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''Shaun the Sheep Movie'' was nominated at the [[88th Academy Awards]] for the [[Academy Award for Best Animated Feature]]. It was also nominated in The [[73rd Golden Globe Awards]], [[BAFTA Awards]] and won in the [[Toronto Film Critics Awards]] for [[Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film|Best Animated Film]]. It also earned five nominations at The [[Annie Awards]] including Best Animated Feature.
''Shaun the Sheep Movie'' was nominated at the [[88th Academy Awards]] for the [[Academy Award for Best Animated Feature]]. It was also nominated in The [[73rd Golden Globe Awards]], [[BAFTA Awards]] and won in the [[Toronto Film Critics Awards]] for [[Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film|Best Animated Film]]. It also earned five nominations at The [[Annie Awards]] including Best Animated Feature.

==Plot==
Shaun, a mischievous sheep living with his flock at Mossy Bottom Farm, is bored with the routine of life on the farm. One day, he concocts a plan to have a day off, by tricking the farmer into going back to sleep by counting his sheep repeatedly. However, the [[Travel trailer|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 hospitalised, where he is diagnosed with [[amnesia]], and leaves the hospital. He wanders into a hair salon, where he cuts a celebrity's hair (initially out of spite) 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"; he becomes very popular.

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 homeless dog named Slip, they manage to escape while imprisoning Trumper. They find the farmer, but he does not recognise Shaun, who is heartbroken.

Feeling unwanted, Shaun, Bitzer, and the flock make a makeshift home in an alley; it is there that they learn about the farmer's memory loss. They 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 [[pantomime horse]] (really the flock of 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 (having escaped the lock-up) who is now intent on killing them outright.

At the farm, the group hide in a shed, which Trumper tries to push into a nearby rock quarry. 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 for an official day off. 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.

In a mid-credits scene, the farmer witnesses the events caused by his oblivious self and the animals on the news, as the animals watch in shock.


==Cast==
==Cast==

Revision as of 00:27, 27 October 2016

Shaun the Sheep
File:Shaun the Sheep.PNG
GenreComedy
Clay animation
Created byRichard Starzak
Based onCharacters
by Nick Park
Developed byRichard Starzak
Alison Snowden
David Fine
Directed byRichard Starzak
Christopher Sadler
Voices ofJustin Fletcher
John Sparkes
Theme music composerMark Thomas
Opening theme"Life's a Treat"
Ending theme"Life's a Treat (Instrumental Version)"
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Germany[1]
Original languageEnglish
No. of series5
No. of episodes150
36 (shorts)
1 (special) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producersFor Aardman Animations:
Miles Bullough
David Sproxton
Peter Lord
Nick Park
For BBC:
Michael Carrington
ProducersJulie Lockhart (series 1)
Gareth Owen (series 2)
John Woolley (series 3 and 4)
Running time7 minutes
Production companiesAardman Animations
BBC
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Original release
NetworkCBBC
Release5 March 2007 (2007-03-05) –
present
Related
Timmy Time

Shaun the Sheep is a British stop-motion animated television series, a spin-off of the Wallace and Gromit franchise. The series stars Shaun, a sheep previously featured in the 1995 short film A Close Shave and in the Shopper 13 short film from the 2002 Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions series, and his madcap adventures around a small farm as the leader of his flock. Having first aired in the UK on CBBC in March 2007 and broadcast in 180 countries globally, the series consists of 150 seven-minute episodes. The fifth season contains 20 episodes and has been aired in the Netherlands from December 1, 2015 until January 1, 2016.[2][3][4]

The series inspired its own spin-off, Timmy Time, which follows the adventures of Shaun's small cousin and is aimed at younger viewers. A feature-length film, titled Shaun the Sheep Movie, was released theatrically in 2015. A 30-minute film, titled Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas, was aired as a 2015 Christmas TV special. Series 5 is due to begin airing in the UK on Monday 5th September 2016.

Plot

Shaun, an unusually bright and clever sheep, lives with his flock at Mossy Bottom Farm, a traditional small northern English farm. In each episode, their latest attempt to add excitement to their dull mundane life as livestock somehow snowballs into a fantastic sitcom-style escapade, most often with the help of their fascination with human doings and devices. This usually brings them into conflict—and often into partnership—with the farm sheepdog Bitzer, while they all are simultaneously trying to avoid discovery by the Farmer.

Production

The show was produced by Aardman Animations, and commissioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR),[5] a constituent member of the consortium of German public-broadcasting institutions ARD. It has aired on CBBC in the UK from 2007 onward.

Each seven-minute episode is entirely shot in Aardman's distinctive stop-motion animation style. The comedic tone is a combination of slapstick and classic silent comedy, similar to that used in the Wallace & Gromit shorts. In this series, there is not much spoken dialogue at all, even from the human characters; simple grunts, bleats, pointing, sighs, mutterings, words, and similar wordless inflections are all used to indicate each character's moods and motives. There are also no readable words in any episode, although "Bitzer" can be seen on a dog bowl, and—in series four--"Mossy Bottom Farm" on a gate, in the original English-language title sequence. All other signage, such as on a pizza box or a bus stop, is replaced by an illegible scrawl and a picture.

Shaun the Sheep's first appearance was in Wallace & Gromit's third short feature, the Academy Award winning A Close Shave, as the youngest member of a flock of sheep Wallace and Gromit work to save from being turned into dog food. He was named Shaun as a pun on the word "shorn" after he was accidentally subjected to Wallace's automated sheep shearing machine. This early version of Shaun shows a hint of his characteristic human-like bravado—among other things, wearing a sweater knitted from his own shorn wool—and he proves to be a major help in saving the day.

At the end of this short, Shaun and the entire flock are seen living with the duo; Shaun later made a brief cameo appearance in the "Shopper 13" episode of Wallace & Gromit's "Cracking Contraptions" web series. No official explanation has been given for the flock's later transfer to the farm.

Although the original series is silent aside from sound effects, a Hindi-dubbed version seen on Nickelodeon India was redone with scripts and dialogue.[6]

Characters

Series director Richard Goleszowski at Canterbury's Anifest 2008 with models of a generic sheep, Bitzer, Timmy, and Shaun.

Main characters

  • Shaun is the protagonist of the series and, despite being the skinniest of them all, the leader of the flock. He is a clever, confident sheep, prone to mischief but equally adept at getting himself and/or his friends out of it. As there is no dialogue, like all the sheep he communicates entirely through bleating, and often explains his ideas to the flock by drawing diagrams on a blackboard. He has a good friendship with Bitzer, though this does not stop him from playing pranks on him at times.
  • Bitzer is the farmer's loyal, long-suffering sheepdog, dressed for work in a blue knit cap, black collar, knitted wristlet and large official-looking wrist-watch, carrying a clipboard and walking upright or on all fours as needed. He communicates, canine-fashion, via barks, growls, and the occasional whimper. He also gives instructions to the flock by blowing a whistle. Despite a tendency to be caught out listening to music, he takes his job very seriously, to the point of occasionally letting his power go to his head. He is however a generally good friend to Shaun and does his best to keep the whole flock out of trouble.
  • Shirley is the largest member of the flock. A gentle giant, she is usually seen placidly eating, though she's intimidating enough to have defended Shaun from Pidsley the cat. She's so big that large objects routinely disappear into (or are deliberately hidden in) her fleece, and she quite often gets stuck herself, needing the other sheep to push, pull or even sling-shot her out of trouble. However, her size can also come in very handy when what's needed is a battering ram or similarly immovable object.
  • Timmy, Shaun's cousin, is the flock's only lamb, and thus often the innocent centre of the chaos. He appears to be a toddler in this series, and is often seen sucking a dummy. The spinoff series Timmy Time chronicles his later adventures in preschool.
  • Timmy's Mother, Shaun's aunt, wears curlers in her topknot and is a bit careless about maternal duties, even using Timmy once as a makeshift paint brush. But when her offspring goes astray, she is inconsolable until he is safely back in her care.
  • Nuts, is quite an eccentric, but useful sheep and usually like the rest of the flock, accompanies and helps Shaun. But the thing that makes him stand out from the flock is that he has two different shaped eyes and a different shaped nose.
  • Hazel, Hazel’s nerves often get the better of her – she’s a timid little sheep who jumps at the slightest thing and can frequently be heard bleating nervously. When Farmer’s caravan rolls off towards the city, Hazel can barely contain her fear – this is the stuff of nightmares! But when she finds herself carried along with the rest of the Flock in hot pursuit of a runaway caravan, Hazel discovers she’s much braver than she ever imagined, and that while life in the city might be scary, it’s good to face your fears every now and again.
  • The Flock, like typical sheep, tend to follow Shaun and one another, are obedient to orders and generally form one big happy if sometimes fractious family group. Unlike Shaun, however, they are not particularly bright, which becomes a problem when combined with their ongoing fascination with the human world. It's usually Shaun and Bitzer who sort out the resulting mess.
  • The Farmer is a bespectacled, balding man who runs the farm with Bitzer at his side and acts as the flock's primary if unwitting nemesis. His livestock's main concern is to ensure he remains completely oblivious to their unusual sentience, a task made easier by his conventional, unobservant nature but complicated by his enthusiasm for picking up new hobbies. He can be heard frequently making wordless noises or muttering under his breath just audibly enough for the viewer to pick up on his meaning. His disastrous attempts at dating are a running joke of the series. In the 2015 movie, he is referred to as Mr. X by those who don't know his identity.
  • The Naughty Pigs, whose pen is adjacent to the sheepfield, are bullies to Shaun and his flock, always trying to antagonize them and get them into trouble. They are, however, scared of Bitzer (though they still take the chance to bully him whenever possible), and they get told off by the Farmer in "Pig Trouble".
  • Pidsley is the Farmer's yellow cat, a minor character (without fur) in series 1 and the main antagonist of series 2. He desires to be the sole recipient of the Farmer's attention, and thus is jealous of Bitzer. He also dislikes the sheep, thinking of them as stupid and beneath him.

Other characters

  • Mower Mouth the Goat, who first appears in the episode of the same name, is an unstoppable eating machine. While not an unfriendly character, all her considerable energy is focused on her next meal. She thus routinely causes trouble for Shaun and the flock, as also seen in "Shaun the Farmer" and "Saturday Night Shaun".
  • The Bull is belligerent, powerful, and easily provoked by Shaun’s antics and the colour red. He appears in "The Bull", "Saturday Night Shaun", "Who's the Mummy?" and "Heavy Metal Shaun".
  • The Ducks make frequent appearances. In the first series, a single duck suffers collateral damage due to Shaun’s exploits in "Off the Baa!", "Tidy Up", and "Bath Time". Sometimes he is seen with his lady friends. In series two there are two ducks; in series three, they have once again been replaced with a single, pure white duck.
  • The Aliens appear in "Shaun Encounters", "The Visitor" and "Cat Got Your Brain" and briefly in "Spring Lamb". They are green and have one large eye on the top of the head. Despite their clearly advanced scientific technology—which frequently causes trouble for the farm animals—they exhibit human-like behaviour and generally jovial personalities.
  • The Granny is a short-tempered, short-sighted old lady, appearing in "Takeaway" and "Save the Tree". She also appears in "Two's Company", holding a cart and "The Big Chase", forcing the pigs to give her a lift in their car. She is renowned for hitting people (or animals) with her handbag when they annoy her.
  • The Pizza Delivery Boy is a young man who rides a moped (which Bitzer often "borrows" to chase after the sheep) and works in the local pizzeria. He also moonlights as a postman in "Saturday Night Shaun".
  • The Farmer's Girlfriend appears for the first time in Series 2. She appears to be adventurous and an animal lover, patting Bitzer and Shaun and offering food to Timmy.
  • The Farmer's Niece appears in "The Farmer's Niece", "Bitzer's New Hat" and "The Rabbit". She appears to be a fan of horses and causes irritation to Shaun, Bitzer and the flock. She is also one of the few humans who know what the flock are up to.

Episodes

Main article: List of Shaun the Sheep episodes

The first two series consisted of 40 seven-minute episodes each, and the third 20 episodes. The fourth series debuted on 3 February 2014.[7] The fifth series aired in ABC Australia in January 2016. A series of 15 1-minute 3D shorts were released on Nintendo's Video service for the Nintendo 3DS between March and June 2012.[8] The Nintendo shorts will be released in early 2016 on the official Shaun the Sheep YouTube channel under the name "Mossy Bottom Farm Shorts".[9] Another series of 21 1-minute sports-themed shorts, named Championsheeps, aired on CBBC during the Summer of 2012.[10]

SeriesEpisodesOriginally released
First releasedLast releasedNetwork
1405 March 2007 (2007-03-05)14 September 2007 (2007-09-14)CBBC
24023 November 2009 (2009-11-23)17 December 2010 (2010-12-17)
32026 November 2012 (2012-11-26)20 December 2012 (2012-12-20)
4303 February 2014 (2014-02-03)19 December 2014 (2014-12-19)
5205 September 2016 (2016-09-05)18 November 2016 (2016-11-18)
62016 March 2020 (2020-03-16)Netflix
Specials26 December 2015 (2015-12-26)3 December 2021 (2021-12-03)BBC, Netflix


As with the series' parent show Wallace and Gromit, there are many allusions to other aspects of popular culture and movies such as Star Wars, The Lion King, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, The Matrix, and Pulp Fiction. These include:

  • Shirley's training in the episode "Shape Up with Shaun" is based on the film Rocky.
  • The paintings parodied in "Still Life" include the Mona Lisa and Constable's The Hay Wain.
  • In "Buzz Off Bees", the Farmer appears in his hooded beekeepers outfit, with accompanying Darth Vader-style heavy breathing.
  • The infamous shower scene from Psycho is spoofed in the episode "The Little Sheep of Horrors", whose name is itself based on the film and play The Little Shop of Horrors.
  • In "Hiccups", Shaun turns his guitar amplifier up to 11 in a reference to a scene in This Is Spinal Tap.
  • In "Fleeced", at the beginning of episode when farmer switch on shearing machine in front of the frightened flock, is very obvious reference to Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, specially when farmer grab the sheep and drag it into shearing room and jerkily closes the metal door after him - this is clear reference to scene from same film, when crazy masked killer with chainsaw catches his poor victim into his killing room and jerkily closes its metal doors after him.[11] The sheep break out and accompanying music is very reminiscent of British World War II prisoner of war films (e.g., The Great Escape)
  • In "The Visitor", the alien thrashes his car with a tree branch à la Basil Fawlty.
  • In "Mountains out of Molehills" a sheep is reading a magazine called "Bleat", a spoof of celebrity gossip magazine "Heat". In the same episode, Shaun tries to catch a mole with a fishing rod and line. When the first "bite" is shown, the first two notes of the Jaws theme are played.
  • Near the end of "Off the Baa", the "Nessun Dorma" theme from Puccini's opera Turandot is used, which was the musical theme of the BBC's coverage of the 1990 FIFA World Cup. The episode itself featured Shaun and the rest of the flock engaging in a football game with Bitzer as the referee.
  • At the end of "Mower Mouth" the shrubs are clearly reminiscent of those in Edward Scissorhands.
  • In "Saturday Night Shaun" Shaun rips off his coat and tosses it away as he is dancing, only to have it tossed back. This is reminiscent of the scene in the 1980 movie Airplane!, where Robert Hays tosses his white sport-coat away, only to have it tossed back in his face.
  • In "Party Animals", one of the sheep is dressed as a crude version of a Dalek trying to get up some stairs but failing because of the suit.
  • In "Bitzer from the Black Lagoon", Shaun cannot start the Farmer's truck and hits his head on the horn to get it started. This is a reference to Back to the Future.
  • In "Zebra Ducks of the Serengeti", the Farmer's signpost over the gate falls over Bitzer - à la Buster Keaton in Steamboat Bill Jr.
  • In "An Ill Wind", when the power supply to the farmhouse blows up, the Farmer grabs an axe and chops his wind turbine in a similar fashion to The Shining.
  • In "Shaun Encounters", two alien kids throw a bone for Bitzer. He catches the bone to Also sprach Zarathustra music. The scene is close related to the first scene with the apes in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
  • In "Pig Trouble," the background music when the Farmer makes the pigs in charge of the flock is the song "If I Had Words". This is a reference to the movie Babe, which is about a pig becoming a sheep-herding pig.

Reception

Reviews of the series were consistently positive. Harry Venning of "The Stage" found "characterisation charming and the animation superb. All this before even a mention of how funny and splendidly slapstick the script is."[12] The Guardian noted that the series "hits the four-to-seven-year-old age group smack in the eye."[13] Gareth Owen, the producer of the series, said Shaun the Sheep is aimed at viewers "aged four to seven, though in reality, the age range is four to 87", as the series became popular among all different age-groups.[14]
Charles Arthur wrote "classic Aardman style that leaves me laughing out loud."[15]

Accolades

Awards
Award Category Recipients and nominees Result
British Academy Children's Awards[16] Animation in 2010 Gareth Owen, Richard Webber, Chris Sadler Won
British Academy Children's Awards[17] Animation in 2014 Richard Starzak, Jay Grace, John Woolley Won
British Academy Children's Awards[18] Animation in 2015 John Woolley, Steve Box, Lee Wilton Nominated
International Emmy Awards[19] Kids:Animation Pending
British Academy Children's Awards[20] Animation in 2016 Pending

Spin-offs

Television special

A half-hour television special based on the television series, titled Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas, premiered on BBC One on Boxing Day 2015.[21]

Timmy Time

Main article: Timmy Time

Beginning in 2009, Aardman Animations produced a spin-off CBeebies series aimed at pre-schoolers, based on Timmy's own small adventures as he attends preschool for the first time and learns how to interact and play with a variety of young animal friends.[22]

Other media

Films

Main article: Shaun the Sheep Movie

Shaun the Sheep Movie
Film poster showing Shaun, Bitzer, Timmy, Slip, Shirley, and other sheep are running, and Trumper catches them.
UK theatrical release poster
Directed by
Screenplay by
  • Mark Burton
  • Richard Starzak
Story byMark Burton
Produced by
  • Paul Kewley
  • Julie Lockhart
Starring
Cinematography
Edited bySim Evan-Jones[25]
Music byIlan Eshkeri
Production
company
Distributed byStudioCanal
Release dates
  • 24 January 2015 (2015-01-24) (Sundance)[23]
  • 6 February 2015 (2015-02-06) (United Kingdom)[24]
Running time
85 minutes[26]
CountryUnited Kingdom[25]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$25 million[27]
Box office$106 million[28]

Shaun the Sheep Movie is a 2015 British stop-motion animated adventure comedy film inspired by the television series Shaun the Sheep, created by Nick Park. The film follows Shaun and his flock into the big city to rescue their farmer, who found himself amnesiac there as a result of their mischief.

It was produced by Aardman Animations, and financed by StudioCanal in association with Anton Capital Entertainment,[27][29] with the former also distributing the film in the United Kingdom and several other European countries.[30] 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, and was theatrically released in the United Kingdom on 6 February 2015.

Shaun the Sheep Movie was nominated at the 88th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. It was also nominated in The 73rd Golden Globe Awards, BAFTA Awards and won in the Toronto Film Critics Awards for Best Animated Film. It also earned five nominations at The Annie Awards including Best Animated Feature.

Cast

Omid Djalili
Trumper
Omid Djalili voiced Trumper.
  • Justin Fletcher as Shaun[25] is the main character in the film. A heroic sheep lives as leader of The Flock who organises and ideas. Shaun wants to have a free day, and make mischief forces it upon him to go find the farmer in the big city.
    • Fletcher also plays Timmy.[25] A little lamb who admires Shaun.
  • John Sparkes as Bitzer.[25] A trusty shepherd dog who follows the rules of the Farmer and helps Shaun to find the Farmer.
    • Sparkes also does the voice of The Farmer.[25] A British man who has spent most of his life doing routine tasks. When Shaun and the flock leave him sleeping in a caravan he ends up lost with amnesia in the big city and becomes a famous stylist known as Mr X.
  • Omid Djalili as Trumper.[25] An Animal Containment worker, who hates animals and wants to capture Shaun and the flock and have them euthanised.
  • Kate Harbour as Timmy's mum.[25] A ewe with only one child, she is willing to help Shaun find the Farmer.
    • Harbour also plays Merly.[25] A worker at the hairdressers shop where the Farmer worked when he lost his memory.
  • Richard Webber as Shirley.[25] A very fat sheep who is always eating and who helps Shaun.
  • Tim Hands as Slip.[25] A dog who never had an owner, and who becomes a friend of Shaun to help find the Farmer.
  • Simon Greenall as the twins.[25] Two sheep who help Shaun and the flock.
  • Emma Tate as Hazel.[25] A sheep member of the flock who helps Shaun and the flock to find the Farmer
  • Henry Burton as a junior doctor.[25]
    • Burton also does an Animal containment visitor[25]
  • Dhimant Vyas as a hospital consultant[25]
  • Sophie Laughton as an Animal containment visitor[25]
  • Nia Medi James as an operatic sheep[25]
  • Sean Connolly as Stylists. Workers of the Styllist Shop[25]
    • Connolly also plays the Maitre D, Golfer, Angry Panto Horse and Hospital Characters[25]
  • Stanley Unwin as Bus Station Announcer and Hospital Announcer[25]
  • Andy Nyman as Nuts.[25] A sheep with strange eyes who is member of The Flock.
  • Jack Paulson as a celebrity with hair trouble.[25] A man who was in the desatre a restaurant and his hair is cut by The Farmer.
  • Nick Park as himself.[25] Park plays a man who sees two birds kissing until the caravan takes away his tent and is attacked by the 2 birds.

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.[31] By April 2013, StudioCanal was set to finance and distribute the film, written and directed by Richard Starzak and Mark Burton.[30] The film had an initial release date of 20 March 2015,[32] which later was moved to 6 February 2015.[24] Principal photography and production began on 30 January 2014.[33]

Music

Soundtrack

Untitled

Ilan Eshkeri composed the music for the film.[34] 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.[35] The soundtrack was released in the UK digitally on 1 June 2015 and on CD on 29 June 2015.[36]

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

Shaun the Sheep Movie premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival as part of the Sundance Kid program on 24 January 2015.[23] The film was theatrically released in the United Kingdom on 6 February 2015 by StudioCanal.[24]

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 Flock), and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (renamed The Hungry Games: Eating Hay).[37]

Home media

Shaun the Sheep Movie was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK on 1 June 2015 by StudioCanal.[38]

Reception

Critical reception

The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes records 99% positive reviews based on 152 critics and 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."[39] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 81 out of 100, based on 30 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[40] On CinemaScore, audience members gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.[41]

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."[42] 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."[43] 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."[44] 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."[45]

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."[46] 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."[47] 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."[48] 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."[49]

Aardman developed a feature film Shaun the Sheep Movie,[50] written and directed by Richard Starzak and Mark Burton, which was financed by French StudioCanal,[27] which was released on 6 February 2015. The film received very positive reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 99% of critics have given the film a positive review.[51] The film opened to $3.2 million in the UK and grossed $22 millon in the UK and $106 million worldwide[52]

On 14 September 2015, StudioCanal announced it is working with Aardman on a sequel.[27] On 25 October 2016, Aardman announced that pre-production on the film, titled Shaun the Sheep Movie 2, will begin in January 2017.[53]

Video games

Main article: Shaun the Sheep (video game)

On 16 June 2008, D3 Publisher of America, which had previously published a game based on Aardman's 2006 film Flushed Away, announced that it would also release a video game based on Shaun's escapades. The Shaun the Sheep game was developed by Art Co., Ltd exclusively for Nintendo DS, and was released in autumn 2008.[54]

A second game for Nintendo DS, titled Shaun the Sheep: Off His Head, was released on 23 October 2009, exclusively in Europe.[55]

The Shaun the Sheep web site is also home to several Flash-based games, including Home Sheep Home,[56] which is also available at the iOS App Store for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.[57]

The first game for Nintendo 3DS, titled Shaun the Sheep: Championsheeps was released in December 2015.[58]

On June 2016, an event course called Shaun's Mossy Mole Mischief, released on the game Super Mario Maker, alongside with Shaun's costume.[59]

Theatre

On 9 March 2011, Shaun the Sheep made its live theatre début in Shaun's Big Show.[60] The 100-minute-long musical/dance show features all the regular characters, including Bitzer, Shirley and Timmy.

In 2015, Shaun starred in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs pantomime at Bristol Hippodrome.[61]

Shaun the Sheep Experience

In 2015, a family attraction based on Shaun the Sheep, called "The Shaun the Sheep Experience" will open at Lands End, rebranded "Lamb's End" for the duration of the attraction. It will feature original sets, models, and characters from many Aardman productions. Using green screen technology, guests will be able to "star" in a scene from the show, as well as meet other characters from the Aardman filmography including Wallace and Gromit, as well as Morph.[62]

Promotional

On 26 September 2013, the International Rugby Board and Aardman Animations announced that Shaun and other characters from the franchise would be used in a merchandising programme to promote the 2015 Rugby World Cup to children.[63]

In 2015, Shaun the Sheep appeared as the face of the "Holidays at Home are Great" directive. In the advert, seeing the Farmer going away, Shaun and the flock decide to have their own holiday around the UK before the Farmer got back.[64]

Shaun in the City

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Shaun in the City sculpture by Cath Kidston, London

In 2015, Shaun the Sheep starred in two public charity arts trails to raise money for sick children in hospitals across the UK. Organised by Wallace & Gromit's Children's Foundation in collaboration with Aardman, Shaun in the City saw 50 giant artist and celebrity-decorated sculptures of Shaun appear in London in the spring, before a further 70 appeared in Bristol throughout the summer.[65] All 120 sculptures were auctioned in October 2015, raising £1,087,900 for Wallace & Gromit's Grand Appeal and Wallace & Gromit's Children's Charity.[66]

Shaun the Sheep Land

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Shaun in the city sculpture ''Ram of the match''

A Shaun the Sheep theme park, titled Shaun the Sheep Land was opened at Skånes Djurpark in Sweden in early Summer 2016.[67]

DVDs

Region 2 (Europe)

DVD name # of episodes Release date
Shaun the Sheep: Shape Up With Shaun (8 Baa...rilliant Adventures!) 8 12 September 2007
Shaun the Sheep: Off The Baa! (8 Woolly Adventures!) 8 12 November 2007
Shaun the Sheep: The Box Set! (Includes Shape Up With Shaun & Off The Baa! DVD's) 16 12 November 2007
Shaun the Sheep: Saturday Night Shaun (Fleece Is The Word!) 8 10 March 2008
Shaun the Sheep: Abracadabra 8 20 October 2008
Shaun the Sheep: Wash Day 8 17 November 2008
Shaun the Sheep: The Complete First Series 40 17 November 2008
Shaun the Sheep: Spring Lamb 8 29 March 2010
Shaun the Sheep: Two's Company 8 6 September 2010
Shaun the Sheep: Party Animals 8 8 November 2010
Shaun the Sheep: The Gift Set (Includes 3 DVD's: Spring Lamb, Two's Company & Party Animals) 24 8 November 2010
Shaun the Sheep: The Big Chase 8 4 April 2011
Shaun the Sheep: We Wish Ewe A Merry Christmas 8 3 October 2011
Shaun the Sheep: The Complete Second Series 40 3 October 2011
Shaun the Sheep: Spring Cleaning 10 7 April 2014
Shaun the Sheep: Shear Heat 10 21 July 2014
Shaun the Sheep: Christmas Bleatings 10 3 November 2014
Shaun the Sheep: Flock To The Floor 10 26 January 2015
Shaun the Sheep: Picture Perfect 10 30 March 2015
Shaun the Sheep Movie 1 movie 1 June 2015
Shaun the Sheep: Complete Series 3&4 Boxset 50 24 October 2015
Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas 1 + 15 shorts 8 February 2016

Region 1 (U.S. and Canada)

  • Off the Baa! (11 November 2008): Off The Baa! / Timmy In A Tizzy / Buzz Off Bees / Things That Go Bump / Mower Mouth / Fleeced / Shaun Shoots The Sheep / Mountains Out Of Molehills
  • Back in the Ba-a-ath (10 February 2009): Shape Up with Shaun / Bathtime / Fetching / Take Away / Still Life / Scrumping / Stick With Me / The Kite
  • Sheep on the Loose (9 June 2009): Sheep on the Loose / Saturday Night Shaun / Tidy Up / Shaun the Farmer / Camping Chaos / If You Can't Stand the Heat
  • Little Sheep of Horrors (1 September 2009): Little Sheep of Horrors / Abracadabra / Things That Go Bump / Heavy Metal Shaun / Troublesome Tractor / Sheepwalking
  • A Wooly Good Time (16 February 2010): Washday / Tooth Fairy / The Farmer's Niece / Snore-Worn Shaun / Helping Hound / Big Top Timmy
  • One Giant Leap for Lambkind (8 June 2010): Shaun Encounters / The Bull / Hiccups / Bitzer Puts His Foot In It / Save The Tree / The Visitor
  • Party Animals (7 September 2010): Double Trouble / Strictly No Dancing / Party Animals / Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow / Pig Swill Fly / Shaun Goes Potty / Operation Pidsley
  • Shaun the Sheep: Season 1 (19 October 2010) (Full Screen)[68]
  • Spring Shena-a-anigans (25 January 2011): Spring Lamb / Supersize Timmy / Bagpipe Buddy / Cheetah Cheater / Lock Out / Draw the Line / Ewe've Been Framed
  • The Big Chase (19 April 2011): The Big Chase / Bitzer from the Black Lagoon / Zebra Ducks of the Serengeti / Bitzer's Basic Training / The Magpie / The Boat / Hide and Squeak
  • Animal Antics (26 July 2011): Foxy Laddie / Whistleblower / Frantic Romantic / Who's the Caddy / Everything Must Go / In the Doghouse / Cock-a-Doodle Shaun
  • We Wish Ewe A Merry Christmas (18 October 2011) We Wish Ewe a Merry Christmas / Snowed In / Fireside Favorite / An Ill Wind / Bitzer's New Hat / Chip Off the Old Block / Shirley Whirley
  • Shaun the Sheep: Season 2 (15 November 2011) (Widescreen)[69]
  • Shear Madness (17 April 2012): Pig Trouble / Sheepless Nights / Party Animals / Cat’s Got Your Brain / Two’s Company / What’s Up, Dog! / Draw the Line

Blu-ray discs

Region B (Europe)

  • Shaun das Schaf – Special Edition 2 (complete Series 2) (Germany, 25 March 2011) (16:9 Widescreen)
  • Shaun das Schaf – Special Edition 3 (complete Series 3) (Germany, 5 November 2013) (16:9 Widescreen)
  • Shaun das Schaf – Special Edition 4 (complete Series 4) (Germany, 5 November 2015) (16:9 Widescreen)
  • Shaun das Schaf – Die Lamas des Farmers (Germany, 10 March 2016) (16:9 Widescreen)

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