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.

Thirty Years Of Wallace And Gromit A Look Back At The World's Most Famous Man And Dog

Well then this is something that really did sneak up on us then didn't it thirty years ago a man and his dog landed on the moon and in the process stole our hearts. Ladies and gents as you might have guessed from the title thirty years ago this year Wallace And Gromit first debuted on UK screens and well since I like many of you grew up with the famous duo I thought that i'd take a look back at what they've been up as well as possibly tease you with their future.

As we all know the duo's first short film was called A Grand Day out and even tho it was released in 1989 it was first being made five years earlier in 1982. That's because the film started out as a film school project for creator and British animation legend Nick Park it was during that final year at film school that he invited Aardman founders Peter Lord and David Sproxton to give a talk at his school which they did and sometime later while still not having finished A Grand Day Out Nick was invited by the duo to finish the film at Aardman Studios to which both he and the school agreed to do.

Over the years the duo would star in four short films each around thirty minuets in length but in 2005 the duo went Hollywood. Altho this wasn't the first feature done by Aardman Animations that honour goes to Chicken Run it was their first film in which characters from the public already knew and loved and I have to say that i'm a huge fan of this film and I honestly that it's a must watch for any Aardman and Wallace And Gromit fan.

The duo have also been known to have an influence in the real world as well because in the early nineties Wensleydale cheese was about to close down due to poor sales. That all changed tho when the Wallace And Gromit shorts started because Wallace loves cheese and the cheese he loved the most is Wensleydale and due to those shorts being so popular the factory making them was saved and has been going strong every since in fact in 2005 when The Curse Of Were-Rabbit was being released Wensleydale sales went up again by twenty three percent.

Now i'm sorry if this post seems all over the place I didn't plan on doing it in fact I didn't even know it was there anniversary year but bare with me. I'd say that the most well known of the four short films is The Wrong Trousers and I say that because both The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave won OSCARS and honestly it's not hard to see why because it is a fun short film with a ton of jokes and a great plot.

In fact there's a scene in this short that is actually quite well known and that's the capture of the villain Feathers Mcgraw. If i'm right that whole sequence starting with him flying and ending up with him landing in the milk bottle won an award for every single frame and it's the one scene that alot of people think of when they think of Wallace And Gromit and this is the one short film that they think of as well.

Now then this is something that not alot of people know about but there was a few Wallace And Gromit TV series the first being called Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions which was a series of ten episodes with each length being up to three minuets and would show some of the duo's other inventions. The second was called Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention which would show of inventions in the real world and would feature the duo in a side plot which would tie into the theme of the episode.

The duo also kind of did a concert and I say kind of because it was done for BBC Proms and it was called Wallace & Gromit's Musical Marvels and it's also known as Wallace & Gromit at the Proms.  To be frank there's no real reason for anyone to watch this unless your a fan of the music there is kind of a plot about Wallace composing a piece of music but that's really it it's nothing really that special and that's all I can say about it.

As with anything popular there's a spin off series that's right ladies and gents Shaun The Sheep is a Wallace And Gromit spin off since the character of Shaun was first introduced in A Close Shave. The character and the show proved to be so popular that it not only spawned it's own spin off Timmy Time but also a feature film with a second one just being released so technically there's a Wallace And Gromit Cinematic Universe out there.

The duo have also made it a habit of appearing in many comic books over the years and since i've never even heard of the comic books I can't say if there any good or not. I can say that a 2005 comic book did sort of act as a sequel to the feature film which is kind of cool and from 2010 to 2013 the characters would appear daily in a comic strip published in The Sun newspaper and I have no idea why the strip was cancelled either but it's good to see that the characters are still going strong.

Now then we've seen where the characters have been and it was while doing to quick and I do mean quick research for this post that I came across this post from this year. It looks like we might be getting some new Wallace And Gromit content within the next five years I must stress that the post doesn't say if this means a new feature film or a new short film it just means that we can expect to see our favourite cheese loving inventor and his dog sometime soon.