Wallace and Gromit

[lhb412]

I've been meaning to see these for years, ever since I watched the feature film version, Curse of the Were-Rabbit. I finally got the nifty (and very reasonably priced) Blu Ray that contains all four Wallace and Gromit short films and all the mini-episodes as well.

The first film, A Grand Day Out, is really just a primer. It started out as a student film, but the second and third films, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave are two of the best cartoons I've ever seen, and I've seen many! They're really incredible. The latest film, A Matter of Loaf and Death is rather good, too. But I feel it's a bit too busy, wheras Trousers and Shave have a rather elegant simplicity to them: starting out with a slow, leisurely pace and then building and building untill you get to a frenzied finally. Loaf (made after they'd done a few feature films and as such had become a well-oiled, stop-motion machine) bombards us with activity from the get go, and I think doesn't work as well.

[metal_bryan]

Trousers and Shave are the best for me too. I fondly remember when I first saw both of them.

[lhb412]

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Wallac ... nced/16387

This new Wallace and Gromit hosted documentary series is coming to US Blu-Ray and DVD. That's cool - but what I really want is Were-Rabbit in HD!

[Rody]

Wallace and Gromit was major television material for me, especially The Wrong Trousers. I loved that video so much (Feathers McGraw FTW!).

I thoroughly enjoyed Curse of the Were-Rabbit and A Matter of Loaf and Death as well - and how about those invention shorts on the DVDs?

[lhb412]

^They're included on the Blu-Ray set of the shorts.