when the humans are away, the mouse will play. And so is the case of Roddy (Hugh Jackman) an upper-class and posh mouse from London’s Kensington, accustomed to living in the lap of luxury. That is until a classless-British-bloak-of-a-mouse named Sid (Shane Richie) shows up and decides to take over Roddy’s penthouse by flushing him down the toilet. Suddenly Roddy finds himself trapped in a sewer village resembling London. The jokes are witty and intelligent, the dialog fun, but this is where the story gets a wee bit complicated for small tykes and this is afterall, a kids movie. The first mouse Roddy meets is “Lovely Rita” (Kate Winslet) who needs to escape the clutches of The Toad (Ian McKellen) sort of a Tony Soprano with his thugs, all in search of a red ruby. But it doesn’t stop there, because that would be too easy. Add in the French frogs, the cable wire to flood the city, the poor family of orphaned children and the fact that Roddy doesn’t have a family. And did I mention that the Toad is growing a bunch of microscopic Doctor Evil creatures that will eventually take over his sewer world? Too much to grasp and too fast a movie. Although kids will love the singing slugs, beyond that, it didn’t offer anything special. Computer generation has become as cold as something without the heart and soul of real human actors. Two tiaras
