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Flushed Away is a 2006 British-American CGI-animated comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Animations; it is directed by David Bowers and Sam Fell, executive produced by Steven Spielberg, and written by Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, and Simon Nye. It is the third and final partnership between Aardman Animations who created Wallace and Gromit, and DreamWorks Animation, and is the first completely computer-animated project from Aardman as opposed to their usual stop-motion.

The film released November 3, 2006, the same day as The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause and received generally positive reviews from critics, but it became a box-office bomb, only grossing $178 million worldwide against its $149 million budget, prompting DreamWorks to end their partnership with Aardman.

Synopsis[]

A pampered pet "society mouse" Roddy St. James thinks he's got it made... until he's literally flushed away to a bustling underground world of ninja frogs, hench-rats and singing slugs. In an attempt to get out, he meets an enterprising scavenger Rita and a villainous Toad.

Plot[]

Roddy St. James is an upper-crust pet mouse who makes his home in a posh Kensington apartment. When his owners leave on a trip, he takes advantage of having the house to himself. When a sewer rat by the name of Sid spews out of the sink, greets Roddy, and Sid actually decides to stay at his house and enjoy the environment, Roddy plans to make Sid leave by taking him to the toilet and tries to convince him that it's really a "big jacuzzi". While being an ignorant slob, he does know his plumbing (due to being a sewer rat). Instead, he pushes Roddy in and flushes him down the drain (but before doing so, very important, he warns Roddy to hold his nose and laughs). He ends up going on quite a journey through the drainpipes through the drains and eventually ends up in the Rat or drain version of London called Ratropolis.

There, Roddy meets Rita Malone, an enterprising scavenger rat who works the drains in her boat the Jammy Dodger. Rita doesn't like Roddy initially, but ends up taking him along as The Toad sends his minions, Spike and Whitey, after her because she had stolen back her father's prized ruby a long time ago. The Toad despises all rodents to the point of hateful obsession, blaming rats for his fall from grace (he was once Prince Charles' pet but was replaced by a rat). He decides to have them frozen with liquid nitrogen. However, the Toad's plan fails. Worse, during their escape, Rita takes a unique electrical cable. The cable is required to control the drain floodgates. The Toad's evil plan is to open the gates during halftime of the World Cup, drowning the rats and their underground city in sewage. He can then use the depopulated city as a home for millions of his own tadpole offspring.

As the two of them escape by using the cable to slide down the zipline, Roddy grabs Rita's belt, until he rips it off and accidentally pulls her pants down to her ankles, revealing her blue striped underwear. Rita screams in embarrassment, and attempts to pull her trousers back up, until she accidentally lets go of the cable. Roddy and Rita then fall, and Roddy then loses Rita's trousers on a large nail, and she glares at him. Rita then grabs onto a large pole, and Roddy grabs onto her bare legs. He grips on tightly, in fear of falling down. Rita, still in her underwear, then begins to lose grip, and the two fall again. They then land in a fruit cart. As they sneak out, Rita grabs a watermelon, and covers her underwear, blushing bright red. They then sneak onto the Jammy Dodger, and escape. Roddy finds out that the ruby is a fake and breaks it in front of Rita, enraging her, for she can now not get the money she needs for her large family. Roddy offers her a real ruby if she takes him back to Kensington. After accepting the offer, the pair first stop to visit her family before setting off. During Roddy's stay, he overhears a conversation that causes him to think Rita had double-crossed him, so he steals the Jammy Dodger. When Rita catches up to him, he clears up the misunderstanding.

The pair evade Spike and Whitey pursuing in a remote-controlled toy boat, with Thimblenose Ted and others on eggbeater jet skis. During this scene, Roddy and Rita share a quick love moment. Incensed at his minions' repeated failures, the Toad sends his French cousin Le Frog and his hench-frogs to go after Roddy and Rita.

Le Frog and his subordinates intercept the duo and retrieve the cable, but Roddy and Rita use a plastic bag to lift themselves out of the drain (snatching away the cable during the ascent) and get Roddy home, though the Jammy Dodger has to be sacrificed. Back home, Roddy pays Rita the promised ruby and an emerald, then proceeds to show her around his house. She at first believes he has family in the home, but noticing his cage, she realizes he's a pet. Roddy tries to pass Sid off as his brother, but Sid and Rita know each other. Rita tries to persuade Roddy to come with her, but he is too proud to admit that he is lonely. By now, they have fallen in love but have not told each other their feelings. She leaves, both of them brokenhearted, but is soon captured by the Toad.

Talking to Sid about half-time, Roddy pieces together Toad's plan. He gives Sid his cushy position and has Sid flush him back to the drains to find Rita and save the city. Together, they defeat The Toad and freeze the wave of sewage generated by the flushing of countless toilets during the FIFA World Cup half-time with liquid nitrogen before it drowns the entire rat population.

Rita and Roddy build the Jammy Dodger Mark Two and set off in her with Rita's entire brood. A newspaper article reveals England had lost on penalties. Rita and Roddy become boyfriend and girlfriend. Later while the credits start, Roddy's former owner returns home with a new pet (a cat), which frightens Sid.

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