Flushed Away (2006)

It was only a matter of time. With the studios setting up animation divisions left, right and centre and big-budget ’toons invading our multiplexes every other week, the days when Nick Park and pals could lavish three years on a painstakingly produced stop-motion masterpiece were clearly numbered. DreamWorks may have indulged Aardman’s quirky eccentricities on Chicken Run and Wallace And Gromit – no doubt biting their collective tongues over every missed deadline or delayed release date – but for their third collaboration something new was needed: a revolutionary gadget capable of reducing the outfit’s workload at a stroke. A little doo-hickey called a ‘computer’...

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