Sheep Detectives Has Cute Sheep, Cousin Greg From Succession, and Enough of Hugh Jackman and Emma Thompson To Keep You Entertained

May 2026

 

Hugh Jackman...

And Emma Thompson...

 

What’s not to like...

 

And then there was Cousin Greg from Succession...

 

Playing Cousin Greg from Succession...

 

Nicholas Galitzine...

Fresh from seducing King James in Mary and George......

As that infamous cad, the Duke of Buckingham...

 

And an assorted collection of computer generated sheep...

 

So Sheep Detectives...

 

Was fun enough...

That I was willing to forgive the fact...

 

That for half the film I was confused...

Whether it was set in England...

Or America...

 

Even though the village looked English...

Because the sheep had a wide variety of accents...

 

Some sounded American...

Because Bryan Cranston and Regina Hall were their voices...

 

Patrick Stewart and Bret Goldstein’s sheep had a British accent...

 

And then there was Chris O’Dowd... so his sounded Irish...

 

And, of course, Hugh Jackman is Australian...

Emma Thompson, British...

 

And Greg from Succession tried...

But he mostly still sounded like Greg from Succession...

 

So it was clear they didn’t care enough to hire a dialogue coach...

 

But no matter...

 

The sheep were great...

 

And there was a nice variety...

From Shetland, Merino, Norfolk, an Icelandic Leadersheep...

And my fav.. the Boreray...

 

But let’s be honest here...

 

Sheep really are stupid...

 

A sheep owner I once knew used to regale me with stories about his flock...

And how he had to constantly protect them from their own stupidity...

 

So if verisimilitude mattered...

 

The case would have been solved by a border collie...

Because they are smarter than half the people I know...

 

And the resolution of the mystery at the center of this story...

Was simply ridiculous...

 

I won’t give it away...

 

But let’s just say...

Any woman who has had her hair colored...

Knows that couldn’t have happened...

 

And I didn’t like it that this film has an Old Yeller Problem...

We could have done without that...

 

But... the sheep were charming...

 

So Sheep Detectives is an enjoyable way to spend some time...

 

Especially if you are in the mood for some theater popcorn...

 

And can’t make yourself go see the Super Mario Movie...

 

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