Shaun the Sheep - UFO Alert

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Movie
German title Shaun the Sheep - UFO Alert
Original title A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 2019
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 0
Rod
Director Will Becher ,
Richard Phelan
script Mark Burton ,
Jon Brown
production Paul Kewley
music Tom Howe
camera Charles Copping
cut Sim Evan-Jones
chronology

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Shaun the Sheep - The Movie

Shaun the Sheep - UFO-Alarm (original title: A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon ) is a British stop-motion -Animations science fiction comedy film made in 2019 , that of Aardman Animations is produced. It is a sequel to Shaun the Sheep (2015), both based on the television series Shaun the Sheep , which is a spin-off of the Wallace & Gromit film Unter Schafen (1995).

The story focuses on Shaun and the herd as they encounter a cute alien with extraordinary powers who crashes near Mossy Bottom Farm and must soon find a way to return to his home. The film is directed by Will Becher and Richard Phelan.

action

In a forest near the tranquil Mossy Bottom - observed by a man with his dog - an alien spaceship lands, whose passengers end up on the Mossy Bottom Farm in search of something to eat. There Shaun the sheep has the first contact with the alien and quickly realizes that the alien wants to go back to his spaceship and so the alien LU-LA and Shaun set off for Mossy Bottom.

In the meantime, a government agency has started an investigation based on testimony with the aim of tracking down the spaceship and passenger. The team around Agent Red and the robot Muggins reached the landing site, but could not spot the spaceship and withdrew disappointed. In a later flashback, the viewer learns that Agent Red watched two aliens at her parents' house as a child and was laughed at by her classmates for this; from then on she pursued the goal of proving the existence of aliens and catching them.

Shortly after the team leaves, Shaun and the alien arrive in Mossy Bottom, where the alien first strengthens himself in a supermarket and devastates it as much as possible due to a sugar shock. The final epic burp of the alien triggers another alarm in the headquarters of the special unit, which then moves out again.

Meanwhile, Shaun and the alien find the spaceship, which was hidden under a camouflage shield, and enter it. The attempt to start it fails, however, because the key that the alien lost when leaving the spaceship in the forest is missing. In the spaceship it also turns out that the alien is actually an alien girl named LU-LA who accidentally started the spaceship while playing at night while her parents slept.

Since the camouflage shield has been lifted, the employees of the government agency can find the spacecraft this time, load it on a trailer and transport it to a secret base. LU-LA and Shaun can steal the key that the robot Muggins discovered in the forest from Agent Red, use a few tricks to outsmart the incompetent employees and finally, at the last moment, escape with the spaceship through the closing gate of the base. LU-LA, Shaun and Bitzer, who had meanwhile smuggled on board and accidentally got into a bedroom, are already in space and on their way to the home planet of the alien girl when Shaun triggers a change of course due to an accident. The spaceship returns to Earth and crash-lands near Mossy Bottom Farm.

There the farmer has meanwhile built a kind of UFO amusement park (“Farmageddon”) in order to benefit financially from the great UFO and alien hysteria. Since the robot Muggins could at least partially hold on to the UFO, Agent Red now knows LU-LA's whereabouts and also rushes to the farm. There LU-LA realizes that she will be stuck on earth forever, since the spaceship has been completely destroyed and there is no way to return to her home planet. However, Shaun discovers some kind of intergalactic baby monitor in the rubble, with which he tries to send a signal. On the display, however, he can see that the signal strength is insufficient. So he decides to climb a tower that the farmer built in connection with his amusement park and is accompanied by LU-LA.

Agent Red, who has meanwhile arrived at the farm, transforms her vehicle into a kind of combat robot and climbs the tower with it. There it comes to the showdown, which - after the signal has been transmitted - ends with Agent Red climbing out of the ruins of her transformer and having to watch LU-LA being picked up by her parents MI-MA and BO-BO. In these she recognizes the aliens that she saw as a child and makes her peace with LU-LA and her parents and friends.

LU-LA says goodbye to their newfound friends and heads back home with their parents.

production

On September 14, 2015, StudioCanal announced that it was working with Aardman on a sequel. On October 25, 2016, Aardman confirmed under the working title Shaun the Sheep - The Movie 2 that a sequel would go back into production in January 2017 with Richard Starzak, co-director of the first film.

As of November 2018, it was announced that Aardman employees Richard Phelan and Will Becher will co-direct and Starzak will continue to direct as Peter Lord and David Sproxton give employees the majority of ownership rights to keep the company independent.

In January 2018, it was announced that the film's teaser would be ready to go to theaters worldwide ahead of the other Aardman film, Early Man, to reveal the movie's new title and synopsis. On December 7, 2018, Aardman announced on social media that the teaser trailer for the film would be released along with the release dates the following week. The teaser trailer was released on December 11, 2018, followed by the first official trailer, which was released on April 1, 2019.

Shaun the Sheep - UFO Alert premiered in London on September 22, 2019 and was released in the United Kingdom on October 18, 2019. In Germany, the film opened in cinemas on September 26, 2019.

Awards

Allusions

There are several allusions in the film to films and TV series that feature extraterrestrials. You can see LU-LA running through the stable like the aliens in Signs by M. Night Shyamalan , sounds from the X-Files theme by Mark Snow open a secured door, a dumpster flies similar to the bicycle scene in ET - The Extra Terrestrial Before Along the full moon and the background music include a. the beginning of the symphonic poem Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss and excerpts from the Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss (both pieces are part of the 2001 soundtrack : A Space Odyssey ) as well as the famous sequence of notes from the film Uncanny Encounters of the Third Kind .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Shaun the Sheep - UFO alarm . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Age rating for Shaun the sheep - UFO alert . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Kate Erbland: 'A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon' First Trailer: Aardman's Beloved Flock Goes to Space. In: IndieWire. December 11, 2018, accessed September 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Complete list of allusions , article at cinestar.de. Retrieved June 12, 2020