Written by Nick Park & Steve Box & Mark Burton & Bob Baker
Directed by Nick Park & Steve Box
“It’s time we tried my latest invention, the Mind Manipulation-omatic. It extracts unwanted thoughts and desires. I haven’t tested it yet, but it should be perfectly safe. Just a bit of harmless brain alteration, that’s all…”
I hadn’t planned on seeing a movie this past evening, but my sister asked if I’d hang out with her for the evening, so off we went.
Now…here are a few reasons why YOU too should go and see Wallace & Gromit:
(1) It’s very very very funny!
In the span of 85 minutes, you will smile until your face hurts. You will laugh until your belly hurts. You will giggle with glee at some of the sweetest, cutest, and most outrageous things a claymation comedy can achieve.
You will shed uncontrollable tears of joy watching bunnies being sucked out of the ground by an enormous vacuum cleaner…Looney Tunes would have KILLED for this!
(2) It’s very very very British!
If you can’t appreciate the wit, the style, and the utter magnificence of British humour, you’re a complete wanker! You’re KING of the wankers! This movie is full of wit and humour on a monumental scale. There are 1930s Universal horror movie pastiches; little throwaway lines and pictures are scattered everywhere; dirty British slang snuck into the dialogue of a G-rated movie! Call me Totty indeed…!
Oh…and you’ll believe a dog with no mouth can save the world. 
(3) It will leave you humming!
The soundtrack, by Hans Zimmer, is a rich and glorious score that is a string of incidental music riffs from other films…including his own back catalogue! It will be worth getting the CD.
It’s also a movie that will make you quote dialogue to your friends over and over…and you’ll also become a master at imitating Wallace’s hand gestures. You may even develop an unhealthy love of cheese and large vegetables!
(4) GIANT SLUGS!!!
“The giant slugs are BACK!” screams one woman…making thousands of long time Doctor Who fans strangely happy for making a brilliant joke on the back of The Twin Dilemma!
And as for the great duck plague, well…
I’m going to shut up now, and simply advise you to go see this movie…
Preferably with kids…
Preferably with the-kid-within-you unleashed…
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PS: Be prepared to laugh until your eyes dry out at the trailer for the upcoming release of Disney’s Chicken Little!
