I watched Sheep Detectives with my boyfriend. It's decent. Of course the sheep are all CGI, It looks fine but it would have been much cooler to just cgi the action sequence and to mostly be dubbing julia louis dreyfus and chis o dowd over footage of bemused sheep doing nothing. I strongly suspect watching it with me is insufferable because I kept talking about sheep breeds. I'm hoping this film will be popular and massively improve the markt adoption of British heritage breed wool, especially colour wools like the lovely Moorit main character. I do think the film is a bit too mean to Border Leicesters though. Like I get that from a character design perspective they're tempting to use as the "dumbass" sheep breed but come on. They only LOOK stupid.
I have heard no evidence these border Leicesters aren't just as smart as any other sheep (none)
unfortunately even I wasn't actually able to recognise the main character (Lily) as a shetland sheep because they look so generic, all I really had to go on was the context of what popular wool sheep come in moorit that I don't know by sight. really only recognised the Border Leicesters and the Leicester Longwool. And I was able to look at the Merino sheep (Mopple) and be like "wtf is that???" because Merino's not a British breed it's too cold for them to thrive here imo. I was a little disappointed the French sheep weren't Ramboilliet cos that's the only French breed I know. But obviously the primary disappointment is the lack of Manx Loughtans. the Movie industry just isn't ready for a protagonist power couple that looks like this (male front female back)
It does not escape my notice that all the female characters are poll breeds like the shetland and the BL. Let Women Have Horns!
also did you know 10 percent of male sheep are gay? I did not know that apparently while homosexual behaviour in mammals is common sheep are rare in that they have exclusive homosexual members. I had heard of the "lesbian sheep problem" where the passive sexual role leads to lesbian sheep standing next to each other waiting for the other to mount but sadly none of this made it into the film.
