Product Details
- Starring: Peter Sallis, Anne Reid
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- Audience Rating: Unrated
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- Brand: Wallace and Gromit
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- Director: Nick Park
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- EAN: 9780790756639
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- Format: Animated, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
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- ISBN: 0790756633
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- Label: BBC & 20th Century Fox
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- Manufacturer: BBC & 20th Century Fox
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- Number of Items: 3
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: BBC & 20th Century Fox
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- Release Date: 2000-07-10
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- Studio: BBC & 20th Century Fox
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- Theatrical Release Date: 1996-10-15
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- Title: Wallace and Gromit 3 video Gift Set of The Wrong Trousers, A Grand Day Out and A Close Shave
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- UPC: 794051141835
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Product Description: The first three Wallace & Gromit shorts are grouped together in a single volume. A Grand Day Out
Nominated for an Academy Award in 1990, this was the first short-film adventure starring Wallace & Gromit. This 24-minute comedy was created by clay animator Nick Park over a six-year period at the National Film and Television School in London and at the Aardman Animation studios, which Park boosted to international acclaim. In their debut adventure, Wallace and his furry pal Gromit are planning a vacation, but first they've got a crisis to solve: they've got plenty of crackers but no cheese! Undeterred, Wallace comes up with an extreme solution to the cheese shortage: since the moon is made of cheese (we all know that's true, right?), he decides to build a rocket and blast off for a cheesy lunar picnic! Gromit's only too happy to help, and before long the inventive duo is on the moon, where they encounter a clever appliance that's part oven, part robot, part lunar skiing enthusiast... Well, you just have to see the movie to understand how any of this whimsical lunar-cy can make any sense! It's a grand tale of wonderful discoveries, fantastic inventions--and really great cheese!
The Wrong Trousers
Clay-animation master Nick Park deservedly won the 1993 Academy Award for Best Animated Short for this 30-minute masterpiece, in which the good-natured inventor Wallace and his trusty dog, Gromit, return for another grand adventure. It all begins on the morning of Gromit's birthday, when Wallace gives his beloved pooch a rather selfish gift that (to Gromit's chagrin) is more useful to Wallace--a pair of mechanical "techno-trousers" ("ex-NASA," says Wallace, duly impressed) that can be programmed to take Gromit out for "walkies" while Wallace sits comfortably at home. Gromit's not exactly thrilled with the new gadget, and things go from bad to worse when Wallace rents a room to a new boarder--a rather suspicious-looking penguin--to offset his rising expenses. As it turns out, the penguin's a notorious thief, and the amazing techno-trousers provide a foolproof method of pulling off a diamond heist! It's Gromit's big opportunity for canine heroics, and The Wrong Trousers turns into one of the funniest, most inventive caper-comedies ever made, with an action-packed climax on a speeding miniature train. Will the notorious "Feathers" wind up in jail, where he belongs? Will Gromit finally get his due recognition? Watch this amazing marvel of clay animation to see why Wallace & Gromit have become global celebrities--this is comedic ingenuity at its finest.
A Close Shave
Hot from the international triumph of The Wrong Trousers, clay animator Nick Park knew that his third Wallace & Gromit film was going to have to be the biggest and best adventure yet for the mild-mannered inventor Wallace and his perceptive pooch, Gromit. With the ambitiously zany plot of A Close Shave, Park and his fellow animators rose to the occasion, and their film won the 1995 Academy Award (Park's second Oscar) for Best Animated Short. This time out, Wallace & Gromit have teamed up to provide a window-washing service, and that's how Wallace meets the lovely Wendolene Ramsbottom, a wool-shop owner whose malevolent dog, Preston, turns out to be the mastermind of a sheep-napping scheme! Of course, no Wallace & Gromit adventure can be without a grandiose gadget, so Wallace's latest invention is the Knit-O-Matic, a yarn-making machine capable of shearing a whole flock of sheep just a bit too efficiently! When the villainous Preston gains control of the mechanical knitting marvel, Gromit must race to the rescue, and A Close Shave reaches new heights of clay-animation mastery. Every shot is a testament to Nick Park's patience, his clever ingenuity, and his filmmaking flair. The movie's so technically impressive, in fact, that the whole world wondered where Park could go next. It was clear that Wallace & Gromit would eventually star in an animated feature-length movie, since this marvelous 30-minute film represents its own kind of short-form perfection. --Jeff Shannon
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Customer Reviews
great witty animations
Wallace and Gromit. We want more, witty, funny, that appeals to children and adults. Make more.....
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We love this DVD
I can't count how many times my husband, three children, and I have watched these excellent, creative, and wonderful shorts. Although a bit scary for my son when he was 3, my girls as toddlers and preschoolers loved them and never found them frightening. Now my family ranges in age from 4 to 39 and we're all delighted to see them over again, as crazy as that sounds. Two of the three shorts also have a French option, which is a great way to expose little kids to new languages.
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This *is* the original unaltered BBC version
J. Lee is referring to the *new* release, Wallace and Gromit in Three Amazing Adventures.
This is the original 2000 release, Wallace & Gromit, the First Three Adventures. This is the version you want.
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Not too cheesy!
These early Wallace and Gromit shorts have an old-fashioned claymation charm. The first film in particular looks a little rough. Wallace and Gromit (the silent but extremely expressive dog) are very charming characters, indeed! Wallace has an obsession with cheese and with building machines to perform the most mundane chores. The plots are very clever and bizarre, from vacationing on the moon (to sample the cheese, of course) to inventing a pair of mechanical trousers to walk a dog, only to find that a shady new boarder (a silent and sinister penguin, of course) has a clever criminal use for them. The stories are full of delightful surprises and punny humor. It's fascinating to watch the making-of clips to see how painstakingly these films are put together. It gave me an appreciation of these films as truly an art, from the hand-painted sets to the classic film stylings. One of my favorite features of the DVD is a series of minute-long shorts featuring Wallace's many overly complicated inventions, bizarre and very funny! The creator of the characters apparently loved inventions himself, and animation allows him to "invent" the impossible and make it work. Overall, very charming movies/DVD. I did see "Curse of the Were-Rabbit" first which I love, so in comparison to that perfect little piece of cinema, I only give 4 stars out of 5. My 3 1/2 daughters love these films, by the way, especially Gromit and the little touches of slapstick.
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Entertaing family fun
As the title says the incredible adventures of Wallace and Gromit. This is a fun show for the whole family, plus it keeps the small children entertained and happy.
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