Flushed Away

As the movie opens, the little girl pours a whole box of rat food (and its box) into the dish at the front of Roddy's cage.

When Roddy slides down to the front of the cage minutes later, neither the food, nor the upturned box is anywhere to be seen.

At one point in the movie, Spike is incorrectly shown loosening a screw-on cap on a can of "Mixed Nuts" by turning it clockwise to remove it.

When the lid pops off, the threads are clearly the standard, counterclockwise-to-remove direction instead.

Similarly, when Spike is screwing the liquid nitrogen hose to the chamber Roddie and Rita are in, he turns it counter-clockwise rather than clockwise.

When Rita is held upside down by whitey her rear (with pocket containing the ruby) is held facing away from Whitey.

When the view switches to her face, this is also facing away from Whitey.

Rita's belt.

In the end sequence after Le Frog removes the master cable from Rita there is no opportunity for her to obtain a new belt, yet after the wave is frozen she is shown standing with Roddy suddenly wearing a black shoelace as a belt.

A number of times, the timer during the soccer game shows the timer down.

Time is kept going up in soccer, thus making halftime 45:00 as opposed to 0:00.

During the sequence with Roddy and Rita and the ruby, the "Jammie Dodger" passes by the same scenery on shore twice.

Just before the Jammy Dodger plunges to its watery grave, Roddy and Rita chew through the twine that is holding the "Duty Free" plastic bag in place.

They briefly are seen each holding a length of twine that is tied to one of the bag's handles.

In the next shot, they are holding the handles for the bag itself, and the twine is never seen again.

In the scene where Roddy falls onto the drawing at the city.

Up above him the shot shows he landed in the middle, away from the trees in the picture.

In the next shot where he gets up, his right leg is on the trees.

How could he land in the middle then all of a sudden appear in another position? When Rita and Roddy are escaping from The Toad at the beginning, Rita jumps down repeatedly and ends on the handle of a hammer.

When Roddy jumps/falls down the same path Rita went, the hammer has changed, and he ends on the head of the hammer.

In the first toy car sequence (the one with the dolls), when Roddy brakes, the front bumper and license plate "clip" or "sink" through the floor.

As Rita and Roddy go floating past Le Frog and Rita grabs the cable, she is seen holding it in her hand, but in the next shot as she and Roddy are floating over London she is suddenly wearing it.

When Sid first appears, he grabs two hotdogs off the counter and runs to the living room to watch TV.

During the commercial for the soccer game, Sid throws a hotdog at the TV, leaving a grease smudge on the glass as it slides down.

Later when the soccer game is on, no greasy mark remains.

Given Sid's lack of cleanliness, it is unlikely he would have cleaned the TV by the time the game was on.

The doll that Sid throws up in the air changes position several times after he discovers Roddy and Rita.

It goes from being at his feet to being near the door to being several inches away from the door when he leaves the room.

After Roddy is flushed down the toilet he is shown traveling down a pipe filled with water.

Yet, when he is dumped into the main sewer line, there is no water coming out of the pipe.

When Roddy and Rita are running away from the toad with the gem, The albino rat hit man has mittens on from the fridge, but they vanish when he uses his mate to try and slide down the rope.

When the World Cup match is on, it says England are playing, but the flag on the screen is the Union flag which is for the United Kingdom, not England.

During the chase scene with Rita and Roddy vs.

the other rats, the view towards the bow of the boat shows hanging signs.

The reverse view shows the exact same signs in the exact same positions as if the boat were headed in the opposite direction.

When Roddy first meets Sid, they are on the kitchen counter with lots of food that would have to be refrigerated, like a chocolate cake and sausages.

Given the fact that the owners of Roddy have just left for a vacation, it would be inconceivable for them to have left all that food out while they were gone away.

Several times during the film, someone gets thrown into the toilet which is shown to be almost full with water.

Most British toilets have a far lower water level, however this varies depending on the individual toilet and a higher water level is possible.

As well as the aforementioned error with the water level in British toilets not matching that shown in the film (Although it can depend based on the model), a large majority of toilets in the UK don't swirl, either.

I've always had a soft spot for animation, so this one was another one I anticipated back when it first came out. It definitely exceeded my expectations for it, because it was a really enjoyable and fun ride.

Roddy (Hugh Jackman) is a high class mouse living in the lap of luxury. When sewer rat Sid gets in, Roddy gets flushed down to the sewers.

Beautiful animation. Loads of great secondary characters and engaging details.

Its always some good fun to see a british movie with some different humor than the americans. but not everything brit is good.

This movie was better than I expected. I liked the world of the rats and all the character humour.

I saw this in the cinema when it first came out and I enjoyed it more than I did the trailer, which was funny but the film had more to it. Re-visiting this film today for the first time in a few years, I watched it in a different way than I ever did before by pointing out how London was represented as an underground sewer city (one of the key ideas of my London-in-film university assignment) and some patriotic elements.

This movie was smart, short & actually funny enough to make you laugh out loud. The music picked & changed for each situations, even in the credits is well fitting.

Short and pacey, Flushed Away doesn't have time to set up its characters or plot in enough detail, making it feel empty.The moral is obviously that being lonely is bad and lots of friends and family is good, however, especially with Aardman's Wallace & Gromit The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit in mind, it comes across as being rich and posh is bad and common as muck is good, and frankly, this is quite offensive.

This is the best movie of all time. Not being ironic or anything silly this is a serious review for a film that deserved best picture.