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The Sheep Detectives (2026)

Mystery | 109 minutes

Genre: Mystery / Comedy

Duration: 109 minuten

Alternative titles: De Schapenspeurders / Bèèèèh: Het Mysterie van de Wei

Country: Ireland / United Kingdom / United States

Directed by: Kyle Balda

Stars: Hugh Jackman, Nicholas Braun and Nicholas Galitzine

IMDb score: 7,4 (76.308)

Releasedate: 30 April 2026

The Sheep Detectives plot

"A new breed of mystery."

George Hardy is a shepherd who loves his sheep and raises them solely for their wool. Every night, he reads a murder mystery aloud, pretending his sheep can understand it. Little does he know that not only do they understand, but they then argue for hours about who the killer is. When George is found dead under mysterious circumstances, the sheep immediately realize it was murder and think they know everything about how to solve it.

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mrklm

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When it turns out that village police officer [Nicholas Braun] is completely unfit to investigate the death of friendly shepherd George [Hugh Jackman] in a proper manner, sheep Lily [Julia Louis-Dreyfus] and Mopple [Chris O'Dowd] attempt to solve the case. In doing so, they draw on knowledge gained during the many times George read them detective novels. An attempt to revive the magic of Babe fails because Balda uses visual effects to make sheep do things they cannot. Also due to the many caricatured characters, the mystery is not particularly interesting, but there is a surprisingly moving resolution. Fine fodder for children; parents could use their time better.

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scorsese

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Good film in which a flock of sheep goes in search of their shepherd's murderer. A typical British whodunit (apart from the talking sheep, that is). Entertaining characters in both the human and sheep worlds. Performed by a fine (voice) cast. The talking sheep are clearly CGI, but it still looks good. Entertaining from start to finish and quite funny. Easily 3.5 stars.

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blurp194

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So God is a big invisible lamb beaver made of bread?

Yes. And they eat him on Sundays.

The whodunnit really isn't my genre—that dusty and dull business of yet another BBC series, or even worse, a serious film based on the same story. Just to keep it in context, even a sheep knows how it ends, meh.

So I didn't really have particularly high expectations for this film. Then the surprise is all the more delightful when it all turns out to be brilliantly fun, when the few human actors are exactly in their place, and those created by the computer are almost even better. And not only that, the story makes sense, the timing is right, it is vibrant, it is alive, it is funny and witty and entertaining, and sometimes all at the same time. The film plays wonderfully with the traditional whodunit, being both a textbook example of that genre itself and a parody of it.

A whole host of famous actors provide the voices, but it never occurred to me for a moment to pay attention to the details—the sheep have enough character that you hear the sheep itself, not the person behind them. It is somewhat along the lines of how you don't immediately wonder who did Paddington's voice in those films either, and that is not the only point on which you can make that comparison, by the way.

The only point of criticism I can think of is that, yes indeed, Emma Thompson is irritating with her role. I never thought I would be able to write something like that, but it is really true. She has a supporting role, but apparently that doesn't really register with her or the director. She is, however, the only A-list actor who holds out in person for the title role; Jackman actually has barely more than a cameo to do.

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