Review of Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) by Jacob — 09 Mar 2016

Shaun the Sheep is charming. While this is a simple day off story with gags, beats, and cliché characters you’ve seen before it’ll be hard to let them get to you. Not only did Aardman throw their back out creating charming stop-motion but they told a story without dialogue.

The story is conveyed through creative ways and charming characters. Sheep who are mischevious yet still likeable, a cliché animal catcher whose still charming, and a dog who just is trying to do his job.

With characters are charming as these you won’t want to throw them away like the animal catcher but take them home and adopt them. This isn’t a deep, tear-jerker like Inside Out; but there is something entertaining about a film that doesn’t have a deep story, water itself down for children, or bombard you pop culture references constantly (ok there are two in here that are cute) but instead keeps things simple and gives you characters to connect with.

Aardman continues to shine in these elements and hopefully they’ll stick around and make more films like these.