The fact that regardless of how jaded and spiteful this man is and yet he still took off a sin for the slug gags shows that there’s still hope for us all
@@Mewithabeard Oh, right. I haven't watched X-Men in a while, so I forgot the release dates. And it's a shame that Dreamworks and Aardman ended their collaboration after this movie underperformed at the box office. And a sequel never happened.
@@skylerfreeman1173 I remember watching the commercial for it on the coralline disc and as soon as it came out to I think Redbox we rented it and I didn't sleep that night lol. I was also like 8 when I saw it.
I saw this as a kid and loved it. Seeing it again and I realized it had so many references to other stuff, It took me hours to finish it to count all the references.
Some species of amphibians can change sexes. Maybe the Toad turned female to lay eggs and then switched back to male? Or maybe there was a mother who was never seen nor mentioned?
I think part of why they didn't create this movie with stop-motion (or as they call it, clay-mation) is because after their previous (and first) feature length film, their studio burnt down and they lost all that they had made (almost everything from Wallace & Gromit's history at that point). Thankfully they kept going and got back to working with clay again.
I think they were also under contract to make a certain numbers of films for Dreamworks and they switched to CGI because stop motion takes for-freaking-ever.
Yeah. Mixing water with plasticine is not easy to do, as it damages models. Plus it was 2006, so resources were limited then for improvising. However they do animate the characters like a stop motion film to keep their classic style while everything else is beautifully rendered. I honestly think it looks fantastic. @@imaswiftieokay
No. That building that burned down in the fire was just storing all of their old models and sets. From what I've heard, the actual answer is because they couldn't practically animate the movie in stopmotion with all the water, so it had to be done in CG instead.
Having rats myself, I always laugh hard at "This should be enough for two days", as they voraciously munch everything you hand them and then look all affronted, as if to say: "You haven't fed us, human." XD
I remember watching this movie when in a movie theater in the US while I was on holiday (from the UK) and it was very surreal as US movie theaters are usually quite loud (more so than UK ones) with people reacting to the film. And it was dead silent other than us from the UK who definitely found it funnier than everyone else there 😂
Oh, my childhood! Truly, the definition of a British childhood. Watching this on the regular, every year as you grow up. British classic. And a fantastic James Bond parody.
This was one of my childhood films. Certainly, one of the weirdest things to define it. I'm not going to forgive that they removed it from Netflix! Well, at least you made me notice some details I would otherwise not notice.
I was high af the first time I watched this movie and when that little rat told the big one to keep his legs straight when he hits the water so they land safe, and then he himself hits the concrete and just folds up made me and my cousin laugh so hard we rewound it like 20 times. Even watching it sober it makes me laugh so I have to ask, how did that not get a sin off for how hilarious it is?
with all the recognition this film is getting now & with the love people are showing for it along with the recognition i really hope that aardman will be more open to making a sequel someday, some may say that they don’t want a sequel or that it just doesn’t need one. i have been wanting a flushed away sequel since i was 5 years old & even though over the years i’ve grown & got interested in other things i have never lost interest in this movie or a sequel for it
Pitch meeting writer: "I wanna make a cute animated movie about a rat getting flushed into a sewer." Exec: "yeah sure ok should be a fun cheap kids movie." Writer: "It needs to star Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Andy Serkis, and Ian McKellen." Exec: ".......what did you say it was about again?"
This is one of the more underrated and overlooked movies in DreamWorks history, similar to Spirit, Antz Shark tales, chicken run (kinda) and a few others.
Flushed Away is lowkey trash. Wtf is Spirit? Antz was out shone by A Bugs Life so not really underrated, an unjust over shadowing would be Mega Mind being underrated due to Despicable Me. Shark Tale is not underrated, it's a cult classic. Chicken Run is underrated tho, top tier movie and way better than Flushed Away.
now you criticize the randomness of the song and I grant you its a random song, but as someone whose childhood this film was a part of, the song is an integralpiece of the scene. hell, for me that scene is one of the most memorable mostly for the music.
sadly at the time it released it was a flop at the box office but i’m hoping with all the recognition it’s getting now that aardman will be more open to making a sequel
@@jacobishere5189 No, because Dreamworks would need Aardman’s permission and they broke apart days before this movie released because of each studios lack of story. The studio burnt down in 2005 and clay and water don’t mix well. The only sequels we are getting is Chicken Run 2: Dawn of the Nugget (2023) and a Wallace and Gromit movie in 2024.
From what I gather, Flushed Away or a similar film was going to be claymation. But the Aardman warehouse filled with all their props caught fire or arson and they lost almost everything in there. Which is what led to this. I still think it's a good film with what they had to work with.
What I heard was that they used computer animation because they decided that it would be difficult (maybe impossible) to do the water scenes (realistically) with claymation.
5:34 the Slugs actually are the minions. The Slugs were supposed to be a big spin-off type of thing but then got canned due to the minions and them being too much alike when the movie came out.
@@pharmz1562 watch flushed away again The fact that you said came out years after proves my point. Too sudden & we would have gotten it. Literally one of the slugs in that movie has "Bob's" mannerisms n all. LOOK 😂
Great video for a highly underrated movie. I would've added a sin for the scene where a police rat blew a whistle at the tsunami, thinking that would stop it
"Chris exists in the Flushed Away universe and the movie doesn't even acknowledge it!" actually killed me. That is the funniest thing I've heard you say ever
*Male lead gets hit in his genitals five times in a row after the female lead got to the ground effortlessly:* This is fine. *A male character screaming like a girl is used for comedy:* THE OUTRAGE. THIS IS SO OFFENSIVE.
Ardman ONLY went 3D for this movie because their Wearhouse burned to the ground and destroyed most of their props and stages. It was make this or shutter the studio.
I literally haven’t thought about this movie in years, but on Friday I saw it was on Netflix. I watched it Saturday night and now there’s a cinema sins video about about 😗 Just wow.
I didn't remember this movie, I literally forgot how much of rent free space this movie occupied in the back of my mind. I watched it like 17 times as a kid
An additional sin for the little girl who owns Ronnie only having one pet rat. Rats are highly social animals, and owning less than two at a time is kinda cruel.
Did anybody else see the trailer where Rodney had two hamster butlers and wondered what happened to that? Those scenes were fully animated too, it's almost like they had a plot that touched on inequality of classes and privileges, but they decided to go with "rich guy is lonely" angle as to not scare any investors.
I'm so glad you mentioned that! I saw that trailer as a child, and felt totally insane when the movie came out, because no one but me seemed to notice/remember the hamster butlers were missing.
I definitely remember those butlers. It weirded me out that they never showed up. I figured that since he was completely alone was the focus of the film, they must have just got rid of them, bypassing the possibility that people can feel completely alone even when surrounded by others outside their social group. A lot of movies have trailers that are completely misleading or contain things that never happen in the movie. Not sure why.
0:52 I believe the reason they prompted for computer animation because this movie includes lot of water, and plasticine figures can't handle water very well. When they had to use water in earlier films, like Wallace & Gromit, they used synthetic resin to emulate water drops, but entire pools of water or underwater shots are just too complicated for those animation techniques.💧🌊
With how hilarious this movie is, how did it end up as a box office flop?! This is one of DreamWorks’s funniest movies! It’s literally a laugh-a-minute movie and has an all-star cast!
The only thing I remember about this movie was that a part of the villain's evil plan involved making everybody go to the bathroom at the same time via a sports match which I find hillarious to this day
