Wordiezett So much average

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Micransix Crappy film

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

classicsoncall This was my first Wallace and Gromit film short and by the looks of other reviewers here, it might be I picked the best of the bunch to start with. I thought it entertaining enough but don't think it merits it's high rating on IMDb. What I look for in animated films are the sight gags and clever one liners, so I got a kick out of Gromit reading 'Crime and Punishment' by Fido Dogstoyevsky. Once freed from jail, Gromit takes on the appearance of Snoopy in the cockpit of the Sopwith Camel when he takes to the skies to free the sheep. But to get arrested for killing sheep in the first place, well that's a bit hard to take for a canine cartoon hero. What fascinates me most about the picture is that it's done in Claymation, which requires the utmost patience and precision to make the picture flow so evenly. To be honest, I would not have selected this film to watch on my own, but it appears on an IMDb Top 250 list as I work my way back through the years of collecting the data. I'll also be watching the two earlier W&G selections as well, but for me it's more of a completist exercise to watch and review all the top rated movies. This short convinces me that IMDb ultimately made the right decision to limit their Top 250 to live action and feature length animated movies.

O2D I have no idea what I have just seen.After the first two Wallace and Gromit shorts I had high expectations for the third.I couldn't have been more disappointed.For some reason W & G are window cleaners this time.By the time you stop thinking about that, it's too late to just turn it off.Wallace falls in love with the owner of a wool shop whose windows they clean.Her name is Wendolene Ramsbottom and I'm not sure how I feel about that.On one hand I get that it's a genius joke, naming her after a window cleaning product and an animal that is similar to a sheep.At the same time it doesn't make any sense because she doesn't clean windows and no one gets wool from rams.Maybe I'm over thinking her name but it's the most interesting thing about this short.My least favorite thing about this is that they take the newspaper joke from The Wrong Trousers and use it to death, without it ever being funny.I heard they made a Shaun The Sheep movie and I shudder to think what it may be like.Kids might enjoy this but it's definitely not for everyone.Anyone over 10 should pass on this.

saxbytim Cracking film! What a film! The film is amazing and funny. Very British. People who can't understand the accent and says its Canadian, are just dumb. Like come on, the film's set in England, does not take a Wallace to figure out where the film is set. Aside from the stupid people who don't know what they are on about. The film is amazing. Watched it for the first time in about 7 years and still laughed at the quirky British jokes. Well done Ardman. I would recommend this film to anyone who wants to see a good British film and not see some Hugh Grant RomCom that's dated so badly its funny."It's poetry in motion" - Daniel Coombs

Horst in Translation ([email protected]) Right after watching and loving The Wrong Trousers, I decided to give Park's follow-up a re-watch. I have to say as much as he succeeded with mixing crime and western elements into his last work, he comes short here when it comes to romance and mystery. While the occasional laugh can't be denied to any W&G picture, including this one, the whole sheep rustling mystery plot left me completely unimpressed. While the Wallace-Wendolene love story seems charming at first, mostly due to how she mirrors him so much down to her "dog" reading the paper Gromit-style, it quickly becomes unnecessary and boring (almost cringe-worthy during the "leave-me-alone"-sequence) to the extent that one feels nothing during the final action scene and also their final encounter at Wallace's door. Completely unrelated, even Gromit was surprisingly uninteresting here, to the extent that his prison breakdown, which could have been a huge tearjerker moment, didn't do much for me.The one truly remarkable thing I take from this one are the sheep. Obviously they're very early versions of Park's later work in Shaun the Sheep and Timmy Time, which I both enjoy a lot and would recommend over this one. They pretty much raise every scene they're in, especially the original one funnily being dressed in a pullover of its own wool for most of the movie. However, unless you're huge claymation fan, you can do without this half hour.