Shaun the Sheep Movie [DVD + Digital]

This is such a great movie, I have watched it about 9 times now so I think I am ready to review it! So this movie starts like any other average day in the Shawn the sheep series (except the beginning film with the song "every day feels like summer with you"...then Shawn wakes up and its time to start an average day on the farm, wake up, eat, sleep..wake up, eat, sleep, wake up. eat. sleep. Shawn was really starting to get tired of this and so he decided to create a plan to get into the farmer away from his house. When the farmer was put to sleep by the sheep and locked up in an old trailer...they snuck into his house they watched some TV, jumped on the couch a bit, and stuffed a pizza in the toaster, the sheep dog Blitzer saw them inside and ordered them to get out. Blitzer then discovered where the farmer was and tried to open the door up to the trailer but the wood chunk block from underneath the trailer moved and there goes the trailer heading off to the city with Blitzer, Shaun and the rest of the gang behind them. After a lot of stunts happen the trailer finally stops in the "Big City" the farmer wakes up and walks outside and sees crowds of people looking at him. The farmer becomes confused and stands there and the top of a light post smacked his head. He was the rushed to the hospital with Blitzer trailing behind the ambulance. When Blitzer arrived at the hospital he was thrown out because of a "no dogs allowed" policy . He finally snook in and dressed as a surgeon to enter the farmers room. Then Blitzer checked what he had been diagnosed with Amnesia (Information about his whole life!)The Farmer eventually gets out of the hospital and discovers a hair cut place and he is reminded of sheep sheers and he goes inside and starts shaving a guys hair just like Shawns fluffy head! The man was famous and he loved the hair cut and the farmer became a worldwide known hair stylist! After Shawn and his crew gets to the city a pet catcher saw Shawn but they ran into a thrift shop to create a disguise. For several days they go searching around the city with lots of comedy spilled in between they almost are about to give up. And they go to an ally to rest and timmy (baby sheep) starts to cry because he missed the farmer.(this is my favorite part) The sheep begin to harmonize together singing "everyday feels like summer with you". The farmer hears their song and realizes that he had not been a Hairstylist as his job and he does not belong in the city. He crinkles up one of his ads with a picture of him on it and tosses it out the window. It floats all the way down to Shawn and he reads it. They now know where the Farmer is! They create a fantastic plan and that night they go to the salon and get him back. They sit him on top of a horse suit (that the sheep created) and they thought everything was great until the pet catcher saw shawn and chased them throughout the city all the way back to the farm. The got out of the horse suit with that farmer and hid in a shed right by their farm. But the pet catcher when to get a forklift/digger and pushed them all the way to the large dump hole. The farmer finally woke up and the sheep were crying and hugging him. He then realized who he was and tried to save them, shawn then had an idea and escaped through the broken window and started fighting the pet catcher. Shawn finally got in control until the side of the shed breaks open and the farmer grabs one of the sheep before he fell into the deep pit. Shawn tossed the pet catcher over and saved his family! Then finally Shawn​ realized that he is happy just how his life is right now and that he is happy and thankful for the farmer, Blitzer,and his wooly sheep family.*If this review was helpful to you please click the helpful button below, thank you*

If only more animated films were as creative and entertaining as this! Believe it or not, despite being aware of them for a long time, this is the first Aardman feature I've ever seen. The plot for SHAUN THE SHEEP is a very simple one: Bored with the routine at the farm, Shaun and his friends trick the Farmer into having the day off (kind of), but he gets lost in the big city and Shaun & Co must go find and rescue their beloved owner. I suppose the first thing you should know is that this movie has no intelligible dialogue whatsoever, making it kind of a silent film. People who rely heavily on speaking and exposition to guide them through a story may find this irksome, but I thought it worked rather well. The pacing is really good and there's always a gag of some sort to make you laugh. Of course, Aardman aren't above toilet humor, and those handful of gags were probably the reason for the PG rating. Aside from being a funny film that will appeal to children and adults, though, it works in some subtle commentary on our technology and social media-obsessed society. After the Farmer gets a knock on the head and temporarily loses his memory in the Big City, he inadvertently becomes an internet sensation by giving people haircuts in the style he used on his sheep. There's also plenty of other visual cues, as nearly everyone in the city is on a mobile device of some kind. While not really delivering a message, per se, it would be hard not to come away from this with the feeling that maybe we've lost ourselves in the hustle and bustle of modern life and need to occasionally unplug and enjoy the simpler pleasures of friends and family. So, the film is definitely on solid thematic ground. The only place where it falters a little bit is resorting to the usual action climax. It leads there naturally, but the plot had begun to lose a little bit of steam by that point. Fortunately, it never wore out its welcome, and concluded in heartwarming fashion. I should also mention that I loved the music, which included both original tunes (I think) and previously existing songs. There's even a couple of a movie references/homages for the film buffs in the audience. Overall, while not completely perfect, it's about as perfect as can be and is a refreshing reminder that there's still room in today's crowded, CGI animation-dominated landscape for lovingly crafted Claymation like this.

This is a great movie for kids and adults. Very creative, simple and interesting story.

If you have kids and don't already know about Shaun the Sheep, run (don't walk) to the nearest source for the TV show and introduce it to your kids. It's done in Claymation style by the Wallace and Grommit folks, and concerns the goings-on at a rural English farm.There's the farmer, of course, and his faithful dog (Bitzer), who, together, attempt to run the place. The main characters are Shaun and the rest of the flock of sheep. There are also some piggish pigs and a bullish bull, as well as a voracious goat, a loquacious rooster, and various other farm-related characters.One conceit of the show is that none of the characters speak intelligibly - all communication is done either visually or through grunts, exclamations, and/or gibberish whose tone is meant to convey contextual meaning. Describing it on paper (or pixels) does it poor justice, as it is a creative and endearing method to remove language barriers while allowing the animals all to communicate without becoming fully anthropomorphized.In this film, the action moves to the big city, where all the primary characters from the TV show have an exciting adventure. The story is serious enough to be engaging, silly enough to be relatively harmless, and funny enough for adults to enjoy alongside their kids.Highly recommended, and I hope this is the first of many such films. Well done.