Flush the Awful Animation

You'll be forgiven if you think Flushed Away sounds like something you've already seen.

Its story line -- pampered city animal finds himself in the wilderness, learns true meaning of friendship -- has been ludicrously recycled of late in movies like Madagascar, The Wild and Open Season. But this new cartoon from the U.K.'s Aardman Animations -- the company behind Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit -- has one substantial difference from those other movies: It doesn't suck. Better yet, it beats the competition at its own game, making us forgive even the use of fart jokes (which the Brits do better than anyone -- Chaucer and Shakespeare invented them, after all).
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