A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2020)

[petrea_mitchell]

It's not quite up to the standard of the first Shaun the Sheep movie. But I put the first movie on my Hugo nominating ballot, so we're still talking a pretty good movie.

It seems like I'm approximately the last person to have learned that it went direct to Netflix, but if you have Netflix, and haven't seen it yet, it's a fun little feel-good movie that can take your mind off these dark times for an hour and a half. It's also chock full of TV and movie sf references, ranging in subtlety from obscure ones tucked into the corner of the frame to "how did that not result in a cease-and-desist order".

Highly recommended to all my sf fan friends.

Comments

[delosharriman]

Is this the "abducted by aliens" movie I was seeing posters for everywhere in Munich last fall?

[petrea_mitchell]

If it showed stop-motion animated farm animals being abducted, then probably. IIRC the teaser trailer showed something similar. (That's not really what happens in the movie, though.)