Amazon.com video review:
Hot from the international triumph of The Wrong
Trousers, clay animator Nick Park knew that his third Wallace
& Gromit film was going to have to be the biggest and best adventure
yet for the mild-mannered inventor Wallace and his perceptive pooch
Gromit. With the ambitiously zany plot of A Close Shave, Park
and his fellow animators rose to the occasion and their film won the
1995 Academy Award (Park's second Oscar) for Best Animated Short. This
time out, Wallace & Gromit have teamed up to provide a window-washing
service, and that's how Wallace meets the lovely Wendolene Ramsbottom,
a wool-shop owner whose malevolent dog Preston turns out to be the
mastermind of a sheep-napping scheme! Of course, no Wallace & Gromit
adventure can be without a grandiose gadget, so Wallace's latest
invention is the Knit-O-Matic, a yarn-making machine capable of
shearing a whole flock of sheep just a bit too efficiently! When the
villainous Preston gains control of the mechanical knitting marvel,
Gromit must race to the rescue, and A Close Shave reaches new
heights of clay-animation mastery. Every shot is a testament to Nick
Park's patience, his clever ingenuity, and his filmmaking flair. The
movie's so technically impressive, in fact, that the whole world
wondered where Park could go next. It was clear that Wallace & Gromit
would eventually star in an animated feature-length movie, since this
marvelous 30-minute film represents its own kind of short-form
perfection. --Jeff Shannon
Amazon.com video review:
The perfect gift set for the Wallace and Gromit fan. All three
of animator Nick Park's first adventures featuring the dotty inventor
and his loyal but laconic dog--The Wrong
Trousers, A
Close Shave, and A Grand Day
Out--come wrapped together and ready for multiple viewings.
This is truly one of the rare gift sets that will entertain the entire
family. --Doug Thomas
Amazon.com Essentials:
The perfect gift set for the Wallace and Gromit fan. All three of animator Nick
Park's first adventures featuring the dotty inventor and his loyal but laconic dog--The
Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave, and A Grand Day Out--come
wrapped together and ready for multiple viewings. This is truly one of the rare gift sets
that will entertain the entire family. --Doug Thomas --This text refers to an out of
print or unavailable edition of this title.
