Was it a crackin film? Wallace & Gromit A Matter of Loaf & Death

Advantages: Funny, good animation, same great characters
Disadvantages: Short and predictable

...Wallace and Gromit - A Matter of Loaf and Death is a 30 minute Wallace and Gromit animation made by Nick Park. This episode was shown on Christmas Day on the BBC. The plot is about Wallace and Gromit being bakers but sadly there is someone who is going about and murdering all the bakers. They have got 12 so far but will they get a baker's dozen? Piella Bakewell is Wallace's love interest this time and there is more to her than meets the eye. The animation is as usual brilliant and a little different to most films and shows made today which have lots of special effects and computer tricks. The plot in a Matter of Loaf and Death however is similar to other Wallace and Gromit films which is a bit of a shame considering the amount of time between this and the last Wallace and Gromit episode. I wish though that the film had lasted...

mariofan123 14.06.2009 · Read review
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Wallace and Gromit use their Loaf

Advantages: Great film
Disadvantages: None

...A Matter of Loaf and Death This time Wallace and Gromit appear as Bakers in the world of bun puns and bread related jokes. Wallace falls for one time Bakerlite girl, Piella Bakewell. Unfortunately Wallace is sometimes a slice short of a loaf ad it turns out Piella is hiding a deadly secret. Gromit soon comes to feel something is not quite right and attempts to thwart Piella As she tries to bump Wallace off. Gromit will really have to use his loaf to get through this one. She is after her full 'bakers dozen' and she will not let Gromit get in her way of slicing and dicing Wallace. There are the usual W & G jokes that run through all of their adventure, generally cheese based. The animation is without doubt made with a lot of love and care. The soundtrack is standard W & G. This is a truly lovely...

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New life of Wallace and Gromit

Advantages: imaginative and humourous
Disadvantages: none

...If you live in the UK you said you don't know Wallace and Gromit, I would think you are kidding. The characters of Wallace and Gromit already became a culture ambassadors of this country. The Daily Mail said Wallace and Gromit is the most delightful animated feature ever. A Matter Of Loaf And Death is the newest one of the series. It was on BBC1 during last Christmas. It caught eyes of all British people. People all were curious about what new would happen in their life. The DVD is on market in 2008. It has two versions. One is DVD, £8.68 and the other one is Blu-ray, £9.68. Both are Eligible for FREE Super Saver Delivery on amazon.co.uk. By the way, it won British Academy Film Awards in 2009. The director Nick Park is really genius. I admire him enormously. The name A matter of Loaf and Death would remind you of a classical...

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Wallace and Gromit, The Curse of the Were Rabbit.

Advantages: Fantastic film
Disadvantages: None

...Curse of the Were Rabbit. Everyone has their favourite Wallace and Gromit film. Mine was A Close Shave. Well, until Curse of the Were Rabbit came out, that is. And now it is a close shave er thing as to which it is! In Curse of the Were Rabbit, Wallace and Gromit are running Antipesto, a specialist humane pest control company. There main threat seems to be rabbits, of which their seem to be an inordinate amount of in the town. Wallace's weird inventions seem to work very well but his idea of a humane solution to the problem is to keep them all in the cellar! But then, just before the annual vegetable growing competition, something awful happens. One of Wallace's experiments in thought control goes horribly wrong and a Were Rabbit is created! Wallace and Gromit must hunt down the Were Rabbit before the odious Victor...

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Review of Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were Rabbit DVD

Wallace and Gromit's 3rd spectacular adventure

Advantages: A thrilling adventure, great for the family, really captures your attention
Disadvantages: None at all

...contraptions that Wallace has made and is testing out - one example is the shopping trolley programmed to fetch goods from the local supermarket! The double DVD pack cost £6.97 on Amazon, which is reasonable value for money. The film is rated PG, probably because of the scary were-rabbit - I don't think children under 12 would be too frightened, though - nevertheless, the guidelines are in place. The film isn't on in the cinemas now - I believe it was released last year some time. So - what's so good about this film? I've always been a fan of Wallace and Gromit, and, as you may well know, or as the Extras DVD will inform you, the development team spend so much time producing the films (hence why they're not produced year-on-year!). The genre of the Wallace and Gromit films, for me, has always been Adventure-Comedy. Not only does...

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Were-Rabbit Woes of Wallace and Gromit

Advantages: W&G, simple but pleasing plot, models, sets, props, witty visual/verbal jokes, action, editing, realistic animation.
Disadvantages: Nil.

...It's that super duo, the cheese-loving Wallace and his canine chum, Gromit, come to grace your friendly neighborhood screens once more! The dotty balding inventor and his smart, silent dog have returned in their first feature film that runs to a full 85 minutes. So, abandon all pretense to gravity, ye who enter the wonderful wacky but genteel world of Wallace and Gromit! Nick Park's animated clay (claymation) characters first came to people's attention via the half-hour short films 'The Wrong Trousers' , 'A Close Shave' and 'A Grand Day Out' from the 90s. Mr Park made his first splash with the subtly clever short, 'Creature Comforts' (1989), in which disconcertingly anthropomorphic zoo animals were interviewed about their daily concerns. Mr Park's claymation is certainly for more than just the kiddies; in fact, I think...

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Wallace And Gromit - A Grand Day Out

Advantages: very funny, everyone will like it
Disadvantages: none

...Wallace And Gromit , A Grand Day Out By Nick Park is a fantastic animation. Wallace who lives with his dog Gromit is a big fan of cheese. And as we all know the moon is made of cheese. The story consists of the duo construct a rocket ship to travel to the moon. There are so many incidental instances that have clearly take lots of thought and work to produce, but they results are very enjoyable. The pain staking process of stop motion animation at its best. For kids and adults alike, there is something for everyone here. Now available on DVD previously only on vhs and rarely on tv. The new format should open it up to a wider audience....

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Yes man and the Yes manifesto

Advantages: witty, inspirational, amusing
Disadvantages: annoying use of italics

...Yes Man by Danny Wallace is the book on which the recent Jim Carey film was (very) loosely based. I'll be honest, I watched the film first and I had a mild inclination to then read the book. I was intrigued by the philosophy to the point where I contemplated trying it out for a week (saying "Yes" to anything and everything), if I was less lazy and more confident I would have. Perhaps I still will. When I noticed a friend at work was reading the book I asked if I could borrow it. He's a very slow reader, so I had to wait as the weeks ticked by, but finally he leant it to me a week or so ago. It's taken priority over my other books so I can return it to him quickly. It's easy reading, there was no need for me to worry. The first thing to say is the book is very different to the film. As is usually the case with book to film transfers I...

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Friends for life?

Advantages: great book
Disadvantages: none

...I have been a fan of Danny Wallace for quite a while now - ever since I read his collaboration with Dave Gorman on the book 'Are You Dave Gorman?' Since then Danny has gone on to write a number of books of his own, all based on mad boyish escapades which manage to take him to far flung places and sometimes land him in a bit of bother! His latest book that I have read - Friends like These - is written in the same vein, although it does have some quite thought provoking and poignant moments too. As he writes this book, Danny is fast approaching his thirtieth birthday which seems to be causing him a bit of a crisis. Although he is happily married to Lizzie, they own their own home and he has an interesting career; there is something about this milestone that causes him a lot of angst. It is almost as if it symbolises the complete crossover...

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Swinging Rococo

Advantages: small and pretty museum
Disadvantages: none

...Not even ten minutes on foot away from the hustle and bustle of Oxford Street the connoisseur tourist finds Manchester Square with the Hartford House on one side. The building contains one of the world?s finest private collections ever assembled by a single family, and since 1897 when the widow of Sir Richard Wallace died leaving to Britain its largest private bequest ever, no artefact has been taken away or added. When I arrived there on a Sunday afternoon a free guided tour had just begun. The guide was clearly in love with the house, the art collection and the rococo period from which most artefacts come which was a good thing because her enthusiasm was infectious. The first rooms show the portraits of the Hartford/Wallace family, but you don?t want to know their history! It?s rather complicated due to illegitimate children...

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