I was lucky enough to go to the Premiere of Flushed Away at Leicester Square last week. It's hard to follow acts like Wallace and Grommit and Shrek but Flushed Away is another great classic in my humble opinion. The main character is voiced by Hugh Jackman and is modelled on a bit of a Bond figure which is rather amusing as it was rumoured that Hugh Jackman was being considered for the role as James Bond which was won by Daniel Craig!

Flushed Away is fast paced and very funny, with some brilliant gags and plain funny jokes. It's got a pretty cool soundtrack too. Watch out for the high speed chase to the track by The Dandy Warhols. Works a treat.

There are also some well established 'creature comfort' characters, namely the slugs that really do steal the whole show with their antics (including 'the scream', 'running' and 'singing'). Go watch it, it's a lot of fun.

I attended a Q&A session later with Hugh Jackman and two of the writers which was equally hilarious, it's hard to think that it took them 5 years to make Flushed Away, that's a long time to stay focused, certainly makes you appreciate all the hard work involved! But I think the upside of spending 5 years on a project is that you get to rewrite, tweak things and perfect them. Flushed away has an interesting and touching storyline, thought out characterisations that are so easy to buy into, one almost feels sorry for the villain (the Toad)when one hears his sob story of why and how he came to hate rats! Excellent.