At long last, a movie the entire family can watch. Because of the way I choose movies, I haven't seen a family-friendly movie in weeks. I knew nothing about Shaun the Sheep, but I recognized the "Wallace & Gromit" style of animation. I am not a fan. Nevertheless, everything looks amazingly realistic except for people and animals. And an enjoyable story is told with no dialogue other than nonsensical sounds or animal noises such as "Baa" with the occasional "Uh-oh", "Uh-uh" or whatever essential word is necessary to communicate.
No words are really needed for a really funny story. And there are even sad scenes. But we can assume everything will turn out all right. The intelligence of these animals is amazing.
There is just the right amount of physical humor and this isn't really too violent, though a teddy bear with no apparent owner is the victim of an advanced weapon used by the evil Trumper, the Animal Containment worker. That weapon is probably the most concerning part of the movie, but still not too intense for young kids.
Several scenes have what could be described as toilet humor but they're probably not inappropriate for young children. A bag labeled "Manure" is probably the worst thing. What is inside is not processed but looks like what would have to be cleaned up. And someone ends up in a pile of what I assume is the same thing.
The only understandable words other than the few that are needed are song lyrics, usually recorded music, but the sheep also sing as a "Baa-baa shop quartet". There is music for just about every taste, including classical and conventional movie background music. There is also loud rock music in the city and in many scenes with Trumper which I found really unpleasant. The traditional country style music in the farm scenes was nice. Even though this seems to be British, what Americans call country music originated in part with traditional Scottish and Irish styles, and I assume these styles influenced the music on the farm.
This was a worthy effort.
No words are really needed for a really funny story. And there are even sad scenes. But we can assume everything will turn out all right. The intelligence of these animals is amazing.
There is just the right amount of physical humor and this isn't really too violent, though a teddy bear with no apparent owner is the victim of an advanced weapon used by the evil Trumper, the Animal Containment worker. That weapon is probably the most concerning part of the movie, but still not too intense for young kids.
Several scenes have what could be described as toilet humor but they're probably not inappropriate for young children. A bag labeled "Manure" is probably the worst thing. What is inside is not processed but looks like what would have to be cleaned up. And someone ends up in a pile of what I assume is the same thing.
The only understandable words other than the few that are needed are song lyrics, usually recorded music, but the sheep also sing as a "Baa-baa shop quartet". There is music for just about every taste, including classical and conventional movie background music. There is also loud rock music in the city and in many scenes with Trumper which I found really unpleasant. The traditional country style music in the farm scenes was nice. Even though this seems to be British, what Americans call country music originated in part with traditional Scottish and Irish styles, and I assume these styles influenced the music on the farm.
This was a worthy effort.