Flushed Away: An UnderRATed Failure?⎮A Dreamworks Aardman Discussion
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2022
- Why is it that none of the Aardman Dreamworks team ups seemed to do well at all? Is there something that i'm missing here?
Today we decided to dig a little deeper, with a particular focus on Flushed Away, the worst financial failure of the bunch, and try to figure out what went wrong. - Zábava
one of the things interesting things about flushed away is the representation of British culture. I think in an era of film where viewers were used to seeing films through an American cultural lens, flushed away is a stark difference to that.
this movie was my first exposure to British culture. as a kid who always watched American cartoons, i grew up being able to speak English better than my peers. But i remembered when i watched Flushed Away, i can understand the dialogue but i always thought it felt different (in a good way) due to the British accents and the terms they use being different from American terms
I think the best quote in Flushed Away will always be huzzah a man of quality.
HUHzAAh a man of QUALI-Teh
"Oh, finally, somebody gets it!"
Flushed Away is easily Aardman's most quotable movie.
@@SSBBPOKEFAN facts, my brother and I reference it constantly. Sometimes a thing happens that reminds us both of a line and we quote it simultaneously lol. We've probs quoted the whole film at this point
I love Flushed Away and Chicken Run :D
I'd love for them to be talked about more
I loved this movie as a kid
Same!
I still love it to this day
I always loved this film so much, but it was only recently that I was seeing clips of it more often and then learning the amazing casts it had, like wtf
To give you an insight of how good the jokes are: my history professor told our class to find the best French joke to tell in class, and one kid went up to him and explained what Flushed Away is so he could tell him about the scene where Le Frog orders the frogs to attack and they all surrender. A dated and somewhat inaccurate joke but it still shows how this movie is viewed as having a great sense of humor by those who have seen it.
I think about this movie from time to time because it lowkey traumatized me when I was younger. Despite that, my mom would play it a lot for my brothers and I ✋😭😭
for a while back i really thought i made it up. i used to watch it all the time with my grandparents but couldnt find a movie about a rat and toilet (literally the only thing i could rember about the movie) it was truly such a good movie
I love flushed away it was my childhood
same here
@@nicktechnubyte1184 We all did
Speaking of Dreamworks, what about “The Road to El Dorado”?
I still have the DVD and it’s amazing, underrated, and yet, forgotten!
Elton John’s amazing *original* music, an amazing cast, beautiful and colourful animation, and great story.
I don’t know if you talked about it, but please do
Yes, the movie which spawned a dozen or more meme formats from nothing, is forgotten and underrated.
I think a contributing factor is just that this takes place in a sewer. It's gross, they literally sail through human waste. Well, not sail, but you get my point. Not to mention the slugs. I enjoy a lot of Aardman's films, but not this one. It just seems gross to me.
But shrek is gross. Why doesn't this work?
@@Mariathinking , well, it's not gross for the majority. Sure, you have a swamp, and mud, and farts, but you also have fields of sunflowers, lovely forests, a volcano, and open fields. It's not all gross, and even the swamp has some nice parts. As iconic as the swamp is, it isn't in the whole film, not remotely. Whereas here, it's mostly a sewer. I don't know. I just know I enjoy Shrek's humor and story more as well.
@@no1ofconsequence936 Honestly I don't think that's a reason if anything that really sounds more like Au problem with it
@@kingj9664 , maybe I'm alone in this, but it is my own reason, and I thought it was worth including for discussion since it wasn't brought up in the video.
@@no1ofconsequence936 It's fake. Grow up.
Keep your legs straight, when you hit the water!
Splat!
I kept my legs straight Spike.
Ow!
Love this movie
Man, I LOVED Flushed Away as a kid. And I still do! I was so obsessed with Flushed Away, that I made an UNDERTALE VERSION WITH OCS!!! AND A SEQUEL THAT'S IN THE WORKS!!! For Awaytale, not Flushed Away. My favorite characters are Roddy, Rita, Spike and Whitey. Le Toad is a good villain, and Le Frog is a really good side villain! Me and my family quote Flushed Away all the time! Our favorite quote is "You got your mother's hands." The soundtrack is AMAZING. My favorite scene is where Roddy and Rita escape the Fridge! I love Flushed Away. I really do.
Flushed away wasn’t popular? I love this movie so much! It is one of my favorite animated comedies of all time, alongside chicken run and Curse of the Were Rabbit.
It should be remembered for the scene with the French ninja frogs if nothing else
I literally completely forgot of this movies existence until you reminded me with the thumbnail.
Hm, interesting, fair, valid and accurate points, huh, there’s so many films out there that could deserve a little more attention than what they got, i wonder what kind of Movie you will talk about next, can’t wait to see.
Oh yeaaaaah!! Finally, this movie is getting recognition!
I was terrified of this when I was younger and for WHAT? Maybe I just thought I would fall down the toilet...
Still own and watch chicken run. Flushed away along with Wallace and Grommet never crossed my radar. Or should I say I wasn't able to buy them when they came out.
When you think about it, rats are social creatures, their one of those pets you need to get atleast 2 of otherwise theyll get depressed and lonely, so it makes sense that hed have imaginary friends :(
Weird, I grew up watching films like over the hedge and flushed away , and was soooo shocked how many of my friends didn’t know of its existence. But then again I would get these movies at CD stores for cheap 😪and watch it in the Spanish dubs
In terms of box office intake, Flushed Away didn't make that much less than Chicken Run or Curse of the Were-Rabbit, but the problem was that the budget was five times that of Curse of the Were-Rabbit, which was considered a success. British humour doesn't travel well in America because they're not as accustomed to British films as Brits are to their movies. For example, Hot Fuzz was a MASSIVE hit in the UK. It did have some success in in America, but not by American blockbuster standards. Although Harry Potter and James Bond have been rare exceptions to the rule.
Chicken Run was a big deal because it benefitted from the fact it was the first full length feature by the makers of Wallace and Gromit, which had a large cult following at that point, so COTWR was of course going to do well in Britain. But Flushed Away didn't have any of that familiarity, so it was always going to be a risk. Apparently it was CGI because of all the water involved, which cost a lot more than stop motion. So, simply put, giving a budget of $149 million to a British animation kinda doomed it from the start.
I remember getting up bright and early to go to the first showing of this movie the day of it's release!
And it was amazing!
This was my favorite movie when I was younger. I still sing the slug songs.
I still have the DVD
I think these movies get forgotten because there hasn't been constant sequels like Toy Story or Despicable Me but i did think Flushed Away was kinda boring.
In the movie the Toad was going for Germany,in the Germany Vs England In Soccer.Toad was exterminating the rats,rats where going for Englad,he was going to replace the rats with his Toads.Idk lmaooo
Remember The Tales of Despereaux
Yes omg
I loved flushed away and chicken run. I also really like the Wallace and gromit films. I watched monsters verses aliens when I was a kid and I liked it, but I was a kid like before I was 10.
Chicken run is so fucking good
2:21 There's the same toy dragon from Shrek 2
I freaking loved watching Aardman as kid. I still watch them to this day. I really find it disappointing that Aardman despite having one of the biggest animation studios by their side. Couldn’t reach as high they should have. Wallace and Gromit and Flushed Away had DreamWorks’s name attached. The studio that brought us Shrek. Surely people would have wanted to see something from the masterminds behind Shrek. But they didn’t. And that really upsetting because in my opinion DreamWorks and Aardman are the best animation studios. Yeah, I consider them to be better than Disney and Pixar.
I enjoyed the film, but then again, I been a big fan of Aardman Studios since the first Wallace & Grommet film.
I like this movie for so many reasons. The world building in the sewer is incredible and for every rewatch, I noticed a lot of new details to the world I never seem before. The comedy was very funny from the adult humor to comical slapstick. I like the characters aside from the slugs, the voice acting was very good from Hugh Jackman to Bill Nighy to Ian McKellan. Overall, it's a really great movie
You know Monsters vs. Aliens got it's own Series right?
“Didn’t do well”????? So does Chicken Run not exist? Cause it has insane acclaim 20 years later and made over $225 million box office
Flushed Away is CGI not claymation.
He DOES realize that this movie wasn't even claymation, right?
Ya isn’t it just normal animation?🙄
I know I joked the Oogway picking Po video could be summerised as "Tldr: Racism" but genuinely I think the reason Aardman's dreamworks movies go so forgotten is "TLDR: Racism" as its a british studio making movies for british people- Dreamworks wanted things for American audiances whereas Aardman wanted to continue doing their own stuff
My guess the reason of using cgi and that stop motion style is that Flushed Away was animated by both Dreamworks and Aardman unlike Chicken Run and Wallace and Gromit curse of the were rabbit were those films were animated by Aardman and was distributed by Dreamworks
I rewatched this film about a year ago and honestly-- ehh. Yea it's okay, but the movie just has this uncomfortable vibe imo and a huge factor is probably cause it's in a sewer. I also don't like the art or animation style or that much. It's okay and I'd rewatch it again, but it's just- irrelevant I guess. I don't know what I would discuss about it with other people and that makes it so different from f.e. spirit or el dorado
It being called Flushed away makes it sounds like there's a lot of toilet/dumb/gross humor.... but when I saw this movie years ago as a kid, I actually really loved it. I liked the main characters a lot.
kid me had a mad crush on Rita
Smarty pants miraculous ladybug and cat noir season 5 episode 1 comes out on the 13th I have no clue when the endlish version is coming out
I used to think it was called Swept Away, like that movie with Madonna.
Imma say it:
We NEED a Ninjago video. PLEAAASSEEE.
I grew up on movies like this and now I look back and think how were these considered good animation or stories.
I knew about monsters versus aliens I love it don’t is it
I didn't like this film much as a kid, but I've watched it at least once every few years since it came out. It's fun with some cringey toilet humor and a mob-boss-esque villain. I usually watch it on roadtrips on an old car headrest DVD player and the odd graphics mesh well with that lower quality screen.
I love us the way I watched it I loved it and it was before you even stopped about it years ago God years I still love it
i loved this movie as a kid.
I still love it now
Not really it’s mah to me
Flushed away wasn’t a stop motion film.
>___> you didnt watch the video for more then a few min did ya?
@@darkdest6664 literally as I wrote this comment in the end he ended up saying “but this film is CG, but it had a stop motion style” so my bad lol
Do you think it could be cause is CGI and looks really crappy
Flushed Away is mid and one of Aardman’s worst films, it’s not underRATed.
Flushed Away is mid and one of Aardman’s worst films, it’s not underRATed.