Wallace and Gromit: Three Amazing Adventures
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Actor: Wallace & GromitBrand: Lionsgate Home Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 85 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-12-04
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Lionsgate / HIT Entertainment
Product features:
- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- Animated; Color; Dolby; DVD; Subtitled; Widescreen; NTSC
Movie Reviews of Wallace and Gromit: Three Amazing Adventures
Movie Review: Amazing Isn't Doing These Adventures Justice
Summary: 5 Stars
My journey to W&G fandom is a rare path indeed, beginning with my acquisition of the Ardman/ DreamWorks collaboration feature film Flushed Away. It was scooped up in a binge purchase of CGI animated features and while I enjoyed it well enough, I noticed the special features were packed with references to the stop-motion clay duo that put Ardman and creator Nick Park on the map: Wallace and Gromit.
Nobody seemed to have a negative word to say about the franchise, in fact quite contraire: Many of the personalities interviewed said they came on board the Flushed Away project sheerly out of respect and admiration for Wallace and Gromit. What was this wacky twosome consisting of an absent minded inventor and his silent but super intelligent dog all about anyway? That's what I intended to find out.
Just by luck I happened to order this, Wallace and Gromit: Three Amazing Adventures, which turns out to be a collection of the first three W&G feature films (The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave, and A Grand Day Out), the behind the scenes (and audio commentary) for all three films, all of the Cracking Contraptions shorts (which are spectacular by the way), and two episodes of the Ardman spin-off series Shaun the Sheep. Serendipitously, I selected the ultimate starting point of this wonderful franchise if, for nothing else, it's unrivaled entertainment value.
A Grand Day Out kicks the whole phenomena off with plans of taking a vacation for our inventor and his dog being influenced by a moment of desperation when Wallace runs out of cheese. Remembering that the moon is made entirely out of the stuff, the decision to build a rocket to transport both he and Gromit to the moon so as to replenish his cupboards.
The Wrong Trousers finds Wallace forced to rent out a room in his house due to a lack of funds. A shady penguin becomes their new tenant and in the process, forces Gromit to take up residence in his doghouse. Turns out said penguin is an escaped convict plotting a diamond heist that only Gromit, and the robotic-legged techno-trousers Wallace gave him for his birthday, are up to the task of shutting down.
Lastly A Close Shave opens with Wallace having created a sheep-shearing machine called the Knit-O-Matic, capable of spinning the wool from a sheep right onto the loom. The trouble is a wool shortage causes our tag-team to seek part-time employment in the window washing industry. While on assignment, Wallace finds himself falling for a lonely wool shop owner. When conspiracy begins cropping up involving the sinister dog Preston, Wallace, Gromit and iconic Shaun the Sheep find themselves in a desperate struggle to save both human and sheep-kind.
If plot summaries don't do it justice, rest assured that as far as charming story telling, simple yet engaging plotting, and timeless appeal, these films set the precedent! Advocates of the theory that big budget, highly stylized visuals are a requisite to entertaining animation need look no further to be proven entirely incorrect.
Nick Park displays a simply uncanny knack for capturing the intricacies of life in his modeling. The patience revealed here in the very filmmaking process is absolutely staggering and yet the finished product has such a natural fluidity (laced with genuine humor) that the 30-minute runtimes of each movie fly by while leaving the viewer begging for more. There were moments when returning to the title screen to select the next film were painful enough, the nearly decade-long wait fans had to endure between releases must have been mind boggling!
Being my first encounter with the legendary duo, I think its safe to say that as much as this DVD captures the essence of what makes this material so enduring throughout the years, it also serves as digitally mastered chronicle of Nick Park's ever-increasing sophistication as an animator. As charming as the initial 1989 film, A Grand Day Out is (even after all these years), the technical bar is raised once more in 1993's The Wrong Trousers, which itself pales against 1995's A Close Shave. By the time you enjoy the Cracking Contraptions shorts, it's clear the Ardman/ Nick Park operation was a well-oiled machine. As if all of this weren't convincing enough, this disc contains a nice preview for 2005's Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, which, in case you haven't been paying attention, elevates the formula once again.
Suffice to say, I had no idea of the charm and majesty I had been missing out on in my apparent W&G ignorance. I have been gobbling up as much of Nick Park/ Ardman's material since and this collection here has earned a top position on the entertainment center. Very highly recommended!!
Summary of Wallace and Gromit: Three Amazing Adventures
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?MPAA Rating: NR
?Format: DVD
?Runtime: 85 minutes
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