Review: ‘Sheep Detectives’ Unearth Clues to Good Family Entertainment

This mob of talking sheep and celebrities really raises the baa

With Hugh Jackman, Emma Thompson and the voices of Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Bryan Cranston, The Sheep Detectives is the family film of the year.

Review: ‘Sheep Detectives’ unearth clues to good family entertainment

You can’t pull the wool over all sheep’s eyes. In the charming mystery, “The Sheep Detectives,” a flock of them work together to figure out who killed their owner.

'The Sheep Detectives' Made Me Baaaawl My Eyes Out

Earlier this spring, when I saw the trailer for The Sheep Detectives, I had what I have come to understand is a universal experience. When I watched Hugh Jackman, a kindly shepherd named George, read murder mysteries to his impressively realistic animated flock of sheep, I found this premise odd but charming. When I learned that George was murdered, his flock suddenly tasked with solving the crime, I found this baffling. When I saw Emma Thompson…

‘The Sheep Detectives’—baaaaaaaad - Tooele Transcript Bulletin

Perhaps I should not be confessing this to anyone except a therapist, and already I’m watching my credibility as a film critic vanish before my eyes, but I have always had a soft spot for live-action movies featuring talking animals. What can I say—I was a 2000s baby that grew up with the likes of “Beverly Hills Chihuahua,” “Cats & Dogs,” and “Babe”—who wouldn’t choose the superpower of talking to animals after watching those silly adventure sto…