Ay Up, Gromit, shall we see whats at the flickers?

A while back I saw the Wallace & Gromit movie, Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and I loved it. This opinion was put into place back in 7th grade when I watched the second of the Wallace & Gromit shorts "The Wrong Trousers", and was knocked over, and was further assured when the short, before the movie, began: the Madagascar "gaiden" that centered around the highly humorous penguins of that (shitty) film. Indeed, it seems Aardman Films (and the associated Nick Park) is one of the few production companies who still has any intention of giving us good animated films. Everything Dreamworks puts out is empty beats we've all seen a thousand times before, and Disney is following suit quit expectedly. Only Pixar was above all the rest, but then they released the preview for Cars and oh well. There were only TWO celebrity voices in Were-Rabbit, and (gasp!) both of them were ACTUALLY DOING VOICES. None of this "And now the cow who's obviously Rosanne!" or (shudder) Brad Pitt as Sinbad. Jesus that was ass.

The Wallace and Gromit movie was everything a movie based on the series should be: it felt like the episodes, but it was bigger. We find the heroes are further along in their lives than when we last were with them. That's exciting formt he get-go, and what they were up to was all new, but still very in line with who we've come to know over the years. Then, once the plot really starts to get into high gear, there's a greater danger than our heroes have ever faced before, and it strikes much closer to home than it ever has before. That's super key. Most series' films just re-enact the series as best as possible, by trying to give the drooling fans exaclty what they wanted. Or, more recently, the problem has been that a series can't wait to be made into a film, so they blow their load way too quickly in some season finale (Deep Space 9, I'm staring intensly at YOU).

Each portion of the film was Wallace and Gromit-core, too. The timing sensibilites were very much Nick Park, in both story and humour (sorry, "humor"), and as the whole thing escalated, the madness at the end was extremely satisfying. I wish the seperate action segments has colided more, rather than resolving seperately before grouping, but that's just me.

Eight or nine comically oversized thumbs up your ass. For this movie. Huh.