Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers A Short Film Review

Depending on where you are in the world right now we are either a week away or about two weeks away before the worlds most famous cheese loving inventor and his dog make there grand return. With there being quite a few Wallace And Gromit short films it was for a long time quite hard to pick which one would be the tie in review for Vengeance Most Fowl but then it was announced who the villain of that film is to be and so then join me as I review the film that intruced Wallace and Gromit to there most fearsome feathered foe with the film in question being called simple just "Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when there running low on Wallace lets out a room only for the person renting it to have his own goals in mind. 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 not that bad as this films plot really was just vast imaginative and as crazy and really insane as you'd want it to be the issue is tho is that this film really doesn't go all the way with its central plot and even drops a subplot involving Gromit leaving Wallace because of the fact that he was starting to feel really unwelcome with the plot of this film also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Given that this film was made when they only had one or two voice actors per film starring in this film is Peter Sallis as Wallace. Having not even a handful of speaking characters per short film is a good way to save on money as it means having less characters to animate and it means having less actors to cast in the film and to this films credit it really doesn't need that many characters in it in order to make the film work as all it needs is Wallace and that's really it as the film would run the risk of being bogged down by having to many characters and while having alot of characters is something that works really well for The Curse If The Were-Rabbit as that's a feature length film given that this is only a short film it's a case of less equals more.

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 given that Peter Sallis was a really good actor in his own right is really not all that surprising as he always turned in a really good performance in everything that he was in with the same thing also being true for this film as he is the only actor in this film and as a result of that is the fact that this film really does rest on his performance something that he is more then capable of living up to with the acting that's in this very film also being really helped by the fact that this films script is just so good that all this films actors really have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance really will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

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 and was more then up to the already really high standard that Aardman Animations already have with it being even more impressive when you take into account that this film was quite literally made in a shed as Aardman Animations didn't have any offices at this point in time and yet they still somehow managed to produce a film that has some truly wonderful animation in it.

If you can watch this film on the earliest physical release that you can. As the version of the film that's up on BBC Iplayer is the one where they've changed all of the songs that are playing all throughout the film which isn't a knock on the film itself but given that all of the songs that were used in the original cut of the film were all royalty free songs it really doesn't make sense for Aardman to change them even more so when you take into account that one of the songs that was changed is also a key plot point as its a song that Feathers uses to taunt Gromit and then gets Wallace singing it to himself there really should have been some effort to at least get that song back in the film where it really does belong.

If there's one thing that this film is really well known for then it's it's toy train chase scene. Which is just as wonderful as you'd want to be with Feathers being chased down by our heroes on the toy train that runs all throughout there house with the scene itself being so good that even impressed the then heads at PIXAR when they were making the first ever Toy Story film and it's not hard to see why as the chase scene in this film not only has alot great comedic moments with Wallace being forced to keep his arms and legs close to him when they go underneath the table or the fact that when Wallace tries to grab Feathers he accidentally ends up grabbing the train itself with the chase scene also just being a really fun filled way to end the film as well.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty eight minuets and forty four seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstandard running time for these Wallace And Gromit shorts to have and to this films credit it really does have the right amount there interms of plot to really cover that amount of running time but at the same time tho it would have been nice if the film was just a few minutes longer as that would allow for the makers of the film to not only develop it's plot and jokes a bit more but it would also allow for the makers to develop Feathers McGraw as villain as well but it could also be argued that not knowing all that much about hischaracter is kind if the point of his character but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy film that really does mean 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 the film having alot of really cute moments and while most Americans won't get why the sight gags in this film are funny those of us who live in England and grew up in the nineties will find them to be hilarious and while some of the jokes don't land all that well those that do land really well and are more intense then not some of the best jokes in the while entire film as there just that good and there justcall that funny as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this film is one that is just as good now as it was back in the nineties and while Feathers McGraw isn't as fully developed as he really could have been he still comes across as being a really fearsome foe for the workds most famous cheese loving inventor and his dog 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 really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 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 And Gromit fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very film that I used in this very review being the really great the official Wallace And Gromit fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very film with alot of them being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Wallace And Gromit fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

A Grand Post: Celebrating 40 Years Of Aardman

Hello there animation lovers now you americans might not know this but we in Britain have a famous animation studio and that studio is celebrating being in business for around 40 years you know there works thanks to the likes of Chicken Run , Wallace And Gromit and Creature Comforts but you might not know there name this is all about a little animation studio in Bristol called Aardman.

Aardman animations has been in business since the 70's and the studio has gone from producing 2D animation which was there very first creation as a studio to producing stop-motion which is what they are most famous for and there very first piece of stop motion wasn't for tv or film but for a music video.

In 1986 the studio was commissioned to produce a piece of animation for Peter Gabriel's song Sledgehammer i havn't seen the video for myself so i can't tell you how long there animation is on screen for but i can tell you that it led to more work in music videos which continues to this very day with there latest music video being the song Feels Like Summer by Tim Wheeler which was produced for the Shaun The Sheep Movie soundtrack but Aardman would also make a mark on the world of television thanks to a little brown piece of plastic.

Morph was created for the programme Take Heart and Heartbeat both of which starred artist Tony Heart and was created by Peter Lord who was commissioned to make the character by the BBC because apparently Tony Heart wasn't funny and the producers wanted someone who could make the kids laugh and it worked because Morph has become a british legend spawning several TV series and he is also a favorite of creator Peter Lord who has gone on record as calling Morph his baby.

In 1982 Nick Park started making the film which would become A Grand Day Out and would also introduce people to man and his dog also known as Wallace & Gromit the film took a total of eight years to make since at the start of production it was just Nick on his animating the film frame by frame. That changed when in 1985 Aardman took him on as an animator while at the same time the school that Nick was at would continue to film his passion project since the film was now being animated at Aardman studios this meant that more of the film could be made in a shorter time period.

A Grand Day Out was also one of the first Aardman works to have a voice and that voice came from famed british actor Peter Sallis who has voiced Wallace in all short films and the feature film Sallis was paid £50 for A Grand Day Out that might not be that much now but back in the 80's it was quite alot of money Wallace & Gromit have become an icon of British culture appearing in several short films , there own TV series , a feature film , games and many more but like Wallace & Gromit Nick Park would make another successful series for Aardman.

Creature Comforts originally started as a short film that was released in the late 80's early 90's and thanks to a certain Jaguar has become fairly iconic but what makes this standout from Wallace & Gromit is that the characters are voiced by ordinary British people without a script so the show was completely improvised and the animators would have to animate around would was already being said now unlike Wallace & Gromit which has had several over products Creature Comforts has gone mostly into obscurity only popping out every so often.

Aardman animations have not only made there mark on television but have also made several feature films which have a combined box office receipt of $972.1 million dollars there films include Chicken Run which was there first feature film , Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit ,The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! , Shaun The Sheep The Movie and many more now i know i've missed alot of there works but that's because i wanted to get the most well known works in here and it seems that with at least two more feature films in the works with Early man being directed by Nick Park and a sequel to Shaun The Sheep The Movie right now called Shaun The Sheep The Movie 2 it seems that this little studio will go on forever.