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Rattle your dags, Shaun is back
Dirs. Will Becher, Richard Phelan. UK. 2019. 86mins.
Sheep in Space? Baah, humbug.
A little over four years ago, animation powerhouse Aardman successfully turned its seven-minute episodic TV series Shaun The Sheep into a full-length dialogue-free feature animation for children which was delightful enough to get parents on side. The mischievous Shaun, with his bendy black limbs and stretchy mouth which sticks out of the side of his head, defied expectations to become a global super-sheep with an Oscar nomination and over $100 million of cinema tickets sold, not to mention ancillaries.
If you come out of a second Shaun The Sheep film still wanting more sheep, how can that be a baaad thing?
With a change of directors – in fact, some big changes at Aardman itself as Sean Clarke replaces retiring MD David Sproxton – the kings of claymation have just about repeated the...