DreamMachine Episode 15: Flushed Away

In this episode of DreamMachine, Patricia and Arun discuss about
the 2006 DreamWorks film, Flushed Away. The movie is about a
rich, upperclass rat named Roddy St. James who lives in a
luxurious apartment in Kensington, England. But then, a street
rat named Sid crashes the place to watch the World Cup and
disposes Roddy in the toilet. He ends up in a sewer city named
Ratropolis where he meets up with a female rat named Rita. She
helps Roddy get back home with her boat, The Jammy Dodger, while
she goes after an evil toad for stealing her father's ruby and
ends up taking a cable that controls Ratropolis' floodgates. Will
Roddy get back home? Will Rita get revenge on The Toad?  


Flushed Away was the third animated movie by Aardman Animations
distributed by DreamWorks, but was the first theatrical film that
didn't use the studio's stop motion animation. Instead, it was
animated with CGI. It would be their last movie distributed by
DreamWorks because Flushed Away only made $178 million dollars
out of a $149 million dollar budget which the company considered
to be a box office failure and ended up terminating their
partnership. Since then, Aardman Animations has either teamed up
with Sony or independently. Did DreamWorks release another
classic like Chicken Run and Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the
Were-Rabbit or did it end up in a mediocre note? Listen and find
out.