AOL, DreamWorks promote movie with free online games

DreamWorks Animation is releasing yet another animated movie for kids, "Flushed Away." As a promotion for the movie, America Online and DreamWorks are releasing 24 online games, available for free online now. Each game will each feature a different character and setting. So are these games going to following in the footsteps of Alien Hominid, becoming so popular they make a console version? I doubt it. The history of movie games is not great, and the history of flash games about movies is even worse.

"Flushed Away" is a film that follows the adventures of Roddy, a pampered mouse living the dream life. Things go awry when a sewer rat named Sid shows up to live the life of luxury with Roddy. The mouse plans to take out the rat by flushing him back to the sewers where he came from. Things don't work out for Roddy though, who ends up being flushed down the toilet himself. Roddy then has to make his way back to the surface and blah blah blah. Man, this movie sounds boring.

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