The story of an uptown rat that gets flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment, ending in the sewers of London, where he has to learn a whole new and different way of life.
Barry Humphries, Stellan Skarsgård, Michael Wincott, Kevin Kline, Jim Broadbent, and Johnny Depp were considered for the role of Le Frog.
Mother:
Car's here.
Father:
It's nine o' clock already, we're going to miss our flight.
When the World Cup match is on, it says England are playing, but the flag on the screen is the Union flag which is for the United Kingdom, not England.
There is a scene in the closing credits: Roddy's owners return to their apartment with a pet cat, to Sid's horror.
Then the Tom Jones song "What's New Pussycat?" plays over the closing credits.
Distributors choose to remove mild language from the film after an advice viewing from the BBFC suggested that it would not be acceptable for a U rating. As a result, words such as "bloody" and "bugger" were replaced with "blinkin'" and "bother". After the changes had been made, the BBFC passed the film with a U rating.
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$149,000,000 (estimated)
$18,814,323 5 November 2006
$64,665,672
$178,281,554