Flushed Away (Music from the Motion Picture) is the soundtrack album to the 2006 DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Animations film Flushed Away directed by David Bowers and Sam Fell. The soundtrack was released under the EMI and Astralwerks record labels on the occasion of Halloween (31 October) 2006 and featured 15 songs including dialogues and musical performances from the cast that performed successful covers and original score composed by Harry Gregson-Williams.
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Reception
Heather Phares of AllMusic called it an "enjoyable, but not particularly ambitious, collection". Ben Simon of Animated Views wrote "Harry Gregson-Williams brings a bright and involving score to proceedings, which sometimes sounds reminiscent of other works (the main theme plays very close to one from John Williams’ music for Hook), but carries the action along with panache and certainly adds a layer of epic-ness. Flushed Away is also one of the few animated films of recent times to use source tracks and re-recorded cover versions extremely well within its soundtrack and not just as an excuse for filling a noise crack to suggest an action sequence more frantic than it actually is." Timothy Wheeler of Catholic Exchange wrote that "the soundtrack crams in a few too many pop hits". Nyk Zietari of Eye for Film said that the film "benefits from an excellent soul/rock soundtrack, blessedly Disney free".
Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes:
Soundtrack producer – Errol Kolosine, Lisa Wohl
Executive soundtrack producer – Sunny Park
Music coordinator – Charlene Huang, Julie Imboden Keel, Ken "Kaz" Smith, Robert Vasquez, Vince Villanueva
Mastering and compilation – Dave Donnelly
Project manager – Ashley Warren
Art direction and design – Unknown Graphic Services
Music clearance – Julie Butchko, Kevin Carson, Tonya Puerto
Music business affairs – David Tockman, Lenny Wohl, Lori Blackstone
Executive in charge of music – Cynthia Sexton