The annals of cinema history are filled with great movie trilogies — from The Godfather and The Lord Of The Rings to How To Train Your Dragon, Richard Linklater’s Before Trilogy, and Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight triptych. And before this year is through, we may yet have completed another. No, we’re not talking about the release of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Three, but rather Aardman Animation’s Shaun The Sheep: The Beast Of Mossy Bottom! Following the joys of 2014’s Chaplinesque Shaun The Sheep: The Movie and 2019’s extraterrestrial follow-up Farmageddon, ewe-rated stop-motion scares are on their way this Halloween as Shaun and the residents of Mossy Bottom Farm face shear terror… of the decidedly fluffy variety. Check out the trailer below;
A family-friendly Aardman Animation ‘horror’ movie, releasing in the legendary studio’s 50th anniversary year, with Shaun The Sheep front and centre? We don’t know about you, but that sounds pretty un_bleat_able to us. Having already nailed the spooky season/fluffy monster/all ages silliness combo once before with the Oscar winning Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit, the Bristolian animation studio is returning to familiar territory with The Beast Of Mossy Bottom — albeit this time with a mad scientist sheep for a lead, and an altogether more unknowable claymated creature running amok. The movie’s official synopsis confirms that Mossy Bottom sees “the residents of Mossy Bottom Farm looking forward to Halloween – until the clumsy Farmer trashes the Flock’s beloved pumpkin patch! When Shaun turns mad scientist to fix the problem, things rapidly spiral out of control… With The Farmer missing and a wild beast roaming the woods of Mossingham, all the ingredients are in place for a monstrously fun family adventure.”
Written by Mark Burton (Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, Paddington in Peru, Shaun The Sheep Movie) and Giles Pilbrow (Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas), and directed by The Flight Before Christmas‘ Steve Cox with co-director Matthew Walker (Lloyd Of The Flies), The Beast Of Mossy Bottom has no shortage of thumby and funny craftspeople at its helm. We’ll find out whether it’s woolly good stuff, simply ovine, or a baad idea when Shaun The Sheep: The Beast Of Mossy Bottom rams UK cinemas on 18 September. (Sorry not sorry for all of the sheep puns.)
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