Flushed Away...Again! is a 2011 British/American direct-to-video and theaters computer animated action/adventure comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Animations and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is a sequel to the 2006 animated film Flushed Away, and features three reprises of the roles of Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet and Shane Richie from the original film, with new voices by David Tennant, Peter Kay, Jim Broadbent and Jane Horrocks.
Plot[]
Roddy has returned to Kensington, but his family goes on another trip. While Roddy is in the house, he encounters two new gerbil friends, Gilbert and Sullivan. They teach Roddy obstacle courses and give him trophies every time he wins them. However, Roddy, Gilbert, and Sullivan hear a noise in the kitchen. The noise in the kitchen happens to be Sid again. The reason why he was hiding in the kitchen again is because he wanted to hide from the family's new cat. Because of this, Roddy plans to flush him down again, but Sid doesn't like the idea because Sid didn't want to go to Rita's house, due to the house being "too crowded". So Sid flushes down Roddy and ends up in Ratropolis again. In there, Rodddy meets a mouse named Sam. He orders a task for Roddy to find him a green hat because he doesn't want to be a bald mouse and he wants to impress his girlfriend, Susan. At first, Roddy thinks that task is ridiculous, but Sam convinces to him to find the green hat because he said "If you find it, I will show you a way home". The hat ends up being in a dangerous sewer full of evil mexican spiders and evil slime-spitting slugs. After defeating all the spiders and slugs, he finds the hat, but he encounters evil mocking flies. Eventually, he defeats them too and returns to Sam. After Roddy gives Sam the green hat, he shows him a way back to Kensington. Roddy returns home again and he learns to make friends with Sid. As a result, Roddy and Sid (now) become brothers.
Cast[]
Hugh Jackman as Roddy St. James, a pampered pet mouse who lives in a Kensington apartment with a wealthy english family.
Kate Winslet as Rita Malone, a street smart scavenger rat that only appears in the beginning of this film.
Shane Richie as Sid, an over-weight and lazy rat from the sewers.
Jim Broadbent as Sam, a nervous rat townsperson who lives in Ratropolis.
Jane Horrocks as Susan, an optimistic rat who's Sam's girlfriend.
David Tennant as Gilbert, a gerbil assistant to Roddy who used to live in Europe.
Peter Kay as Sullivan, another gerbil assistant to Roddy who's Gilbert's brother.
Sam Fell as Prophet (Harold), a cowardly rat who thinks that another flood will come to Ratropolis.
Christopher Fairbank as Mexican Spiders, evil spiders that used to live in mexican sewers.
David Bowers as Slime-Spitting Slugs, evil slugs that are the complete opposite of the slugs from the first film.
Emma Tate as Mocking Flies, evil flies that are evil cousins of the fly from the first film.
Release[]
Theaters: November 28, 2011 (US), December 5, 2011 (UK)
DVD and Blu-Ray: November 29, 2011 (US), December 6, 2011 (UK)
Reception[]
The film received negative reviews and currently holds a 0% approval rating by the critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Many film critics stated that the film "has great voice talents, but a very weak storyline and it's not as fun as the original".
Trivia[]
Since Dreamworks and Aardman split up in 2006, this film was distributed by Paramount Pictures
The mexican spiders appeared in Flushed Away: The Video Game.
The plot of the film is similar to the Flushed Away video game as well.
The film is 76 minutes long.