Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers (1993)

User Rating:

8.6/10   

Director:

Nick Park

Writers:

Nick Park (writer) and
Bob Baker (writer) ...

Release Date:

29 September 1994 (Germany)

Genre:

Animation | Short | Comedy | Crime | Family

Plot:

Wallace is used by a criminal penguin in a robbery involving mechanical trousers.

Plot Keywords:

Penguin | Trousers | Robbery | Dog | Inventor

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 9 wins

Cast

Peter Sallis

...

Wallace (voice)

Also Known As:

The Wrong Trousers (UK) (short title)

Runtime:

30 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Finland:S | Brazil:Livre | Argentina:Atp | Iceland:L | South Korea:All | Australia:G | Portugal:M/6 | Spain:T | UK:U | USA:Unrated

Company:

Aardman Animations

Trivia:

In an effort to get Gromit out of the house, the penguin plays very loud music. One tune is "How Much is That Doggie in the Window?" and another is "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the 'Ole Oaktree" which indicates that he's just been released from prison.

Goofs:

Continuity: When the penguin uses the remote to get Wallace out of bed, the sheets are all crumpled up, but in the next shot they're neatly spread over the bed again.

Quotes:

[last lines]
Wallace: Ah, but I do like a bit of gorgonzola!

Movie Connections:

Featured in Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo (2003) (VG)

Soundtrack:

Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree

A true mile stone of animation

Nick Park's hysterical plasticine duo Wallace and Gromit are back in this, their second outing, pitting themselves against the plotting penguine whose devious nature is taking advantage of Wallace's niavity. However, the ever suspicious Gromit is seeing through the Penguine's frosty exterior and sets out to uncover his secret scheming shadowy plan. The Wrong Trousers is the best so far from Peter Lord and Nick Park, putting even the outstanding Chicken Run and Close Shave in it's shadow. The characterisation is simply electrical. The ever suffering but mute Gromit and the clumsy well meaning Wallace muddle their way to stopping a truely outstanding criminal genius penguine (whose pesona is portrayed with such subtlety and effect that the cute bird becomes the very essence of evil). Park and Lord's pace and cinematography in this animation medium are truely world leading, climaxing in the mad mayhem of a train-set chase through their house. The plot is simple yet full of nuances and details (check out the headline's on Wallace's newspaper and the wall paper in Gromit's bedroom)raising this above even the best that that big studios can produce. A film almost without fault which pays homage to the greatest and most farciscal works of the great Ealing comedy era (there is something sinister happening but, it isn't that sinister really). Watch this film and let the quality and clarity of the humour seep into your soul. A true mile-stone of animation which deserved it's oscar like no other animation ever will.