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I can\u2019t imagine that I\u2019m the only person who, after seeing Wicked: For Good, said to themselves, \u201cYou know what, I\u2019m done looking at CGI animals.\u201d Not to go full-blown Republican, but whatever happened to having a real physical animal onscreen and dubbing their dialogue like they used to do on Mister Ed? (I\u2019m in my 30s, by the way.) No more whatever\u2019s going on in Strays, no more Robert Downey Jr. Dolittle. The CGI animals are scary, and we don\u2019t need to be seeing more of them in a world that\u2019s scary enough as is. It\u2019s time to return to the halcyon days of extremely talented animal actors, like Messi, the dog from Anatomy of a Fall. If the animals are not as good at acting as Messi, they don\u2019t deserve to be in movies. This was my hard-and-fast belief \u2014 up until the trailer for The Sheep Detectives<\/a> was released on December 18.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Maybe the fundamental issue with CGI animals is that they\u2019re just not up to anything very interesting. Either they\u2019re a vehicle for making crude jokes or tricking us into some kind of bizarre verisimilitude. In The Sheep Detectives, however, the CGI sheep are solving a murder mystery. That\u2019s genius: The CGI animals have a job to do. Unfortunately for this flock, their beloved shepherd, played by Hugh Jackman \u2014 who reads them murder mysteries before bed every night \u2014 has been murdered, and they\u2019re the critters most equipped to solve the case. The Sheep Detectives boasts an impressive supporting cast, including Emma Thompson, Nicholas Braun (playing British? okay), Molly Gordon, and Nicholas Galitzine. But let\u2019s be honest: We\u2019re all just in it to see these fake sheep solve a mystery. Perhaps most bafflingly, The Sheep Detectives was written by Craig Mazin, of Chernobyl and The Last of Us fame, suggesting he really needed a pick-me-up after doing those two shows. Can you blame him? These guys, by which I mean the sheep who are solving a murder mystery, will arrive in theaters on May 8, 2026, just in time for shearing season.<\/p>\n Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I can\u2019t imagine that I\u2019m the only person who, after seeing Wicked: For Good, said to themselves, \u201cYou…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,195328,101452,134,36597,195327,344,44,153273,25656,127006,195329],"class_list":["post-356738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cgi-animals","tag-comedy-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-hugh-jackman","tag-movie-trailers","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-nicholas-galitzine","tag-sheep","tag-the-sheep-detectives","tag-what-the-flock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}