Shaun the Sheep Movie 2015

     Shaun the sheep is tired of doing the same work at the farm everyday.  He decides to take a day off.  The only way he can do this is if the farmer doesn’t know?  More happens than Shaun and Bitzer the dog can handle!!  The Farmer falls asleep because sheep were jumping over the fence.  He gets put into an old trailer and the trailer starts to move.  The trailer goes all the way to the city and no one at the farm knows what to do??  Shaun and the Blitzer decide to take a bus to the city to try to locate the farmer.  All of sudden, all the sheep are going too??
     This is one of the funniest movies I’ve have ever seen!!  The farm is located in the town of Mossinham and the farm is called Mossy Bottom Farm.  The Farmer’s name is John, the smallest sheep is Timmy and he sometimes has a pacifier.  Shirley is the largest sheep, there are two sheep that are twins and Hazel is one of the flock members.  Nuts is the sheep with strange eyes??  The movie and also the series are made with Claymation and it’s very time consuming plus labor intensive.  The movie is a spin-off on the series and the series was created by Nick Park.  It is also a spin off of the Wallace and Gromit film, A Close Shave.  There is talking in the film by the characters but the words are unintelligible mumbling especially from the Farmer.  5* (I really liked this movie)

85 min, Animation directed and written by Mark Burton and Richard Starzak with the voices of Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes, Omid Djalili, Richard Webber, Kate Harbour, Rim Hands, Andy Nyman, Simon Greenall, Emma Tate, Jack Paulson, Sean Connolly, Henry Burton, Dhimant Vyaas, Sophie Laughton, Nia Medi James.  The animation company is Aardman Animation.

Note:  Imdb 7.3 out of 10, Roger Ebert 4* Susan Wloszczyna, Rotten Tomatoes 99% critic 80% audience, Rollingstone 3 1/2* Peter Travers, The Guardian 4* out of 5* Andrew Pulver, Letterboxd 3.6* out of 5*, Amazon 4.5* out of 5* with 3249 reviews, Common Sense Media Sandie Angulo Chen age 5+ 5*, 2* educational, 4* positive, 3* role models, 2* violence & scariness, 1* sexy stuff, 1* language, 2* consumerism, Metacritic 81 out of 100 with 30 critics (positive 30) User Score 8.5 out of 10 (positive 198, mixed 16, negative 9.  

Special Note:  Twenty animators worked on the film and each produced two seconds of footage per day!!  The man shown in a scene photographing birds at the pond is executive producer Nick Park.  All the scenes are visual and there is no dialogue except from animal sound effects.  The film was released on the Chinese New Year’s Day of the Year of the Sheep.