Review – Flushed Away

How far Aardman has drifted from the days when it used to be worth something as a studio. Wallace and Grommit were one thing, but this is just silliness. Gone are the simple scenarios that made “Creature Comforts” such a clever short (and even the new TV series based thereon has more going for it than this circus). Instead of skillful writing, now all we get are celebrity voices and elaborate production values. And even the expensive effects don’t work all that well; there’s just something about using computers to simulate extruded clay that robs the show of the benefits of both the older and the newer technology. I liked the rat city constructed in the London sewers, but otherwise I thought this was a pretty charmless picture. Mildly amusing