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'''''Shaun the Sheep Movie''''' is a 2015 British [[stop-motion]] [[Animation|animated]] [[adventure]] [[comedy film]] based on the ''[[Shaun the Sheep]]'' television series starring a character introduced in the 1995 [[Aardman Animations]]' [[Wallace and Gromit]] short ''[[A Close Shave]]''. The film follows Shaun and his flock into the big city to rescue their farmer, who was forced by Shaun's mischief to leave the farm.<ref name=BBCSetFor2015 />
'''''Shaun the Sheep Movie''''' is a 2015 British [[stop-motion]] [[Animation|animated]] [[adventure]] [[comedy film]] based on the ''[[Shaun the Sheep]]'' television series starring a character introduced in the 1995 [[Aardman Animations]]' [[Wallace and Gromit]] short ''[[A Close Shave]]''. The film follows Shaun and his flock into the big city to rescue their farmer, who was forced by Shaun's mischief to leave the farm.<ref name=BBCSetFor2015 />
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===Box office===
===Box office===
{{As of|2015|9|6}}, it has grossed $64.1 million in the UK and other parts of Europe, and $17.7 million in North America for a total of $81.8 million.<ref name=mojo /> The film cost less than $25 million to produce.<ref name=VarietySmashBenchmarks />
{{As of|2015|9|6}}, it has grossed $82.4 million in the UK and other parts of Europe, and $18.6 million in North America for a total of $100 million.<ref name=mojo /> The film cost less than $25 million to produce.<ref name=VarietySmashBenchmarks />


===Accolades===
===Accolades===

Revision as of 15:55, 15 September 2015

Shaun the Sheep Movie
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Written by
  • Richard Starzak
  • Mark Burton
Story byMark Burton
Produced by
  • Paul Kewley
  • Julie Lockhart
Starring
Cinematography
Edited bySim Evan-Jones[3]
Music byIlan Eshkeri
Production
company
Distributed byStudioCanal[4]
Release dates
  • 24 January 2015 (2015-01-24) (Sundance)[1]
  • 6 February 2015 (2015-02-06) (United Kingdom)[2]
Running time
85 minutes[5]
CountryUnited Kingdom[3]
LanguageEnglish
Budget< $25 million[6]
Box office$100 million[6] [7]

Shaun the Sheep Movie is a 2015 British stop-motion animated adventure comedy film based on the Shaun the Sheep television series starring a character introduced in the 1995 Aardman Animations' Wallace and Gromit short A Close Shave. The film follows Shaun and his flock into the big city to rescue their farmer, who was forced by Shaun's mischief to leave the farm.[4]

It was produced by Aardman Animations, and financed by StudioCanal in association with Anton Capital Entertainment,[8][6] with the former also distributing the film in the United Kingdom and several other European countries.[4] Richard Starzak and Mark Burton wrote and directed the film, with Ilan Eshkeri composing the music, while Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes, and Omid Djalili provided the voices. The film premiered on 24 January 2015, at the Sundance Film Festival,[1] and was theatrically released in the United Kingdom on 6 February 2015[2] and grossed $82 million worldwide.

Plot

Shaun, a mischievous sheep living with his flock at Mossy Bottom Farm, is bored with the routine of life on the farm, he concocts a plan to have a day away, by tricking the farmer into going back to sleep by counting the sheep repeatedly. However, the caravan in which they put the farmer to bed accidentally rolls away, taking him the entire way into the city. Bitzer, the farmer's dog, goes after him, ordering the sheep to stay on the farm until he returns.

The farmer receives a blow to the head and is hospitalized, where he is diagnosed with amnesia, and leaves the hospital. He wanders into a hair salon, where he cuts a celebrity's hair as if he was shearing a sheep. The celebrity loves it, which leads the farmer to be known as the mysterious hair stylist "Mr. X".

Meanwhile, the sheep find life impossible without the farmer, so Shaun sneaks on a bus to the city; the rest of the flock follow him on another bus. He manages to disguise them as people and they begin looking for the farmer, but Shaun is captured by Trumper, an over-zealous animal-control worker. Shaun is reunited with Bitzer in the animal lock-up, and with the help of a feral dog named Slip, they escape. They find the farmer, but he does not recognize Shaun, who is heartbroken by his owner's hostility.

Shaun learns about the farmer's memory loss, and he and the flock devise a plan, which involves putting the farmer and everyone else to sleep with the sheep-counting trick, returning him to the trailer on a fake horse (really the sheep in an elaborate disguise), and hooking the trailer up to a bus returning to Mossy Bottom. The plan is initially successful, but they are pursued by Trumper who becomes insane and intent on killing them outright.

At the farm, the group hide in a shed, which Trumper tries to push into a nearby rock quarry. Fortunately, the farmer wakes up, regains his memory, and through teamwork, Trumper is defeated. The farmer and the animals have a renewed appreciation for each other, and the next day, the farmer cancels the day's routine activities. Slip leaves, but is adopted by a bus driver who finds her on the road. The animal-control service is turned into animal-protection centre, and Trumper, no longer welcome there, finds work wearing a chicken suit to promote a restaurant.

Cast

Omid Djalili
Trumper
Omid Djalili voiced the antagonist Trumper.

Production

Mark Burton and Richard Starzak, directors and writers of the film, at the San Francisco Film Society

By January 2011, Aardman had started developing a feature film version of Shaun the Sheep, with a plan to be ready for a 2013/2014 release.[9] By April 2013, StudioCanal was set to finance and distribute the film, written and directed by Richard Starzak and Mark Burton.[4] The film would follow Shaun and his flock into the big city to rescue their farmer, who was forced by Shaun's mischief to leave the farm.[4] By 24 September 2013, the film had a release date of 20 March 2015,[10] which later was moved to 6 February 2015.[2] Principal photography and production began on 30 January 2014.[11]

Music

Soundtrack

Untitled

Ilan Eshkeri composed the music for the film.[12] The title song, "Feels Like Summer", was a collaboration between Tim Wheeler (of rock band Ash), composer Ilan Eshkeri and former-Kaiser Chief Nick Hodgson.[13] The soundtrack was released in the UK digitally on 1 June 2015 and on CD on 29 June 2015.[14]

All music is composed by Ilan Eshkeri, except where noted

No.TitlePerformerLength
1."Feels Like Summer"Tim Wheeler3:00
2."Humdrum Day"Ilan Eshkeri2:31
3."Shaun's Plan"Ilan Eshkeri2:01
4."You're Mine"Chad Hobson and Lucille Findlay3:40
5."Shaun's Farm House Party"Ilan Eshkeri1:18
6."Runaway Caravan"Ilan Eshkeri3:19
7."Anarchy on the Farm"Ilan Eshkeri1:17
8."Shaun's Mission"Ilan Eshkeri1:23
9."Doctor Bitzer"Ilan Eshkeri2:09
10."Trumper"Ilan Eshkeri1:33
11."Big City"Eliza Doolittle3:19
12."Le Chou Brulé"Sally Heath0:54
13."Gaol House Blues"Ilan Eshkeri1:12
14."Beauty Parade"Ilan Eshkeri1:50
15."Gaol Break"Ilan Eshkeri2:53
16."Finding the Farmer"Ilan Eshkeri2:41
17."Building the Horse"Ilan Eshkeri2:04
18."Feels Like Summer"The Baa Baa Shop Quintet1:44
19."Trumper on the Scent"Ilan Eshkeri1:01
20."Got to Sleep Counting Sheep"Ilan Eshkeri1:44
21."Panto Horse Chase"Ilan Eshkeri1:44
22."Caravan Ride Home"Ilan Eshkeri1:34
23."Showdown at the Quarry"Ilan Eshkeri4:38
24."Goodbye Slip"Ilan Eshkeri1:00
25."Feels Like Summer - (Instrumental)"Tim Wheeler1:50
26."Life's a Treat (Shaun the Sheep Theme) - (Rizzle Kicks mix)"Mark Thomas, Vic Reeves and Rizzle Kicks2:41
Total length:54:45

Release

A poster and a trailer were released on 3 April 2014.[15] The film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival as part of the Sundance Kid program on 24 January 2015.[1] The film was released in the United Kingdom on 6 February 2015,[2] and in the United States on 5 August 2015.[16]

The United States film posters spoofed some of the higher-budgeted films of that year, including Ant-Man (renamed Ant-Lamb), Minions (renamed Muttons), Spectre (renamed Shaun), Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (renamed Mutton: Impossible - Rogue Bacon), Fantastic Four (renamed Fantastic Floc), and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (renamed The Hungry Games: Eating Hay).[17]

Home media

Shaun the Sheep Movie was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK on 1 June 2015, by StudioCanal.[18]

Reception

Critical reception

The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 99%, based on 134 critics, with an average rating of 8.2/10. 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."[19] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 81 out of 100, based on 30 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[20] On CinemaScore, audience members gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.[21]

Lou Lumenick of the New York Post gave the film three out of four stars, saying, "Shaun the Sheep Movie may be less elaborate than Aardman masterpieces like Curse of the Were-Rabbit, but there's still much to enjoy. It's not often you see a cartoon that references both Night of the Hunter and Silence of the Lambs."[22] Inkoo Kang of The Wrap gave the film a positive review, saying, "Refreshingly for children (but especially for adults), there are no lessons to learn and no faults to admonish. Instead, it's an 84-minute, dialogue-free distillation of all the innocent fun we wish childhood could be."[23] Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a positive review, saying "Playful, absurd and endearingly inventive, this unstoppably amusing feature reminds us why Britain's Aardman Animations is a mainstay of the current cartooning golden age."[24] Peter Keough of The Boston Globe gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying "Like a great silent movie, it creates its pathos and comedy out of the concrete objects being animated, building elaborate gags involving everyday items transformed into Rube Goldberg devices."[25]

Colin Covert of the Minneapolis Star Tribune gave the film four out of four stars, saying "Sometimes the simplest movies are the best. Case in point: Shaun the Sheep, a dialogue-free, non-digitally designed, plain old stop-motion animated film that is hilarious beyond human measure."[26] Guy Lodge of Variety gave the film a positive review, saying, "Though realized on a more modest scale than other Aardman features, the film is still an absolute delight in terms of set and character design, with sophisticated blink-and-you’ll-miss-it detailing to counterbalance the franchise’s cruder visual trademarks."[27] Joe McGovern of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an A-, saying, "In a bold move that pays off, the movie jettisons dialogue altogether and tells its whole story through barn-animal noises, goofy sound effects, and sight gags so silly they’d make Benny Hill spin in sped-up ecstasy. The effect is contagiously cute."[28] Jordan Hoffman of the New York Daily News gave the film four out of five stars, saying "From the company that gave us Chicken Run and Wallace and Gromit, this adorable tale about a sheep who leads his comrades on a big-city adventure is some of the most pure visual storytelling you’re going to see this year."[29]

Box office

As of 6 September 2015, it has grossed $82.4 million in the UK and other parts of Europe, and $18.6 million in North America for a total of $100 million.[7] The film cost less than $25 million to produce.[6]

Accolades

Award Category Nominee Result
Nantucket Film Festival[30] Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature Mark Burton and Richard Starzak Nominated
Golden Space Needle Award[31] Best Film Mark Burton and Richard Starzak Nominated
Golden Goblet[32][33] Best Animation Mark Burton and Richard Starzak Nominated

Sequel

On 14 September 2015, StudioCanal announced it is working with Aardman on a sequel.[6]

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