Here's a movie I can't wait for...
I'm a huge fan of Wallace and Gromit.
Two of the most interesting movies slated for the fall season, capable of attracting both young and old viewers, are new Claymation creations: the first full-length Wallace & Gromit adventure from Aardman and the terrifyingly true-to-life Corpse Bride from Tim Burton.If you haven't seen the Wallace and Gromit shorts....then go to Amazon and buy them immediately. They are hilarious.
Aardman is the British company led by Nick Park, Peter Lord and David Sproxton, who spin whimsy out of moulded Plasticine and stop-motion animation. They had a global hit with Chicken Run in 2000, which featured Mel Gibson as the voice of a talking rooster named Rusty. The Aardman guys have won a slew of awards, including three Oscars, for the short films Creature Comforts, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave.
The latter two shorts star the cheese-loving Brit twit Wallace and his loyal mutt Gromit, who are front-and-centre for Wallace & Gromit — The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, the duo's first feature-length movie.
Scheduled for an early October release, the film has Wallace and Gromit toiling as the owners of a pest-control firm called Anti-Pesto (groan). They specialize in humane trapping techniques, which come in handy when they are summoned to clear a field of cute-but-pesky rabbits that threaten to lay waste to their town's Giant Vegetable Competition.
The dynamic duo figures they have the problem just about licked when a mysterious beast starts terrorizing the town and ravaging the well-tilled soil. Competition hostess Lady Tottington (Helena Bonham-Carter) calls upon Anti-Pesto to engage the fearsome beast. But she hasn't reckoned on the schemes of Victor Quartermaine, a local toff who seeks not only her hand in marriage but also a quick ticket to heroism by dispatching the errant hare.
Of course, neither of them have reckoned on the stumbling ministrations of Wallace and Gromit, who always manage to be in the wrong place at the right time.
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