Rated: G
Directed by: Will Becher, Richard Phelan
Written by: Mark Burton, Jon Brown
Produced by: Paul Kewley
Co-Produced by: Richard Beek
Based on the Idea by: Richard Starzak
Shaun the Sheep, mark 2 (ha, ha, like marking a sheep, although, I don’t know wether (ha, ha) everyone will appreciate the farming humour) finds the familiar mob of Shaun and mates: baby sheep, Timmy, Nuts the cock-eyed eccentric and of course, double the size, super-round tub of fun, Shirley, up to mischief on Mossy Bottom Farm and still under the watchful eye of ever vigilant farm dog, Bitzer.
The clay, stop-motion characters (on average, two seconds of animation produced, per animator, per day) never gets old; the woolly tails and gappy-toothed characters always able to make their feelings known without uttering a single intelligible word.
Here in, Farmageddon, a new character is introduced to the world of Shaun, Lu-La.
Lu-La may look like a purple and pink dog, but those ears glow and have special powers. Alien powers.
With UFO sightings comes Believers. And with Believers flocking (I just can’t seem to help myself) to Mossingham, comes the opportunity to make money.
Full of the usual antics that we’ve come to expect from the franchise, Shaun the Sheep 2 has that same humour with the added dimension of space. In other words, G-rated humour that had my nephews in hysterics – think, nasty bull accidently getting beamed up into a spaceship, looking aggressively unhappy.
And I admit, I was tickled about Farmer walking around in a jumper, woolly socks and bright red y-fronts.
After 150 episodes of the TV show, one TV special and, now, two feature- length movies, Shaun is still a lot of fun, here his world expanded with 70 sets making Faramageddon the biggest undertaking to date.
Due for release during the school holidays, this is a film you can take young kids without being a painful experience for the adults.