For the big-brained talking sheep of director Kyle Balda (Despicable Me 3, Minions: The Rise of Gru, Minions) and writer Craig Mazin (The Last of Us, Chernobyl, The Hangover Parts II-III)'s adaptation of German author Leonie Swann’s 2005 novel Three Bags Full, The Sheep Detectives, heaven and hell don’t exist. Neither does purgatory nor its equivalent. Instead, the sheep fervently believe not in death or dying per se, but in being reborn as clouds. It’s a comforting fiction they willingly embrace. Anything else, including the reality of sheep-as-food for human consumption, isn’t a reality they can face, let alone embrace. Heavy thematically, no doubt, especially for a film marketed as an all-ages, family-oriented film, but it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone familiar...
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