FLUSHED AWAY (DVD Review) - 25/3/07

I'm very happy to have this on DVD at last! I'm sure there will be another release further on down the line but I'm happy just having the film to watch. This film was the straw that broke the camel's back and led to the disintegration of the partnership between Dreamworks and Aardman after the film lost money and supposedly flopped. I say HOORAY for Aardman and carry on making quality animation if it comes out as inventive and good-humoured as this! The thumping ace soundtrack carry's a whole boatload of fun down the sewers of this story from one dazzling scene to the next. Suffice to say upper-class rat Roddy ends up in the sewers below London and needs to get back home and enlists the help of a rat called Rita and fighting off the schemes of various nefarious villains they pluckily save the day.

SPECIAL FEATURES: Filmmaker Commentary, extra Slug Songs - "I Don't Feel Like Dancing" and "Pump It" with Featurettes "The Music Of Flushed Away" and "Meet The Cast". Trailer for "Wallace & Gromit Curse Of The Were-Rabbit" and Dreamworks Animation Jukebox. Dreamworks Kids: Flushed Away Tunes with the Flushed Away Jukebox, Build A Slug, How To Draw Roddy, A Maze Of Pipes Game and further activities on the DVD-ROM feature. With further Trailers for the new Shrek - "Shrek The Third" and new film "Bee Movie".

Languages: English & French 5.1. Dolby plus English & Spanish 2.0 Dolby. Captions: English. CC. Subtitles: English, French & Spanish. Region 1 (USA) NTSC Colour. Widescreen. Runtime: 1 Hr. 24 Mins. Rating: PG. Special Features Not Rated. Aardman/Dreamworks 2006. ISBN # 097361176826.

Me - I love slugs - I do!