Flushed Away is a 2006 computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by David Bowers and Sam Fell, produced by Cecil Kramer, David Sproxton, and Peter Lord, and written by Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Chris Lloyd, Joe Keenan and Will Davies. It was the third and final DreamWorks Animation film co-produced with Aardman Animations following Chicken Run (2000) and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), and was the first Aardman project completely made in CGI animation as opposed to their usual stop-motion. The film stars the voices of Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen, Shane Richie, Bill Nighy, Andy Serkis and Jean Reno. In the film, a pampered pet mouse named Roddy St. James is flushed down the toilet in his Kensington apartment by a sewer rat named Sid, and befriends a scavenger named Rita Malone in order to get back home while evading a sinister toad and his hench-rats.
The film was released in the United States by Paramount Pictures on 3 November 2006, and in the United Kingdom on 1 December 2006.
Cast[]
- Hugh Jackman as Roddy St. James, a pampered but lonely pet mouse with a British accent who lives in a Kensington luxury apartment with a wealthyBritish family. He is flushed down the toilet by Sid the sewer rat into the sewer drains.
- Kate Winslet as Rita Malone, a street-wise and rather mean-spirited scavenger mouse and the oldest child of a large family. She is the captain of The Jammy Dodger and Roddy's love interest later girlfriend.
- Ian McKellen as the Toad, the main antagonist of the film and a proud/tyrannical amphibian wanting the entire population of Ratropolis to be killed off so he can make room for his hundreds of off-spring. For his performance, Ian McKellen won the Annie Award for Voice Acting in a Feature Production.
- Jean Reno as Le Frog, the Toad's French cousin. He refers to the Toad as "my warty English cousin". He masters martial arts and is the leader of a team of hench-frogs.
- Andy Serkis as Spike, one of the Toad's two top hench-rats. He is the quicker-witted and more aggressive of the two.
- Bill Nighy as Whitey, another of the Toad's two top hench-rats. Whitey is an albino rat, and Spike's partner. Unlike Spike, Whitey is sympathetic and less vicious but is also ignorant and gullible.
- Shane Richie as Sid, an over-weight and lazy pet rat from the sewer drain. He is an acquaintance of Rita and her family, and the one who flushes Roddy down the toilet into the sewer drains.