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‘Shaun the Sheep Movie’: Be still, my bleating heart

Nobody speaks in the adorable British stop-motion-animation comedy “Shaun the Sheep” movie; instead, they bleat, bark, grunt, squeal, quack, coo — or, if they’re human, mutter something unintelligible. And yet, the storytelling’s captivating. Shaun and his sheep friends, tired of the daily grind at Mossy Bottom Farm, scheme to arrange a day off. Unfortunately, this results in the farmer (whose name is simply The Farmer) heading off to The Big City (i.e. London) in a runaway camper and developing amnesia … which means that the ever-resourceful animals need to save the day.

Shaun, who has his own television series in the U.