Wallace & Gromit are two characters that are son engraved in not only UK pop culture but also in pop culture in general. With alot of people around the world knowing of the cheese loving inventor and his dog and well I thought that i'd take a look back at what many myself included consider to be really there greatest ever short film and see if it still holds up really well all of these many years and so then join me as I review the film that proved that Wallace & Gromit really were alot more then just one hit wonders with the film in question being called simply just "The Wrong Trousers" enjoy.
The plot of the film is when their running out of money Wallace lets out his spare room to a mysterious lodger who will test our heroes like they've never been tested before. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good with this film plot being just as enjoyable as you'd want it to be and just as as engaging as you really want it to be with this films plot also being alot better then that of their previous short film as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is Peter Sallis as Wallace what I really love about these first two Wallace & Gromit short films. Is the fact that it's mostly just one person acting all throughout the entire which means that the films script has to be good as there's no other actor there to cover up for any mistakes in the scripts and it also means that the acting in each of the films also has to be really good as well for the exact same reason and also because of the fact that the entire film rests on their performance which means that if that one person can't deliver a good performance then the whole thing just falls apart and this is something that the early shorts understood as it means that everybody has to be on their A game and while I will have a special place in my heart for all of the shorts and feature length films I will always look back on the first two shorts because of the fact that everybody is on their A game.
Now then interms of what I personally thought /felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. Which really shouldn't come as that much of a surprise as the only cast member in this film is a really good actor and as such it makes sense that he would turn in a really good performance in this film as well with this really being helped by the fact that the films script is just so good that all the actor in this film has to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out him alot more naturally.
Doing the animation for this film is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Aardman Animations. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good which is nothing new for anything by Aardman Animations as all of their projects even there bad ones have some really good animation in them with this film being no exception as there alot of standout scenes where the animation just looks fantastic with the animation in this film holding up really well all of these years later.
The villains plan in this film really doesn't make that much as they have no reason to have the need to control Wallace at all. As there whole entire plan revolves around them being able to control and yet they have no need to do so as they very easily could have just stolen the trousers themselves and committed the crime that way or they could have just walked right in through the front door of the building that they were robbing and robbed them that way infact having Wallace be involved in the crime only creates more witnesses to the crime as now we have both Wallace and Gromit acting as witnesses and who know who the villain actually as and as seen in this film actually take steps to make sure that the villain remains behind bards all of which could have been avoided if the villain just really found another way of stealing the jewel that they were going to rob.
For those of you that don't know the villain of this film is Feathers Mcgraw who is a penguin that Wallace lets his spare room out to. I really did like this villain as he was pretty smart as he knew that in order to get Wallace on his own in order to commit his crime in the first place he had to split him up from Gromit and that's the first thing that he sets about doing when he moves into the house and when he does that he knows that his chosen method to commit this crime will need some heavy machinery and that's exactly what he uses the wrong trousers but at the same time he also really underestimates both Wallace and Gromit which does eventual lead to his really hilarious downfall which is just a joy tom see to play out as he really was an entertaining main villain.
This film is just as ridiculous as you'd want it to be with the film having such an over the top the plot and characters that you really do buy in to it. This adds to the films overall charm as you never really know what it is that's going to be coming next as it could be something that oddly makes sense like Gromit going to check the post or something that's just so out there that you have no choice but to laugh at it like Feathers using measuring tape to climb up the side of a building all of which makes the film really charming and while there are something things that could improved upon like the fact that Wallace and Gromit don't really spend alot of time together any change it's showing the film as it is that makes the film as charming as it is with the film also being something that both kids and parents can enjoy as well to this very day.
Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly thirty minuets and nineteen seconds. This is a rather solid running time as the film has more then enough plot to cover this rather large amount of running time and while I would have liked it if the film was longer as the film is just so good it would have been stretching the films plot beyond breaking point as alot of the scenes that would be needed to stretch the film out to longer running time would be nothing more then filler scenes and would nothing to the overall plot of the film but with the films current running time every single scenes has to be about advancing the films plot and that's only something that the film can do with it's current running time and really not with a much more longer running time but I will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With all of this films jokes not only landing but landing hard ad getting a big laugh out of me with this mostly being the fact that the film ha jokes that alot of British people only will get which does make sense as the film was made in Britain and while there are jokes in this film that people outside of Britain will understand there are really alot more jokes that you will only really understand if you were born or lived through Britain in the nineteen nineties in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall out of all of the short films that Wallace & Gromit have been in this one is quite easily the best one as it really did set the standard for what a Wallace & Gromit should be like in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that means that means that this very film earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 9 out of 10 from me,
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Wallace &Gromit fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episodes that I used in this very review being the official Wallace & Gromit fandom wiki page simply just due to the fact that alot of the images that are on the official Wallace & Gromit fandom wiki page are all really fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.