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Wallace & Gromit - A Grand Day Out
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Product Details
- Starring: Peter Sallis
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- Audience Rating: Unrated
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- Director: Nick Park
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- EAN: 9780790755601
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- Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
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- ISBN: 0790755602
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- Label: BBC Warner
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- Manufacturer: BBC Warner
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: BBC Warner
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- Release Date: 2000-07-10
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- Studio: BBC Warner
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- Theatrical Release Date: 1990
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- Title: Wallace & Gromit - A Grand Day Out
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- UPC: 794051129536
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Product Description: Nominated for an Academy Award in 1990, the first short-film adventure of Wallace & Gromit was this 24-minute comedy, created by clay animator Nick Park over a six-year period at the National Film & Television School in London, and at the Aardman Animation studios that Park boosted to international acclaim. In their debut adventure, Wallace and his furry pal Gromit find themselves desperate for "a nice bit of Gorgonzola," but their refrigerator's empty and the local cheese shop is closed for a holiday! 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 ship 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! --Jeff Shannon
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Customer Reviews
Not the grandest of a grand series
I love Wallace and Gromit and anything by Nick Parks, but A Grand Day Out is my least favorite in the series. If you've never seen a Wallace and Gromit film, I suggest starting with The Wrong Trousers or A Close Shave, both of which are side-splittingly funny and clever, and then moving on to Chicken Run. Grand Day is more atypically subdued and subtle, but it is still good. I could go for some cheese right now, but unlike Wallace, I like mine with fruit.
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Nick Park has done it again
This is another great video. Though not as good as The Wrong Trousers, it's still filled with humor and adventure. In this one, Wallace & Gromit are all out of cheese and all the local stores are closed. So they decide to travel to the moon because everyone knows that the moon is made of cheese. So they work hard to build a rocket. After no time at all, their rocket is finished and they are ready to go to the moon. But when they get there, will they find cheese or something else?
Again, great video. If you lookin' for some good British humor, I'd buy the whole set if I were you.
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Huge fun!
Nick Park's first W&G is still my favorite. It shows his incredible skill with clay animation, but that's the least of it. His characters are what really make this movie.
Wallace is the nominal star of the show. Brilliant as an inventor, he's a bit of a twit in all other respects. Gromit, his long-suffering dog, is at least as smart. Gromit is silent, but I keep thinking that he gets all the great lines - that's how good the body language is. The guest star in this program is, well, improbable. You get to find out for yourself, but this additional character is just wonderful.
There are endless little details that round out the story, including background music, visual gags, and fine points of Park's scenes. This is easy to enjoy, and easy to enjoy more than once.
//wiredweird
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The Best Yet!
This is the best claymation show ever! They Go to the moon for chesse! It sounds like a chessey episode! I watch the show before. This is the first Wallace & Gromit Episode Ever created. The clay looks amazing I know who made the idea of Wallace & Gromit. And it is: Nick Park. THIS IS A MUST BUY. ORDER NOW!
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Wonderful!
I thoroughly enjoyed this pleasing tale about a man and his dog who run out of their favorite food, cheese, so they build a rocketship to get the green cheese from the moon. This delightful story is perfect for people of all ages. Unlike so much in our world, it is appropriate for kids, while adults can still appreciate it as well.
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