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Lydia Leftcoast

(48,217 posts) Sat Aug 22, 2015, 01:33 PM Aug 2015

If you haven't seen the "Shaun the Sheep" movie, the time is now

It's a stop-motion anime about a farm where the animals sort of have human intelligence and the farmer is a bit of a dimwit. Shaun is a teenage sheep and the one who thinks up all the mischief. There's no dialogue other than animal noises or human exclamations ("Hmm" or "Ooohh!&quot , just an endless string of highly original sight gags coming almost too fast to process in a plot that involves the farmer being lost in the city with amnesia and the animals setting out to find him.

This is the kind of movie that both children and adults can enjoy, given the different levels of humor.

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If you haven't seen the "Shaun the Sheep" movie, the time is now (Original Post) Lydia Leftcoast Aug 2015 OP

There's a TV series with Shaun, too NV Whino Aug 2015 #1

It's now on Amazon Prime Lydia Leftcoast Aug 2015 #5

I'd like to see it! shenmue Aug 2015 #2

I fell in love with Nick Park's claymation work early on Brother Buzz Aug 2015 #3

We have been watching Shaun the Sheep for years. Lilyhoney Aug 2015 #4

NV Whino

(20,886 posts)

1. There's a TV series with Shaun, too

Reply to Lydia Leftcoast (Original post)

Sat Aug 22, 2015, 02:19 PM

Aug 2015

It was streaming on Netflix. Don't know if it still is.

I would chortle and chuckle like an idiot watching the thing.

Lydia Leftcoast

(48,217 posts)

5. It's now on Amazon Prime

Reply to NV Whino (Reply #1)

Sat Aug 22, 2015, 05:41 PM

Aug 2015

after being completely unavailable in the U.S. for a couple of years.

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

2. I'd like to see it!

Reply to Lydia Leftcoast (Original post)

Sat Aug 22, 2015, 02:46 PM

Aug 2015

Brother Buzz

(36,478 posts)

3. I fell in love with Nick Park's claymation work early on

Reply to Lydia Leftcoast (Original post)

Sat Aug 22, 2015, 03:29 PM

Aug 2015

I saw the short, Creature Comforts, at an animated film festival and was blown away. I just knew good things were coming down the pike. Claymation is a really cool animation art form, and Nick Park mastered it.

Interesting, at the same festival I saw another short from an unknown company in Marin County called Pixar that involved a cute puny Luxo lamp . CGI? huh? That was the buzz back in the day. Steve Job's connection wasn't even known at the time. I was old school and couldn't wrap my head around the idea of a cartoon being generated entirely by computer and had no idea where it would go.

Lilyhoney

(1,985 posts)

4. We have been watching Shaun the Sheep for years.

Reply to Lydia Leftcoast (Original post)

Sat Aug 22, 2015, 04:24 PM

Aug 2015

We have a young child who loves the show and has seen the movie several times. We have found this show to be one of the best child/adult friendly shows around.

The same makers also have the movie The Curse of the Ware-rabbit.

Thanks for posting.

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