The Sheep Detectives
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyZI5oM6hWk
With ‘The Sheep Detectives’, I was most definitely expecting the cute. And I got it. What I WASN’T expecting was the clever, which this family feature certainly was. And I really, really didn’t expect to receive the emotional, but the weep-inducing heft that this baby delivered…yeah, okay, I left a little verklempt.
Put it all together, and ‘The Sheep Detectives’ is not only one of the most delightful surprises of the early summer movie season – but maybe one of the best we’ll see all year long.
Hugh Jackman gets top billing as George Hardy, the sheep farmer who tenderly cares for a colorful flock of sheep in the quiet, unassuming English countryside…..although his performance is one notch above a cameo. Reason being, poor George is killed off early in this story, discovered early one morning in front of his caravan. And with local police officer Tim Derry (Nicholas Braun) leaning towards the ‘bumbling, stumbling’ category, even though a host of prime suspects for the crime emerge, it’s up to the sheep themselves to solve the murder. After all, with George having read the flock bedtime whodunit’s for years, the wooly critters have a knack for putting the puzzle pieces together.
