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Sunday 18 August 2013

Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out (1989)

Cheese and crackers are a perfect combination, but running out of cheese throws a spanner in the works. Wallace takes that spanner and builds something mysterious in his basement. The hunt for cheese is on.
The Wallace and Gromit adventures that came after were more refined, but it's still worth revisiting this very first one from time to time; it's as charming as ever, helped along that route by Peter Sallis' Yorkshire accent.
Gromit (the dog with the worried look in the picture above) can't speak, but being in claymation means his facial expressions can be moulded into many different forms. Wallace's wild ideas mean Gromit's thick brows spend much of their time at the suspicion and despair setting.

3 specialist magazines out of 5

1 comment:

cuckoo said...

Gromit's suspicious and grumbled brow is the best.

:bearclap:

I bought the box set when there were only 3 shorts.

Only watched this one once. Like The Wrong Trousers best.