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Wallace & Gromit: The First Three Adventures (1990-1995)

Wallace & Gromit: The First Three Adventures (1990-1995)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Three Treasures in One!!!
Review: I can't tear myself away! I just bought this video yesterday and after watching it for the first time this afternoon, I am now having an encore presentation. It's even funnier the second time around! Wallace and Gromit are two loveable and charming characters indeed. I have found myself laughing out loud at their hilarious adventures, especially "The Wrong Trousers" and "A Close Shave". This is definitely a wonderful and unique edition to my video collection. It has already turned me into a big fan of claymation. Hurray for "The Incredible Adventures of Wallace & Gromit". Buy it!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Love it!...and you will too!
Review: This set includes all three Wallace And Gromit films, which have won a slew of well-deserved awards. The animation is charming, and the attention to detail is impressive. As you watch the videos again and again you keep noticing more little details you missed before--most are witty or inside jokes or references that you'll catch if you pay attention. The characters are beloved for a reason--Wallace is neurotic and obsessive in charming Brit style, and Gromit is brilliant, sarcastic, and parental. 'The Wrong Trousers' and 'A Close Shave' are my favorites--these two have the best plots, the funniest twists, and the best character development (the evil penguin and bully bulldog had me rolling!). You can't help but fall in love with Wallace And Gromit, and you'll probably join the rest of us addicts begging for another installment and buying up every piece of witty merchandise you can get!

If you do end up liking these videos, you should definitely get 'Creature Comforts' by Aardman productions--it's got a great Nick Park short, and three other great pieces. Plus, Chicken Run was great, too (though it was no Wallace and Gromit!)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Thoroughly Entertaining!!
Review: My wife turned me onto Wallace and Grommit after she had viewed their videos years ago. I finally had a chance to watch them and I was very much impressed. The stop-action claymation was incredible (I mean, how can you simulate pouring water?). They certainly took their sweet old time considering the videos were originally released a few years apart from one another.

The videos follow the adventures of Wallace, an eccentric British (kind of redundant?) inventor and his quiet but very trustworthy dog Grommit. The first video (A Grand Day Out) is simpler in animation and story, but doesn't lack in action and wit. Darn it if Wallace can't get more cheese, so he builds a rocket to fly to the moon (which is made of cheese of course). The Wrong Trousers is probably the best with the evil Penguin, who steals and modifies a Wallace invention for his own intentions. The chase scene at the end is high paced action. And A Close Shave is a great follow up, where W & G find themselves in the middle of a Sheep Theft ring. And it actually includes a budding romance between Grommit and a store owner! Overall, they were possibly the most enjoyable animation videos I have ever watched and would recommend for people of all ages.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Three cheeeeesy masterpieces in one volume
Review: Is it any wonder that two of these three shorts are in the IMDB user's top rated 100 films of all time? If you justifiably believe that "Chicken Run" was among the best films of 2000, these earlier works by Nick Parker and Bob Baker should be just your cup of tea.

These have everything. Technically amazing plasticene claymation. Storylines that are brilliant send-ups of well-worn Hollywood themes. An ingeniuous but addled Rube Goldberg-esqeue inventor of such gadgets as the Knit-o-matic, the Techno-trousers, and a pot-iron and plywood moonrocket, and whose mouth just wraps around the word "cheeeese." A dog with no visible mouth who solves crimes and reads newspapers. An evil penguin boarder disguised as a chicken. And lots and lots of cheese (including Wensleydale!).

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: LANGUAGE IS NOT IMPORTANT
Review: My Grandaughter lives in Japan and speaks very little English but loves this Video. During my most recent visit there I must have seen this video twenty or more times. She often wanted to watch it several times a day and her mother used the video as a reward for doing things she didn't want to do such as taking medicine and brushing her teeth. I was impressed that she understood the stories although she is not fluent in English. The stories were easy to follow and the humor was visual as well as verbal. I liked it too. It was funny, innovative and the good guys always won.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Love it
Review: I don't know what can i do for you !

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: PENGUIN FAN CLUB
Review: Before I saw "The Wrong Trowsers" - I had no idea penguins could be evil. How does Park claymate the flying porridge?

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: a joyous 81 minutes!
Review: My friends and I often joke about how long claymation must take. Mostly it is a suffered art with little joy. Everything just ends up choppy and sloppy.

So how do the creators of WALLACE & GROMIT pull off something so fantastically joyful and funny while maintaining an unusually high quality of claymation?

These three episodes are sure to be a smash with your entire family, especially if you can appreciate a bit of quirky British humor. Wallace's botched inventions will leave you holding your sides. Gromit (his dog) has a wonderful range of subtle expressions, and makes for a worthy sidekick without ever uttering a single word.

This video will have no trouble finding its way back into your VCR even if your inner child is on life support. Your inner child will be back by the end of THE WRONG TROUSERS, and after watching the other two episodes, you can join the ever-growing population of W&G fans.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: True humor!
Review: First of the series I saw was "The Wrong Trousers". I don't think I've ever laughed so much when watching a movie - and so did my mother who happened to watch it with me. From that moment Nick Park became #1 in my comedy movies list. The humor is very fun, quite clever at times, doesn't insult my intelligence (many hollywood comedies feature so stupid, bad jokes that I felt insulted intelligence-wise and treated like an idiot already at the age of seven) and is in no way offensive: his humor is always on the situation and in the ideas, it is always harmless.

I'd choose 5 minutes of Nick Park over any other comedy out there - this is something so original you just have to see it. Of course, you can't appeal everybody, and I guess there are even people who don't find W&G fun :)

This DVD is an excellent disc. It contains all three W&G animations Nick Park has so far created, and they are all very fun, especially The Wrong Trousers and "The Close Shave".

The main characters are Wallace, a harmless, nice british fellow, witty inventor and yet somewhat simple in mind. His companion Gromit is a very intelligent, perhaps somewhat cynical - but good-hearted too - dog, who tends to save Wallace quite often from various troubles.

I recommend watching all the movies several times as there are many, extremely fun details everywhere and you probably just can't notice all of them at first.

I'd say Wallace & Gromit is somewhat similar to man and the naked gun -comedies without offensive parts, in innocent form. This is excellent stuff both for the kids and parents!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: great animation
Review: This was the first Wallace and Gromit video I have seen and I absolutely loved it. The expressions they are able to make on the characters' faces are just great and I like how clever the stories are. I especially like the lady in the wool shop and how she acted around Wallace and how Wallace thought about her. I recommend this to anyone, child or adult, because it is so cleverly done, and Wallace's inventions are so funny.


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