Sheep detective: quite unusual

I remember my nephew's eagerness to watch Sheep detective when it ws about to hit theatres. I don't know what his final diagnosis was, but I certainly found it interesting.

George is a shepherd who's very attentive toward his flock of sheep. He named every single one of them (including a winter lamb, the outcast), give them some weird BLUE medicine and even tells them detective stories. The "dominant" ewe of the flock always guesses who the murderer is... which will be useful since George gets killed. She, along with help from a litteral black sheep (a ram George saved from death matches in a circus) and a sheep who can't forget will try to find the culprit.

First the negative: it is a modern movie with modern tropes: incompetent, oafy males, unusual diversity in a small village and virtue signaling (George is vegetarian and thinks lowly of those who eat meat).

Also, the story has a heroine (the aforementioned ewe). But unlike so many such stories, she's not a girl boss. She does evolve like most heroes, be it toward the flock or, especially, the winter lamb as she learns acceptance from others and even lone wolves (not literal ones).

In short, Sheep detective is a good family movie (yes, despite a murder). The few modern tropes are fortunately not too distracting to take away your attention from the plot and the evolution of the heroine. And the finale had me a little emotional...

Final rating : 3.8/5