First and foremost - I do not like Agatha Christie books. I just don't. There's a reason why I stated this.
The movie is very much Agatha Christie coded. That's fine since the premise is that the shepherd reads the sheep books very much in the Agatha Christie style. Given that it should be pretty obvious that I wouldn't like the movie. And I didn't like the movie.
There's lots of CGI sheep with some celebrity voice actors, who aren't really noticeable as to who they are. To me that's a slap in the face for voice actors but hey, what do I know? Except that this movie spent a lot of money on celebrities when they got no real return from them.
The bungling police officer was flat out annoying. Seriously. They swung the pendulum way too far to make him ineffective. I can suspend disbelief but this was a bridge too far. An inexperienced police officer in a small village isn't going to be doing a murder investigation without experienced help. Maybe that's just me but if I were part of that village I'd be screaming for them to get a real detective in there.
As with all Agatha Christie stories there's the cast of potential murders, etc. In this case there's also CGI sheep who are working to solve the crime. They end up dropping clues in front of the police officer's face to move the story along.
There's also a substory about discrimination but that's kind of a distraction. There's no value in it nor does it have a darn thing to do with the story itself.
Anyway. Everyone's potential motives and secrets are revealed, the police officer stumbles along the path the sheep provide, the murder is exposed after the steps they took to disguise themselves. Yippee.
It's not a bad movie. It's just not a good one for me. I didn't like much of anything about it, to be honest.
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