If you fell in love with the singing slugs and Roddy the Rat’s Tom Jones-style crooning while watching .nightsandweekends.com/articles/06/NW0600494.php>Flushed Away, you’ll be happy to know that you can pick up a copy of the film’s soundtrack and have the slugs serenade you—with songs about maggots or even a fabulous cover of “Mr. Lonely”—anytime you want.
The Flushed Away soundtrack isn’t your typical animated movie soundtrack, filled with sappy, dramatic themes and slow, inspiring pop songs. Instead, like the movie, the soundtrack is fun and a little bit campy. You might even call it spunky. Besides a few tracks by the slugs (though, if you ask me, there could have been more songs by the slugs), you’ll find everything from Tina Turner’s “Proud Mary” to Fatboy Slim’s “Wonderful Night”—even “Yakety Sax” by Boots Randolph. And, of course, there are a couple of Tom Jones hits (“She’s a Lady” and “What’s New Pussycat?”)—sung by the man himself instead of by Hugh Jackman’s Roddy. It’s a pretty random collection of songs—but they’re sure to put a smile on your face and a spring in your step.
If you haven’t already seen Flushed Away, the soundtrack probably won’t make a whole lot of sense to you. Without the visuals, it’s actually somewhat difficult to differentiate the slugs from Alvin and the Chipmunks. And, to the uninitiated listener, the random assortment of modern favorites mixed in with Tom Jones classics (not to mention the song about maggots) might be rather perplexing. But if you’ve seen the movie (and you loved it as much as I did), the soundtrack will bring all of the movie’s best moments rushing right back. It’s the perfect thing to keep in the car to wake you up for your morning commute—and it’ll give you a decent Flushed Away fix while you wait for the movie to come out on DVD.
Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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