Creature Comforts (1989) sets a standard for "claymation," for animal welfare and animal rights issues, for integration of real life and animated action, and for subtle and outright funny humor. After finding it by chance on a PBS station in the early 1990s, I've tried to track it down, and was pleased to learn that a new version has been made, which I have yet to see.
Wherever Nick Park's figures appear -- be they animal, vegetable or mineral -- in advertising or movies, it's a sure bet that they'll be funny and memorable.
In Park's full-length films featuring Wallace and his dog, Grommit, he endowed these two "stars" with such mundane domesticity that, no matter what country the viewer calls home, we can relate to their comfortable behaviors, e.g. knitting (Grommit), cheese and crackers, reading the paper in the comfy chair. When the bizarre occurs, as it does with Wallace's inventions, we can imagine that we're all capable of such flights of fancy. The same is true in Creature Comforts. We've seen enough TV interviews and talking heads that this seems like another such program -- but funnier.
Wherever Nick Park's figures appear -- be they animal, vegetable or mineral -- in advertising or movies, it's a sure bet that they'll be funny and memorable.
In Park's full-length films featuring Wallace and his dog, Grommit, he endowed these two "stars" with such mundane domesticity that, no matter what country the viewer calls home, we can relate to their comfortable behaviors, e.g. knitting (Grommit), cheese and crackers, reading the paper in the comfy chair. When the bizarre occurs, as it does with Wallace's inventions, we can imagine that we're all capable of such flights of fancy. The same is true in Creature Comforts. We've seen enough TV interviews and talking heads that this seems like another such program -- but funnier.