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      <title>Film:Flushed Away</title>
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<strong>Title:</strong> Flushed Away<br/>
<strong>Year:</strong> 2006<br/>
<strong>Director:</strong> David Bowers, Sam Fell, Henry Anderson<br/>
<strong>Plot:</strong> A previously pampered society mouse must fight his way back to the comforts of Kensington after he is sent spiraling into an underground world filled with scavenger rats and villainous toads in a fun-filled family adventure produced by DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Features and featuring the voices of <a href="/players/P___269258/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Hugh Jackman</a>, <a href="/players/P___198332/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Kate Winslet</a>, <a href="/players/P____47684/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Ian McKellen</a>, and <a href="/players/P____59644/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Jean Reno</a>. Roddy (Jackman) was living the high life when he first met Sid the sewer rat (Shane Richie), but that's all about to change when Sid decides to send the hapless mouse down the pipes and stealthily take his place in the lap of luxury. Though the bustling sewer city of Ratropolis isn't without its fair share of kind citizens, it is certainly no place for a pampered mouse with a taste for life's finer things. Upon making the acquaintance of scavenger rat Rita (Winslet), Roddy is certain that the pair can navigate their way back to the surface in Rita's trusty boat, the <i>Jammy Dodger</i>, but Rita's help doesn't come cheap, and the nefarious Toad (McKellen) is determined to rid Ratropolis of all things rodent. When Toad's hapless hench-rats Spike (<a href="/players/P___216153/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Andy Serkis</a>) and Whitey (<a href="/players/P____52695/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Bill Nighy</a>) fail to achieve acceptable results, the green meanie is forced to call in the cavalry in the form of legendary French mercenary Le Frog (Reno) to get the job done. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide<br/>
<strong>Times Tagged:</strong> 17<br/>
<strong>Number of Lists:</strong> 11<br/>
<strong>Number of blog posts:</strong> 4<br/>
<strong>SpoutRating:</strong> 2<br/>
</td></tr></table>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:17:06 GMT</pubDate><spout:Title>Flushed Away</spout:Title><spout:Year>2006</spout:Year><spout:Director>David Bowers, Sam Fell, Henry Anderson</spout:Director><spout:Plot>A previously pampered society mouse must fight his way back to the comforts of Kensington after he is sent spiraling into an underground world filled with scavenger rats and villainous toads in a fun-filled family adventure produced by DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Features and featuring the voices of &lt;a href="/players/P___269258/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Hugh Jackman&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/players/P___198332/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Kate Winslet&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/players/P____47684/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Ian McKellen&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="/players/P____59644/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Jean Reno&lt;/a&gt;. Roddy (Jackman) was living the high life when he first met Sid the sewer rat (Shane Richie), but that's all about to change when Sid decides to send the hapless mouse down the pipes and stealthily take his place in the lap of luxury. Though the bustling sewer city of Ratropolis isn't without its fair share of kind citizens, it is certainly no place for a pampered mouse with a taste for life's finer things. Upon making the acquaintance of scavenger rat Rita (Winslet), Roddy is certain that the pair can navigate their way back to the surface in Rita's trusty boat, the &lt;i&gt;Jammy Dodger&lt;/i&gt;, but Rita's help doesn't come cheap, and the nefarious Toad (McKellen) is determined to rid Ratropolis of all things rodent. When Toad's hapless hench-rats Spike (&lt;a href="/players/P___216153/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Andy Serkis&lt;/a&gt;) and Whitey (&lt;a href="/players/P____52695/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Bill Nighy&lt;/a&gt;) fail to achieve acceptable results, the green meanie is forced to call in the cavalry in the form of legendary French mercenary Le Frog (Reno) to get the job done. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide</spout:Plot><spout:TimesTagged>17</spout:TimesTagged><spout:taglevel>Tag Target (&gt;10)</spout:taglevel><spout:Numberoflists>11</spout:Numberoflists><spout:NumberOfBlogPosts>4</spout:NumberOfBlogPosts><spout:SpoutRating>2</spout:SpoutRating><spout:FilmCoverURL>http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/u44305oy7i6.jpg</spout:FilmCoverURL><spout:SpoutFilmDetailURL>http://www.spout.com/films/Flushed_Away/257265/default.aspx</spout:SpoutFilmDetailURL><spout:type>Film</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Flushed Away (2006)</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/jj79/archive/2008/6/6/30640.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/u44305oy7i6.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/16043/default.aspx'>JJ79</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/blogs/jj79/default.aspx'>JJ79 Blog</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 6/6/2008 1:24:24 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Released: November 3, 2006Directors: David Bowers, Sam Fell*****Armed with an all-star voice cast, the stop-motion studio behind the Wallace and Gromit adventures and the production studio which brought Shrek to life, Flushed Away was supposed to be a big hit, a film for all ages to laugh at, enjoy and share together.  Someone obviously missed that memo in fall,2006, as the story of a well-to-do rat who gets mixed up in a seedy underworld flopped-relatively speaking-at the box office.In a (relative) spin on The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse tale, Roddy (Hugh Jackman) is literally flushed down the toilet when interloper Spike (Andy Serkis) finds his way to Roddy's Kensington home.  Once in the sewers and tunnels under London, Roddy meets up with the vile criminal lord The Toad (Ian McKellen), beautiful Rita (Kate Winslet) and a host of other characters in the search for a ruby from the Queen's crown.  A ruby which will put Rita's family on easy street...though, in the end, the story doesn't turn out to be about the jewel at all.I never thought I'd say this, but if there is one problem in the film, it is the humor.  No, it's not stupid, toilet bowl humor; rather, the opposite, most of the time.  It's too sophisticated, elegant, highbrow for some of the intended audience.  Most of the laughs are derived from other sources.  For instance, check out the opening ten minutes or so.  Roddy contemplates putting on a yellow and blue costume, quite obviously meant as a tip of the hate to the Wolverine character in X-Men since Jackman played the mutant in the movies.  And take another instance later in the film.  Hitting some rapids in the sewer, Roddy and Rita play a Humphrey Bogart/Katharine Hepburn duo trying to navigate their boat to the correct tributary.  Other films by DreamWorks make an appearance early, yet all these little touches will go over the heads of the kids.  All they want to see-and quite rightly so-is the action.  Of which, granted, there is much...both high brow and low-er brow.As an animated film, Flushed Away does what it's supposed to do.  And that is make us laugh.  The entirety of the film looks very polished and clean, with the story always leading the action.  It's not terribly original, yet feels refreshing and vivid.  How many times, really, have we seen the supposed object of everyone's desire turn out to be a fake and the real quest to be for something totally different?  The writers, of which their are twelve credited in the film, keep the plot moving, never meandering.  Sure, it tugs at the heartstrings just a bit when the plot is allowed a moment of exposition though there's never the blunt sense of trying to make us empathetic for the characters, only to move the story along.  And that isn't a weakness at all.  Rather, it's quite the opposite.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:24:24 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>JJ79</spout:postby><spout:postto>JJ79 Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>6/6/2008 1:24:24 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Released: November 3, 2006Directors: David Bowers, Sam Fell*****Armed with an all-star voice cast, the stop-motion studio behind the Wallace and Gromit adventures and the production studio which brought Shrek to life, Flushed Away was supposed to be a big hit, a film for all ages to laugh at, enjoy and share together.  Someone obviously missed that memo in fall,2006, as the story of a well-to-do rat who gets mixed up in a seedy underworld flopped-relatively speaking-at the box office.In a (relative) spin on The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse tale, Roddy (Hugh Jackman) is literally flushed down the toilet when interloper Spike (Andy Serkis) finds his way to Roddy's Kensington home.  Once in the sewers and tunnels under London, Roddy meets up with the vile criminal lord The Toad (Ian McKellen), beautiful Rita (Kate Winslet) and a host of other characters in the search for a ruby from the Queen's crown.  A ruby which will put Rita's family on easy street...though, in the end, the story doesn't turn out to be about the jewel at all.I never thought I'd say this, but if there is one problem in the film, it is the humor.  No, it's not stupid, toilet bowl humor; rather, the opposite, most of the time.  It's too sophisticated, elegant, highbrow for some of the intended audience.  Most of the laughs are derived from other sources.  For instance, check out the opening ten minutes or so.  Roddy contemplates putting on a yellow and blue costume, quite obviously meant as a tip of the hate to the Wolverine character in X-Men since Jackman played the mutant in the movies.  And take another instance later in the film.  Hitting some rapids in the sewer, Roddy and Rita play a Humphrey Bogart/Katharine Hepburn duo trying to navigate their boat to the correct tributary.  Other films by DreamWorks make an appearance early, yet all these little touches will go over the heads of the kids.  All they want to see-and quite rightly so-is the action.  Of which, granted, there is much...both high brow and low-er brow.As an animated film, Flushed Away does what it's supposed to do.  And that is make us laugh.  The entirety of the film looks very polished and clean, with the story always leading the action.  It's not terribly original, yet feels refreshing and vivid.  How many times, really, have we seen the supposed object of everyone's desire turn out to be a fake and the real quest to be for something totally different?  The writers, of which their are twelve credited in the film, keep the plot moving, never meandering.  Sure, it tugs at the heartstrings just a bit when the plot is allowed a moment of exposition though there's never the blunt sense of trying to make us empathetic for the characters, only to move the story along.  And that isn't a weakness at all.  Rather, it's quite the opposite.</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Stratham's 'Bank' shot</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/usesoap/archive/2008/3/10/26070.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/u44305oy7i6.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/113227/default.aspx'>usesoap</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 3/10/2008 9:04:01 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Jason Statham is not a name that exactly inspires confidence in moveigoers.He was director Guy Ritchie&rsquo;s lapdog for &ldquo;Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels&rdquo; and &ldquo;Snatch,&rdquo; before boxing himself in to roles that played up his martial-arts prowess, squelching any dramatic potential that nuanced his performances.Starring in a string of empty-calorie cinematic Twinkies (&ldquo;The Transporter&rdquo; films, &ldquo;Chaos,&rdquo; &ldquo;War&rdquo; and &ldquo;Crank&rdquo; were all designed solely to accentuate his pugnacious proclivities) only kept him out of the direct-to-video purgatory that befell fellow fighters Steven Segal and Jean-Claude Van Damme.He&rsquo;s often dismissed as the British version of Bruce Willis (balding, gruff on-screen demeanor, characters of few words and a cupboard filled with cans of whoop-ass), but he has the potential to bring on more than brawn to his roles.His followers may be small, but they are loyal, and he has staked his claim on the late-winter box office, when his films are typically released to mild success.The generically titled &ldquo;The Bank Job,&rdquo; (what, was &ldquo;Robbery in London&rdquo; already taken?) is perhaps the most un-Statham film to star Statham, but it is also the most entertaining film on his resume in quite some time, and provides him the chance to trade deadly dropkicks for dramatic dialogue.Even though the title claims it was &ldquo;Based on Actual Events,&rdquo; you can easily weed out the facts from the filmic flourishes. Yes, it was the 70s; yes there was a robbery; and yes, an amateur ham radio operator overheard the whole break-in and phoned police. The rest of the tale seems wholly constructed from the mind of screenwriters Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, two Brits responsible for the wry kiddie flick &ldquo;Flushed Away.&rdquo;Here, the two toss in storylines ranging from Princess Margaret porn pictures to radical black activists to brothel-frequenting Parliament members. And while most of these subplots seem to be creative liberties thrown in to sex up a mundane tale of rookie robbers, they manage to keep all the threads flowing without getting knotted up in confusion.Statham plays Terry Leather (nope, not a typo), a two-bit car salesman whose being pinched by some rather unsavory characters collecting on some old debts. Terry is contacted by former flame Martine Love (played by Saffron Burrows) who &ldquo;stumbled&rdquo; upon a score that would alleviate Terry of his financial woes and perhaps get something out of it herself.Terry hustles his local barroom brethren for the job and within days they are tunneling their way under the streets to a local bank vault.&ldquo;The Bank Job&rdquo; may come across as a grittier, scrappier, across-the-pond cousin to the &ldquo;Ocean&rsquo;s&rdquo; series, but what it lacks in expensive duds and mega-watt star-power, it makes up for with its hungry heart.Director Roger Donaldson has been somewhat of a journeyman behind the camera, responsible for such stillborn atrocities as the Tom-Cruise-bartending-epic &ldquo;Cocktail&rdquo; and the I-was-boinked-by-an-alien fiasco &ldquo;Species,&rdquo; but he&rsquo;s also helmed such superior potboilers as &ldquo;No Way Out&rdquo; and nail-gnawing &ldquo;Thirteen Days.&rdquo;He offers no particular flair here, leaving that to the intricate-but-immanently watchable story of Terry and his mates entering what appears to be a financial honeycomb, but instead stirring up a hornets&rsquo; nest of trouble.Given the lack of big names, vanilla title and low-key release date, &ldquo;The Bank Job&rdquo; will most likely vanish to obscurity from the theaters rather quickly. But it is a film that merits cinematic life support from those who bemoan the lack of breezy, twisty thrillers that used to populate the theaters decades ago.&ldquo;The Bank Job&rdquo; also provides a broader swath of American audiences the chance to witness the magnetism of Statham, who is poised to wrestle free of the trappings of his bare-knuckle cinematic straightjacket and muscle his way into roles that require more kicks from his dialogue than his nimble feet.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:04:01 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>usesoap</spout:postby><spout:postto>usesoap Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>3/10/2008 9:04:01 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Jason Statham is not a name that exactly inspires confidence in moveigoers.He was director Guy Ritchie&amp;rsquo;s lapdog for &amp;ldquo;Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;Snatch,&amp;rdquo; before boxing himself in to roles that played up his martial-arts prowess, squelching any dramatic potential that nuanced his performances.Starring in a string of empty-calorie cinematic Twinkies (&amp;ldquo;The Transporter&amp;rdquo; films, &amp;ldquo;Chaos,&amp;rdquo; &amp;ldquo;War&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;Crank&amp;rdquo; were all designed solely to accentuate his pugnacious proclivities) only kept him out of the direct-to-video purgatory that befell fellow fighters Steven Segal and Jean-Claude Van Damme.He&amp;rsquo;s often dismissed as the British version of Bruce Willis (balding, gruff on-screen demeanor, characters of few words and a cupboard filled with cans of whoop-ass), but he has the potential to bring on more than brawn to his roles.His followers may be small, but they are loyal, and he has staked his claim on the late-winter box office, when his films are typically released to mild success.The generically titled &amp;ldquo;The Bank Job,&amp;rdquo; (what, was &amp;ldquo;Robbery in London&amp;rdquo; already taken?) is perhaps the most un-Statham film to star Statham, but it is also the most entertaining film on his resume in quite some time, and provides him the chance to trade deadly dropkicks for dramatic dialogue.Even though the title claims it was &amp;ldquo;Based on Actual Events,&amp;rdquo; you can easily weed out the facts from the filmic flourishes. Yes, it was the 70s; yes there was a robbery; and yes, an amateur ham radio operator overheard the whole break-in and phoned police. The rest of the tale seems wholly constructed from the mind of screenwriters Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, two Brits responsible for the wry kiddie flick &amp;ldquo;Flushed Away.&amp;rdquo;Here, the two toss in storylines ranging from Princess Margaret porn pictures to radical black activists to brothel-frequenting Parliament members. And while most of these subplots seem to be creative liberties thrown in to sex up a mundane tale of rookie robbers, they manage to keep all the threads flowing without getting knotted up in confusion.Statham plays Terry Leather (nope, not a typo), a two-bit car salesman whose being pinched by some rather unsavory characters collecting on some old debts. Terry is contacted by former flame Martine Love (played by Saffron Burrows) who &amp;ldquo;stumbled&amp;rdquo; upon a score that would alleviate Terry of his financial woes and perhaps get something out of it herself.Terry hustles his local barroom brethren for the job and within days they are tunneling their way under the streets to a local bank vault.&amp;ldquo;The Bank Job&amp;rdquo; may come across as a grittier, scrappier, across-the-pond cousin to the &amp;ldquo;Ocean&amp;rsquo;s&amp;rdquo; series, but what it lacks in expensive duds and mega-watt star-power, it makes up for with its hungry heart.Director Roger Donaldson has been somewhat of a journeyman behind the camera, responsible for such stillborn atrocities as the Tom-Cruise-bartending-epic &amp;ldquo;Cocktail&amp;rdquo; and the I-was-boinked-by-an-alien fiasco &amp;ldquo;Species,&amp;rdquo; but he&amp;rsquo;s also helmed such superior potboilers as &amp;ldquo;No Way Out&amp;rdquo; and nail-gnawing &amp;ldquo;Thirteen Days.&amp;rdquo;He offers no particular flair here, leaving that to the intricate-but-immanently watchable story of Terry and his mates entering what appears to be a financial honeycomb, but instead stirring up a hornets&amp;rsquo; nest of trouble.Given the lack of big names, vanilla title and low-key release date, &amp;ldquo;The Bank Job&amp;rdquo; will most likely vanish to obscurity from the theaters rather quickly. But it is a film that merits cinematic life support from those who bemoan the lack of breezy, twisty thrillers that used to populate the theaters decades ago.&amp;ldquo;The Bank Job&amp;rdquo; also provides a broader swath of American audiences the chance to witness the magnetism of Statham, who is poised to wrestle free of the trappings of his bare-knuckle cinematic straightjacket and muscle his way into roles that require more kicks from his dialogue than his nimble feet.</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: DreamWorks is the New Disney</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/cinemaleviathan/archive/2007/12/13/22800.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/u44305oy7i6.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/109479/default.aspx'>CinemaLeviathan</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/blogs/cinemaleviathan/default.aspx'>CinemaLeviathan Blog</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 12/13/2007 8:54:34 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong>   As Roddy the mouse sleeps peacefully in his owner&rsquo;s mansion, a sudden explosion of water spits up through the drains revealing Sid, a sewer rat who reflects the average male in today&rsquo;s world.  Sid takes over the joint, turns the television to the World Cup.  Roddy has enough, and attempts to outsmart Sid by insisting he gets into the swirling &lsquo;Jacuzzi&rsquo; before the game. Sid suddenly shoves Roddy into the toilet and Roddy is Flushed Away to the underground sewers.  As Roddy swirls down the drains toward the sewer, he hits corner after corner in an old-fashioned kind of comic humor, catches an orange fish who asks,  &ldquo;Have you seen my dad?&rdquo; and finally falls into a river of sewer water where he encounters sewer slugs.  Originally the slugs only had the bit part during Roddy&rsquo;s intro to the sewer but because of their popularity and laugh-out-loud visual and audible humor, the slugs appear again and again through out the movie.   The movie is outrageously exciting for the kids and hilariously relevant to today&rsquo;s world for the adults. The adventure follows two little mice, Rita and Roddy, voiced by Hugh Jackman and Kate Winslet, as they make a &lsquo;spit-n-handshake&rsquo; deal to take on the impossible and head back &ldquo;up top&rdquo; to the surface form the sewers in order to get back to Roddy&rsquo;s home where he then will set Rita on her way with a real ruby &ndash; due to the fact that he broke her treasured glass ruby.  The characters&rsquo; goals a clear, motivated, and classically short-ended producing an emotional climactic ending as they realize their goals didn&rsquo;t involve each other. The emotion is light, the humor is layered, and the creative sewer world is unlike anything seen before.  The conflict is high, smart, yet light enough for kids; Toad wants to steal a power cable from Rita, whom uses it as a belt, in order to power the giant door to the sewer line to open during the half time of the World Cup. Why?  Because like Sid, everyone always waits to go to the bathroom until half-time, which means if the doors are open, the city of rodents will be destroyed and Toad, along with his army of infant tadpoles, will rule the under world.  It&rsquo;s a great twist on flash floods from a writer&rsquo;s point of view because it&rsquo;s not just a flood of water, it&rsquo;s a flood of &hellip; anyway &ndash; the stakes are high for our two protagonists and the comic relief is around every corner &ndash; in the form of slugs.  The movie personifies not only the animals superbly but also the situations and characters involved resulting in a powerful message that wealth and loneliness simply don&rsquo;t compare to love and family. Whether it is classic movie homage or slap-tick humor this movie has it all.  Overall, this movie is a fantastic ride for kids and adults and surprises audiences over and over with new jokes, old jokes, and everything in between.: )   <br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:54:34 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>CinemaLeviathan</spout:postby><spout:postto>CinemaLeviathan Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>12/13/2007 8:54:34 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>  As Roddy the mouse sleeps peacefully in his owner&amp;rsquo;s mansion, a sudden explosion of water spits up through the drains revealing Sid, a sewer rat who reflects the average male in today&amp;rsquo;s world.  Sid takes over the joint, turns the television to the World Cup.  Roddy has enough, and attempts to outsmart Sid by insisting he gets into the swirling &amp;lsquo;Jacuzzi&amp;rsquo; before the game. Sid suddenly shoves Roddy into the toilet and Roddy is Flushed Away to the underground sewers.  As Roddy swirls down the drains toward the sewer, he hits corner after corner in an old-fashioned kind of comic humor, catches an orange fish who asks,  &amp;ldquo;Have you seen my dad?&amp;rdquo; and finally falls into a river of sewer water where he encounters sewer slugs.  Originally the slugs only had the bit part during Roddy&amp;rsquo;s intro to the sewer but because of their popularity and laugh-out-loud visual and audible humor, the slugs appear again and again through out the movie.   The movie is outrageously exciting for the kids and hilariously relevant to today&amp;rsquo;s world for the adults. The adventure follows two little mice, Rita and Roddy, voiced by Hugh Jackman and Kate Winslet, as they make a &amp;lsquo;spit-n-handshake&amp;rsquo; deal to take on the impossible and head back &amp;ldquo;up top&amp;rdquo; to the surface form the sewers in order to get back to Roddy&amp;rsquo;s home where he then will set Rita on her way with a real ruby &amp;ndash; due to the fact that he broke her treasured glass ruby.  The characters&amp;rsquo; goals a clear, motivated, and classically short-ended producing an emotional climactic ending as they realize their goals didn&amp;rsquo;t involve each other. The emotion is light, the humor is layered, and the creative sewer world is unlike anything seen before.  The conflict is high, smart, yet light enough for kids; Toad wants to steal a power cable from Rita, whom uses it as a belt, in order to power the giant door to the sewer line to open during the half time of the World Cup. Why?  Because like Sid, everyone always waits to go to the bathroom until half-time, which means if the doors are open, the city of rodents will be destroyed and Toad, along with his army of infant tadpoles, will rule the under world.  It&amp;rsquo;s a great twist on flash floods from a writer&amp;rsquo;s point of view because it&amp;rsquo;s not just a flood of water, it&amp;rsquo;s a flood of &amp;hellip; anyway &amp;ndash; the stakes are high for our two protagonists and the comic relief is around every corner &amp;ndash; in the form of slugs.  The movie personifies not only the animals superbly but also the situations and characters involved resulting in a powerful message that wealth and loneliness simply don&amp;rsquo;t compare to love and family. Whether it is classic movie homage or slap-tick humor this movie has it all.  Overall, this movie is a fantastic ride for kids and adults and surprises audiences over and over with new jokes, old jokes, and everything in between.: )   </spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Sort of a much lighter &amp;quot;Neverwhere&amp;quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/qflw/archive/2007/3/31/6600.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/u44305oy7i6.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/9310/default.aspx'>QFLW</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 3/31/2007 9:23:12 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Wasn&#39;t exceptionally keen on seeing this; since it&#39;s set in a sewer, was expecting a lot of gross humor.  But I&#39;ve a soft spot for Hugh Jackman so gave it a chance.  Much better than expected; rather cute, if not necessarily laugh-out-loud funny; good cast of voices.  I do get tired of the scenario in which nice-guy heros are made out to be nerds whom nearly everyone makes unkind fun of or dismisses as useless.  But it wasn&#39;t too bad here.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 01:23:12 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>QFLW</spout:postby><spout:postto>QFLW Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>3/31/2007 9:23:12 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Wasn&amp;#39;t exceptionally keen on seeing this; since it&amp;#39;s set in a sewer, was expecting a lot of gross humor.  But I&amp;#39;ve a soft spot for Hugh Jackman so gave it a chance.  Much better than expected; rather cute, if not necessarily laugh-out-loud funny; good cast of voices.  I do get tired of the scenario in which nice-guy heros are made out to be nerds whom nearly everyone makes unkind fun of or dismisses as useless.  But it wasn&amp;#39;t too bad here.</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:british</title>
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      <title>Spout Tag:hero</title>
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      <title>Spout Tag:animated</title>
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      <title>Spout Tag:boat</title>
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<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 54</br><br/>
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      <title>Spout Tag:city</title>
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      <title>Spout Tag:rats</title>
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      <title>Spout Tag:toilet</title>
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      <title>Spout Tag:familyvsmoney</title>
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      <title>Spout Tag:French-frogs</title>
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