Before this review starts I would like to
point out that “Shaun The Sheep Movie” is the correct title no matter how
grammatically incorrect it may be.
Shaun The Sheep made his debut in the
Wallace and Gromit short “A Close Shave” and has since gone on to have his own
spin off TV show. This film is the next step. The film starts like all of the
short episodes of the TV series in that it finds Shaun on his familiar farm and
its set up is very similar to those episodes. Shaun and his friends are bored
with their daily routine and get into mischief in an attempt to get one up on
the farmer. However soon things go wrong and Shaun and his flock leave the farm
for the more cinematic “Big City”.
It’s in the city the film really starts to
come alive: it embodies classic silent comedy as the flock attempt to solve
their problems (rescue the farmer and escape the animal warden) but things only
get worse. It’s in the city and with this form of silent comedy that Aardman
Animation really starts to shine, filling the city with tiny details and sight
gags that demand a second viewing - these tiny details really bring the city to
life/
Whilst there is no language as such this is
very clearly a modern British multicultural city. The film rips along with
constant pace and energy flowing from scene to scene tied together by the loose
plot and you start to forget how delicately made stop motion films are.
It’s definitely Aardman’s best film of the
last ten years however in my opinion it doesn’t quite reach the brilliance of
Curse Of The Were Rabbit. It terrifically funny as well the gags keep on coming
and there not slight giggles there are constantly big belly laughs.It is also
shorter. Yet it proves itself a worthy recent British children’s film like last
year’s Paddington.
4/5 Stars
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