A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon

***A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon*** is a 2019 British stop-motion animated science fiction comedy film produced by *Aardman Animations* and a standalone sequel to *Shaun the Sheep Movie*. Directed by Will Becher and Richard Phelan (in their directorial debuts), the film is based on the stop-motion claymation series *Shaun The Sheep* and was released on 26 September 2019 in Germany, October 16 2019 in France and October 18, 2019 in the United Kingdom. It was meant to be released in the United States by December 13th, 2019, but *Netflix* brought the distribution rights to the movie and pushed the release date to February 14th, 2020.

## Plot

A young alien comes across planet earth, and after he meets Shaun, Shaun decides to help him get back home to his home planet.

## Why It Rocks

1. Gorgeous stop-motion animation that's a massive step up from previous Aardman films, including the first film.
2. Like the first movie, it is completely faithful to the show as keeps the same charm and wit from it and also has no dialogue.
3. There's a nice throwback to the *Wallace & Gromit* short "A Grand Day Out" at the beginning.
4. The humour is excellent and are always easy to get a laugh out of. Examples being when one of the agents changes UFOs caught from 0000 to 0001, and everyone applauses, and the reveal that a secret government base was actually a car wash.
5. Many of the pop culture references were actually used quite well and are funny homages to sci-fi movies and shows, like *2001: A Space Odyssey*, *Star Trek*, *Doctor Who*, etc.
6. Despite not being as comical as A. Trumper was in the first film, Agent Red is a rather interesting and memorable villain, she also has a nice backstory of how she was bullied at school.
7. It introduces Lu-La, who is a very cute and likable character who has a nice backstory of how she came to earth.
8. There's also a rather fun sub-plot of the farmer trying to build a theme park after he finds the alien symbol in his crops.
9. It has an amazingly awesome climax.
10. Very great pacing.
11. Much like like the show, the performances from the voice actors of the characters are very good, despite the fact there is no dialogue.
12. Nice ending with a very touching note.

## Bad Qualities

1. The plot is a little predictable.
2. Depending on the view, many of the fans mistooke Lu-la for male due to her high-pitched masucline voice.

## Reception

*A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon* premiered with critical acclaim from critics and amazing audiences alike. The film has a 97% from Rotten Tomatoes and it's consensus states, "*A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon* retains the charm of its small-screen source material while engagingly expanding the title character's world." The film also gained a score of 80 out of 100 from Metacritic.

## Trivia

* The Tagline: "Close Encounters of the Furred Kind" references *Close Encounters Of The Third Kind*.
* The Hawaiian music in the backround Hawaiian Flower from a scene is best known for being used in SpongeBob SquarePants.

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