Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers (1993)

Director:

Nick Park

Writers:

Nick Park (writer) and
Bob Baker (writer) ...
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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 | Lodger | Inventor

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 9 wins

Cast

Peter Sallis

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Wallace (voice)

Directed by
Nick Park

Writing credits
Nick Park		(writer) and
Bob Baker		(writer)
Brian Sibley		additional screenplay

Produced by
Peter Lord	....	executive producer
Christopher Moll	....	producer
Colin Rose	....	executive producer
Colin Rose	....	producer: BBC
Peter Salmon	....	executive producer
Peter Salmon	....	producer: BBC
Peter Simon	....	executive producer
David Sproxton	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Julian Nott

Cinematography by
Tristan Oliver

Film Editing by
Helen Garrard

Art Direction by
Yvonne Fox

Production Management
Peter Thornton	....	production manager

Art Department
Geoff Bevins	....	characters and props
Trisha Budd	....	characters and props
Tim Farrington	....	scenic artist
Richard Higgs	....	graphic designer
Phil Lewis	....	assistant art director: sets
John Parsons	....	characters and props
Jan Sanger	....	characters and props
Ian Whitlock	....	assistant art director: props
John Wright	....	characters and props

Sound Department
Harvey Lilley	....	dialogue dubbing editor
Bill Morgan	....	sound effects recordist
Chris Nuttall	....	post-sound assistant
Adrian Rhodes	....	dubbing editor
Aad Wirtz	....	dubbing mixer
Garry Fiferman	....	sound re-recordist (uncredited)

Visual Effects by
Zachary Bloom	....	scanning and recording: Framestore
Craig Chandler	....	optical effects
Peter Wignall	....	optical effects supervisor
Tony Willis	....	effects cameraman (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Tristan Oliver	....	photographer
Dave Alex Riddett	....	photographer

Animation Department
Steve Box	....	animator
Tom Gasek	....	additional animator
Arril Johnson	....	additional animator
Peter Lord	....	additional animator
Nick Park	....	animator
Peter Thornton	....	additional animator

Editorial Department
Tamsin Parry	....	trainee assistant editor
Tasmin Parry	....	trainee assistant film editor
Jason Wheeler	....	negative cutter

Music Department
Nic Raine	....	orchestrator
Simon Rhodes	....	music scoring mixer

Other crew
Jason Marshall	....	production assistant
Brian Sibley	....	additional writing contributor

Production Companies

• Aardman Animations
• BBC Bristol (in association with)
• BBC Lionheart Television
• Children's BBC International
• Wallace & Gromit

Distributors

• Alta Films (Spain)
• BBC Bristol (1993) (UK) (TV)
• British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (1993) (UK) (TV)

Also Known As:

The Wrong Trousers (UK) (short title)
As Calças Erradas (Portugal) [pt]
De ustyrlige teknobukser (Denmark) [da]
Fel brallor (Sweden) [sv]
I pantaloni sbagliati (Italy) [it]
Los pantalones equivocados (Spain) [es]
Nesprávné kalhoty (Czech Republic) [cs]
Väärät housut (Finland) [fi]
Wallace & Gromit - Die Techno-Hose (Germany) [de]
Wallace & Gromit: As Calças Erradas (Brazil) [pt]
Wallace & Gromit: Le mauvais pantalon (France) [fr]
Wallace & Gromit: Los pantalones equivocados (Argentina) [es]
Wsciekle gacie (Poland) [pl]

Runtime:

30 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

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:

The puma/jaguar from Creature Comforts (1989) is visible in the museum.

Goofs:

Continuity: Gromit suddenly gains a watch on his right arm, when looking at the calendar, it's not seen before or afterwards.

Quotes:

Wallace: It's the wrong trousers Gromit, and they've gone wrong!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Diabolik (#11.13)" (1999)

Soundtrack:

Happy Talk

cracking good story

The best film of the Wallace and Gromit trilogy, and one of the greatest films, period. Nick Park and the animators at Aardman are some true talents and gifted storytellers. Nick Park has made some great clay stop motion cartoons before, such as Creature Comforts, but with The Wrong Trousers he really topped himself. The technical aspects of the movie are amazing. The noirish lighting, the attention to detail, the small jokes in the background, the camera compositions and the fluid animation (it doesn't have that herky-jerky look of most clay animated films) are awe-inspiring by themselves, but combined with such a witty story and appealing characters the result is something that truly deserves to be called a classic.