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Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas

Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas

Animation · Comedy · Family · 2021

Shaun's seasonal excitement turns to dismay when a farmhouse raid to get bigger stockings for the flock inadvertently leads to Timmy going missing. Can Shaun get Timmy back before he becomes someone else’s present?

Movie details

Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas

2021 Animation · Comedy · Family 30m

Critical arithmetic

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TMDB

7.0 / 10

Community rating

Shaun's seasonal excitement turns to dismay when a farmhouse raid to get bigger stockings for the flock inadvertently leads to Timmy going missing. Can Shaun get Timmy back before he becomes someone else’s present?

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

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The archetype split

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The people responsible.

Directed by

Steve Cox

Written by

Giles Pilbrow · Mark Burton

Justin Fletcher

Justin Fletcher

Shaun / Timmy (voice)

John Sparkes

John Sparkes

The Farmer / Bitzer (voice)

Kate Harbour

Kate Harbour

Timmy's Mother (voice)

Laura Aikman

Laura Aikman

Ella (voice)

Marcus Brigstocke

Marcus Brigstocke

Farmer Ben (voice)

Anna Leong Brophy

Anna Leong Brophy

Jin (voice)

Simon Greenall

Simon Greenall

Additional Voices (voice)

Court is in session

Put Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.