Watched: 05/16/2026
Format: Regal Westgate
Viewing: First
Director: Kyle Balda
The Sheep Detectives (2026) was not at all what I expected. And that is, as it turns out, a pretty good thing.
Now, don't get me wrong - I was looking forward to what I thought the movie would be: a goofy play on detective fiction but with, you know, a lot of sheep puns and some wacky celebrity voices. That seemed plenty for a matinee Saturday movie.
Instead, I got an oddly moving movie that I suspect speaks more to some realities of being a living thing - and which illuminates the ways we (people, not sheep - you may need to stretch here, concrete-thinking reviewers) deal with pain and death. And, yes, from the mouths of CGI sheep.
