SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Cooktopi The acting in this movie is really good.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

O2D This first Wallace & Gromit short is sometimes thought of as the best but it's not.In case you don't know the characters, I'll catch you up.Wallace is a not so smart inventor and Gromit is his very intelligent dog.Wallace is always doing dumb things while Gromit sits back and watches.Maybe because he can't speak or maybe he's just a jerk,they never broach the subject.In this adventure, Wallace discovers they are out of cheese and decides they should go to the moon because it's made of cheese.I understand this series isn't meant to be realistic or factual but sometimes they push it a bit far. So anyway, Wallace builds a rocket out of a wooden door with some help from Gromit.They go to the moon and meet some weird vending/washing machine that takes British money and is sentient.After reading Wallace's vacation magazines, the machine gets some ideas of how to have fun on the moon.This is definitely something all kids and some adults should watch at least once.

MartinHafer This is the first Wallace and Gromit film and while not quite as polished as later ones (hence the 9 and not a score of 10), it was a magnificent film. In light of its fantastic graphics and lovely story, it was nominated for the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film--which it lost, oddly enough, to another film from the same studio! CREATURE COMFORTS is a much simpler film--shorter and with a single gimmick (which you either loved or hated--I hated it) and I have no idea why the Wallace and Gromit short lost--it was head and shoulders above this other film.This short has to do with both introducing the characters as well as giving them something to do--in this case, taking a trip to the moon to satisfy Wallace's pathological love for cheese! It's got all the expected gags and style--a lovely film really and one you MUST watch (really)!

ajgrant1991 This short film was the start of an amazing career for claymation artist Nick Park, in a film involving an inventor and his clever canine. This was the first of the four wallace and gromit movies that he made, which included a rocket, a bizarre robot and of course Wallace's favorite's food... cheese! The plot involves Wallace in search for some cheese. There is none left in the pantry and searching through his magazine of "cheese holidays" and sees an amazing opportunity. This film uses the old "is-moon-really-made-of-cheese?" theory in a cunning way. Wallace, and his clever hound Gromit, construct a big rocket to take them to the moon. Wallace has the time of his life sampling many different cheeses, but an old robot is stirring up problems for them and causing mayhem... if you want to see these problems, get the movie! Fun for the whole family. Considering the production cost of this movie was 11,000 pounds compared to the millions put into the latest movie "the curse of the were-rabbit," this movie is a great achievement. You'll watch it again for sure!"

ian_harris Wallace and Gromit are a phenomenon. How many stop motion animation films win Oscars, top the US and UK box office charts etc. But all that came later.A Grand Day Out was the first Wallace and Gromit film. Low budget. More or less a graduation piece. Of course the animation is less sophisticated than in the later films. Of course the plot is a little shallow. The entire story is designed to minimise the need for sophisticated animation and to maximise the excuse for shortcomings (perhaps dogs and people would move a bit like that on a cheese moon).Yet it is extraordinary to see how much of the Aardman genius is already there in this short film. Hilarious and clever references to other films. Mice in shades for take off. The rocket handbrake gag. Coin-operated machine gags (brilliantly recycled in Were-Rabbit BTW). And a machine (is it an Aga?) that daydreams about skiing when it sees Wallace's holiday magazines.Of course TWT, ACS and Were-Rabbit are better movies, but this film is so worth seeing as a sign of early genius and indeed in its own right as a crude but wonderful animated film.