2021 · animation · comedy · family
Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas
Directed by Steve Cox30m2021
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?
Our read: Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas (2021) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · comedy · family entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
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