Flushed Away
Directed by	David Bowers Sam Fell
Written by	Dick Clement Ian La Frenais
Starring	Hugh Jackman Kate Winslet Ian McKellen Andy Serkis Bill Nighy Jean Reno Shane Ritchie
Music by	Harry Gregson Williams
Distributed by	DreamWorks Animation
Release date(s)	November 3, 2006
Running time	1 hr. 26 min.
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Flushed Away is a computer animated British film directed by David Bowers and Sam Fell. It is a partnership between Aardman Animations and DreamWorks Animation, and is Aardman's first completely computer-animated feature as opposed to the usual stop-motion. The film stars the voice talents of Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Andy Serkis, Bill Nighy, Ian McKellen, Shane Richie and Jean Reno. The screenplay was written by Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Christopher Lloyd, Joe Keenan, and William Davies. The film was released in movie theatres on November 3, 2006, and is distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was rated PG by the MPAA for crude humor and some language. It was distributed in Switzerland, Spain, and Netherlands by Universal Pictures. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (550x813, 86 KB) Summary http://comingsoon. ... David A. Bowers was the mayor of Roanoke, Virginia from 1992 to 2000. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... 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Characters

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• Roddy St. James (Hugh Jackman) - A cultured pet rat who resides in a posh flat in the London borough of Kensington. Roddy's life is one of non-stop leisure (he begins the film by staging everything from volleyball and golf games to movie premieres with his owner's dolls). However, he is visibly lonely despite his perceived freedom. His personality is initially standoffish, nervous to the point of cowardice and self-centred, but he grows throughout the film to be brave and loyal to his friend Rita. Roddy is clearly very intelligent, though more naive and a lot less cunning and resourceful than Rita. A lot of the film's comedic moments centre around Roddy's clumsiness and subsequent apologising when inadvertently destroying his surroundings. Though despite these outbursts of almost Clouseau-level uncoordination, he is also apparently an excellent dancer.

• Rita Malone (Kate Winslet) - a scavenger sewer rat who scrapes a living captaining her boat the Jammy Dodger (which is quite literally an old tub), in order to support her family. Though her luck seems to change with the discovery of a ruby supposedly fallen down the drain of Buckingham Palace, it is coveted by the fiercely Royalist crime boss "The Toad". Probably due to being "Big Sister" to an army of siblings, Rita's attitude to seemingly everything is one of no-nonsense authority, though she is visibly upset at both the loss of the ruby and the prospect of saying goodbye to Roddy. She seems to enjoy taunting the Toad's pursuing henchrats by slapping and wiggling her bottom.

• The Toad (Ian McKellen) - an effete English toad and crimelord, exiled from the world above via a lavatory, who evidently parlayed his commanding nature and large size into a criminal empire in the rats' city. Blames ratdom at large for his fall from grace, to the point of hateful obsession. He is fanatically devoted to the Royal Family, and collects garish tourist souvenirs which he treats as high-class Objets d'Art. He initially appears to feel kinship with the equally-posh Roddy, until the latter's clumsiness results in the destruction of the beloved collection. His character is very similar to Mister Bridger, the character portrayed by Noel Coward in The Italian Job.

• Le Frog (Jean Reno) - a French mercenary frog, he is The Toad's cousin and leader of a cell of Gallic ninja frogs whom The Toad hires when his henchrats fail to deliver. Le Frog is quite disdainful of all things British (British wine seems to physically offend him, as well as the very idea of "York-shire puddings" and "Chips and Fish"). In particular his cousin, whom he describes at one point as "Le Fruitcake". His general attitude towards working for The Toad is weary duty tinged with familial embarrassment. Curiously, he is quite flirtatious with Rita, evidently not sharing his cousin's prejudices towards rodents.

• Spike (Andy Serkis) - the smarter of Toad's top two henchrats, which is admittedly not saying much. Described by director Sam Fell as " a sixteen-year-old in his first real job", Spike is characterised by a manic enthusiasm for villainy, despite being too stupid to be genuinely evil. He professes his middle name to be "danger", but it is actually "Leslie". Despite his small size, relatively young age and general ineptitude, he frequently chastises his friend and colleague Whitey for what he deems un-hitman-like behaviour (such as wearing pink mittens). He wields a large wooden nutcracker called "The Persuader", with which he performs intimidating (if unconvincing) ventriloquism. Spike spends the majority of the film being injured and is very touchy about having "little 'ands".

• Whitey (Bill Nighy) - the less-intelligent of the Toad's right hand rats. In contrast to the berserk antics of Spike, Whitey is actually very gentle and polite, even to those he is supposed to be intimidating, which is probably why he manages to escape without serious injury during the film. Seemingly a reversal of the "evil albino" stereotype, Whitey was a former labrat "up top", and was used in shampoo experiments, which left his fur bright white, though it did cure his dandruff. He is apparently fond of curry, despite being left with, in his own words, "a bum like a Japanese flag" the next day.

• Fat Barry - a henchrat (Christopher Knights)
• Thimblenose Ted - a henchrat (Christopher Fairbank)
• Ladykiller - a henchrat (Sam Fell)
• Harold - a crackpot street prophet warning people against a flood he declares will render the city and its inhabitants "doooooooomed!"
• Police Constable Colin - a Police rat.
• Marcel - French frog, mime
• Sid - sewer rat who ends up in Roddy's house (Shane Richie)
• Fergus - Rita's large younger brother
• Shocky - one of Rita's brothers, who constantly zaps rats with a large Battery zapper.
• Liam - one of Rita's brothers
• Tabitha - Roddy's human owner
• Mr. Malone - Rita's father (David Suchet)
• Mrs. Malone - Rita's mother (Kathy Burke)
• Granny Malone (Miriam Margolyes) - Rita's grandmother, who seems to be under the impression that Roddy is Welsh popstar Tom Jones.
• Rodint - rat street artist
• Slugs - Introduced first as one scared creature, they inhabit the sewers, and constantly re-appear, often singing across many scenes as a Greek chorus. They supply the vocals to every piece of incidental music in the film.

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Synopsis

Roddy St. James is a decidedly upper-crust pet rat who makes his home in a posh Kensington flat. When a common sewer rat named Sid comes spewing out of the sink and decides he lives where he likes, Roddy schemes to get rid of Sid by luring him into the "jacuzzi", which is actually the toilet bowl. Sid may be an ignorant slob, but being a sewer rat, he’s no fool when it comes to knowing his plumbing. He plays along and instead pushes Roddy in and flushes him away into the sewer. He is startled, and startles a slug, and as the camera pans it reveals an entire community of slugs that is startled. Bourgeois at the end of the thirteenth century. ... Species The fancy rat or pet rat is a domesticated breed of the Brown Rat (Rattus norvegicus) or, more rarely, of the Black Rat (R. rattus). ... Look up Posh in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... , A wealthy area in Kensington, that is just south of Kensington High Street. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A sewer is an artificial conduit or system of conduits used to remove sewage (human liquid waste) and to provide drainage. ... For other uses, see Jacuzzi (disambiguation). ...

Roddy meets Rita Malone, an enterprising scavenger rat who works the drains in her faithful boat, the Jammy Dodger. Rita does not like Roddy at all initially, but ends up taking him along as the villainous Toad sends his henchrats Spike, a short, jumpy rat, Whitey, a large albino former lab rat, and "Thimblenose" Ted, a zombie-like rat with a thimble for a nose, after her because she had stolen back her father's prized jewel a long time ago. The Toad royally despises all rodents, and it doesn’t help matters any when Roddy accidentally knocks over and destroys his collection of Buckingham Palace souvenirs. He decides to have them iced…literally. He attempts to freeze them with liquid nitrogen, but fails due to Rita’s plan to get out of their (Rita and Roddy) situation. This is incidental to the Toad, because in their successful bid to escape, Rita has taken a uniquely-designed electric cable. During the escape, Roddy accidentally tears Rita's belt, after which she uses the cable as a replacement, completely unaware of its significant value to the Toad. It is essential to the operation of the Floodgates, and therefore to his plan—to open the gates during halftime of the World Cup, and the ensuing mass bathroom break will flood the "city" and drown its population. He can then use the depopulated city as a home for millions of his own tadpole offspring. For other uses, see Gemstone (disambiguation). ... General Name, Symbol, Number nitrogen, N, 7 Chemical series nonmetals Group, Period, Block 15, 2, p Appearance colorless gas Standard atomic weight 14. ... This article is about world cups in general. ...

Roddy (right) and Rita (left) arguing over the ruby.

After all the trouble of outwitting Toad and his henchrats, Roddy finds that the ruby is a fake and breaks it in order to prove it to Rita. She becomes very angry, in fact going through a fearful rage as she punches Roddy in the face, causing him to fall into the bottom part of the Jammy Dodger. Then, she finds items in the deck and begins to throw things at him. However, she then starts to realize that she cannot get the money she needed for her family. Roddy feels very bad for her, so he makes a deal with her that if she brings him back to Kensington, he will reward her with a real ruby to use for the money that she needs. She goes back to visit her family before setting off and they take to Roddy warmly, except for her —- especially when Roddy steals the Jammy Dodger. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

However, he doesn’t get far -— the Dodger is a sensitive kluge of salvaged materials, and only Rita knows how to maintain it properly. She then strands him on the rubber ducky she used to catch up with him. After Roddy explains that he heard her little brother suggest selling him to the Toad - he had been paying close attention to her family in admiration - Rita forgives Roddy, and the two continue their journey. Next, the two have an encounter with Spike and Whitey in a remote-controlled toy boat, with Thimblenose Ted and others reinforcing them on eggbeater jet skis. Despite their arsenal, their pursuers fail miserably—now that the two have reached a resolution, they make a formidable team. The two reconcile after the chase, and Roddy shares an evening meal with Rita.

Incensed at his minions’ repeated failures, the Toad decides to send to France for his cousin — an infamous, if somewhat laid back and degenerate, mercenary known as Le Frog. He brings along his henchfrogs to finish the duo off and retrieve the cable. He fails after Rita grabs it away from him as she and Roddy parachute their way out of the sewer, at the expense of Rita's beloved ship, and land safely inside Roddy's mansion. Roddy keeps his promise and even rewards Rita with an additional emerald so that Rita can build another Jammy Dodger. She believes that he has friends and relatives at home until she sees his cage and realizes that he is a pet. Sid who still runs amok at Roddy's home, is introduced to Rita as "Rupert"—Roddy's non-existent brother. Unfortunately for Roddy, Sid and Rita know each other personally. Rita attempts to comfort Roddy, but he is too proud to admit his loneliness. In a state of sorrow, she leaves him to get back to the sewers. The word degeneracy has more than one meaning: In general, degeneracy means reverting to an earlier, simpler, state In mathematics, a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as to belong to another, usually simpler, class. ... For other uses, see Mercenary (disambiguation). ... This article is about the device. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Look up Brother in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Brother may have the following meanings, in addition to and derived from its main one of male sibling; see Family. a male friend or acquaintance, in some cultures shortened to Bro or Brah a peer, male or female (though such usage is...

In a confrontation with Sid who tells him that he is holding his bladder until half-time as he does not want to miss the World Cup finals, Roddy realizes the belt's value to the Toad when he recollects a prophetic rat telling him that the floodgates won't hold forever — if the Toad opens the gates during half-time, the city will be flooded when the humans collectively flush the toilets during the break. He leaves the mansion to Sid, and has him flush him a second time, determined to rescue Rita and her family from the Toad's evil plan.

Roddy saves the day when he freezes the incoming wave with liquid nitrogen before it is able to wash out the rats who are too engrossed watching the World Cup. He helps Rita and her family build a Jammy Dodger II and sets off with her and the entire brood to start their lives anew.

As the credits start, it turns out that Roddy left his human home at the best time as Sid is soon faced with a surprise brought by the little girl named Tabitha, who used to take care of Roddy, a cat.

Production

The film's original concept involved pirates, and was pitched to DreamWorks soon after the release of Chicken Run in 2000. However, Aardman were told that there was no market for pirate films (this was before Pirates of the Caribbean was made), and were told to modernise the concept. By the time the rewrite was done, the project had to be postponed to make way for the production of Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; it was finally released after not only the original Pirates of the Caribbean movie, but also its first sequel. This article is about the movie. ... The year 2000 in film involved some significant events. ... Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a movie of adventure and romance set in the Caribbean during the seventeenth century. ...

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Traditionally, Aardman have used stop-motion for their animated features, but it is very complex to render water with this technique, and using real water can damage plasticine models. It would have been very expensive to composite CGI into shots that include water, of which there are many in the movie, so they chose to make Flushed Away their first all-CGI production.^[1] The characters still resemble Aardman's classic characters, as the designs were taken straight from the original plasticine models. To give the impression of stop motion animation the movement of the mouths of the characters was not motion blurred. A stop motion animation of a moving coin. ... Not to be confused with the Pleistocene epoch which is part of the geologic timescale. ... Computer-generated imagery (commonly abbreviated as CGI) is the application of the field of computer graphics (or more specifically, 3D computer graphics) to special effects in films, television programs, commercials, simulators and simulation generally, and printed media. ...

This is the second of two Aardman-produced films released by Dreamworks. Aardman's experience with Dreamworks during the making of the film led to a split between the two studios.^[2]

DVD release

Flushed Away was released on DVD February 20, 2007. It included behind the scenes, deleted info, Jammy Dodger videos and all new slug songs. It was released in the UK on April 2, 2007, where it was packaged with a plasticine 'Slug Farm' kit.^[3] is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 92nd day of the year (93rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...

Reaction

Critical response

During early production, Aardman revealed that the story would be about an "Uppercrust pet rat", but in the completed film, Roddy mentions in his first line of dialogue that he is a mouse. This had angered Fancy rat communities since it confused people into thinking he was actually a common pet mouse, and there was a feeling that Aardman didn't like the idea of a uppercrust pet rat. One interpretation is that in the beginning he refuses to believe he is related to common sewer rats, but in the end he finally understands that he belongs with other rats.^{[citation needed]} Flushed Away acquired 75% on Rotten Tomatoes. Species The fancy rat or pet rat is a domesticated breed of the Brown Rat (Rattus norvegicus) or, more rarely, of the Black Rat (R. rattus). ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

Box office performance

Flushed Away collected $64,488,856 in the United States, which was below the average of other CGI films from Dreamworks Animation, but a healthy $111,814,663 from international markets. DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. ...

Worldwide total: $176,319,242.^[4]

Cultural references

• Flushed Away makes numerous satirical references to well-known films, including Star Wars, Finding Nemo, The Lord of the Rings:The Two Towers, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Trainspotting, Spider-Man, the James Bond films, Lady and the Tramp, Mary Poppins, Superman, the Batman TV series, Titanic, Frankenstein, The Fly, Beauty and the Beast, Team America: World Police, Caddyshack, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. In addition there are numerous references to Wallace and Gromit, another Aardman production, and other DreamWorks films such as Chicken Run and Shrek.
• The Toad appears to be a parody of the stereotypical Bond style supervillain with a particular emphasis on Ernst Stavro Blofeld. His plan to flood the sewers is similar to the plans of Karl Stromberg and Hugo Drax.
• Rita's appearance and personality seem to be modeled on Lara Croft.
• The film bears similarities to the Disney film Basil the Great Mouse Detective.
• In one scene where Roddy is picking out an outfit to wear, he holds up a suit worn by the Marvel Comics character Wolverine. Hugh Jackman, who provides the voice for Roddy, played the character Wolverine in all three of the X-Men films.

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References

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External links

• Flushed Away Official Website
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