so many entertaining charac...
Kids will probably be in stinky-sewage heaven with the new computer-animated critter comedy Flushed Away, but even they may realize they’re u...
It’s better than 90% of the animated fare of the last few years. It’s refreshing not to have to qualify the movie’s appeal by app...
Actually, a lot about the film is certified cool, from its whirly animation to the hordes of crunchy pop songs on the soundtrack.
Flushed Away, the new feature from Aardman Animations, revels in its British-ness – it’s full of bone-dry wit, football references, and...
…This puckish charmer about a posh Kensington mouse flushed down the loo into London sewer country is to action-adventure what Wallace and Gro...
The film mixes rousing kid-friendly adventure with surprisingly savvy grown-up wit and charm.
Digital animation has elbowed claymation out of the frame and a certain frenetic coarsening has settled over Aardman’s latest.
Somewhere in the transition between plasticene and pixels, Aardman’s uniquely gentle charm has disappeared. What remains is a frantic, d...
Settles for a more modest level than Aardman’s previous efforts. Strong on visual invention and wacky humor but light on story and chara...
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Another cartoon from childhood, where I only remember a good romantic line. The appearance of the characters didn’t work.
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I watched it as a kid when I wasn’t a particularly demanding kid, I rewatched it now and it turns out I still like almost everything. The love story is perceived with a creak of course, but the rest is just as funny and cute. I was surprised that it has such low ratings.
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