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Shaun the Sheep Movie (marketed as Shaun the Sheep: The Movie) is a 2015 animated adventure comedy film written and directed by Richard Starzak and Mark Burton (in their directorial debuts). It is based on the British television series Shaun the Sheep, in turn a spin-off of the Wallace & Gromit film A Close Shave (1995).
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All is well at Mossy Bottom Farm, except for the fact that the animals will do anything to get out of work. So, Shaun the sheep and his scheming friends devise a plan to put their master to sleep. However, the ruse backfires when the poor farmer finds himself transported to the big city, having lost his memory. Now, it's up to Shaun, Timmy, Shirley...
The film opens with a montage, set to Tim Wheeler's "Feels Like Summer". The montage shows clips of a young, enthusiastic Farmer at the start of his career with a new flock of lambs. He bottle feeds the smallest, Shaun, and lets the little ones run and play with his new puppy Bitzer. The Farmer plays with them as well, and they all become one big h...
Justin Fletcher as Shaun, TimmyJohn Sparkes as Bitzer, The FarmerOmid Djalili as TrumperKate Harbour as Timmy's Mother, MerylThe review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 99%, based on 170 critics, with an average rating of 8.1/10. The site's consensus reads, "Warm, funny, and brilliantly animated, Shaun the Sheep is yet another stop-motion jewel in Aardman's family-friendly crown". On Metacritic, the film has a score of 81 out of 100, based on 30 crit...
Nominated for Academy Award, Best Animated Feature - Mark Burton and Richard StarzakNominated for Golden Globes, Best Animated Feature Film - Mark Burton and Richard StarzakNominated for BAFTA Awards, Best Animated Feature - Mark Burton and Richard StarzakWinner for Toronto Film Critics Association, Best Animated Feature - Mark Burton and Richard StarzakOn September 14th 2015, StudioCanal announced it was working with Aardman on a sequel. On February 2018, a teaser trailer premiered with Aardman's newest film Early Man, with the name of A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon. Richard Starzak confirmed that he would be back as the writer and director of the film, without Mark Burton. Paul Kewley conf...
The movie takes place between Series 4 and Series 5.This film was originally intended to be the series finale, but since CBBC wanted more episodes, the series continued.Unlike most episodes of the show, the movie only uses Sheep with previously established identities, with no "extra" members ever seen.One of the original ideas of the movie was the story of the episode of season 1 "Save the tree". But there wasn't much potential in the story for an 85 minute long movie, the crew and the director...For odd reasons, when the flock are disguised as humans Hazel's model was used twice resulting as one of The Twins replaced.When it shows the pictures of Shaun and Slip that are captured they didn't have red irises until it was shown again for the second time that they are shown in the scene.In the teaser poster the Farmer was confirmed to be missing, the picture was his current self instead of his young self unlike the film.It can't be possible how the flock managed to become 2D when the Trumper did not look away.Tired of working on the farm, the special sheep, Shaun, takes his flock and the farmer's dog, Bitzer, into his own "temporary escape plan" after an unexpected accident.
Dec 9, 2017 · Shaun the Sheep Movie. When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets more fun than he bargained for. A mix-up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead Shaun and...
- John Sparkes
- Tim Hands
- Justin Fletcher
- October 29, 2024
Aug 5, 2015 · Shaun the Sheep Movie: Directed by Mark Burton, Richard Starzak. With Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes, Omid Djalili, Richard Webber. When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for.
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- Animation, Adventure, Comedy
- Mark Burton, Richard Starzak
- 2015-08-05
The first, Shaun the Sheep Movie, premiered in February 2015 and features a mix up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill, leading Shaun and the Flock to the Big City where they meet a colourful cast of characters, including a nefarious animal containment officer called Trumper.
Aug 5, 2015 · Based on a long-running TV series consisting of shorts that take place on a quaintly cozy patch of northern English countryside known as Mossy Bottom Farm, this brisk 85-minute serving of visually piquant capers owes as much to Warner Bros.’ Sam the Sheepdog and Ralph the Wolf as it does to Buster Keaton, Rube Goldberg, “ Babe: Pig in the City ”...
