The Return of Wallace and Gromit

blamanj writes "Aardman Studios have release the first peek (Quicktime) at the new Wallace & Gromit film, Curse of the Wererabbit. Currently scheduled for an October release, the slightly-less-than dynamic duo will be putting their talents to work chasing a were-rabbit that threatens the town's vegetables. Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter supply lead vocals. Character creator Nick Park co-directs his story."

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Cor!

[ackthpt]

Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter supply lead vocals.

I thought for a mo that they were taking over for the venerable Peter Sallis, the familiar voice of Wallace. I don't need shocks like that!

your's truly will provide the voice of gromit

This is disgusting

[Nine Tenths of The W]

Currently scheduled for an October release, the slightly-less-than dynamic duo will be putting their talents to work chasing a were-rabbit that threatens the town's vegetables.

Firstly, the term is "differently abled". Secondly, who the hell does Nick Park think he is, enforcing bigoted ablecentric paradigms that reinforce stereotypes of helplessness and dependency?

Re:Cinema?

[ackthpt]

Please don't forget we're all boycotting the evil media companies.

We'll make an exception. It'll make for A Grand Day Out, especially if I remember to have A Close Shave and don't wear The Wrong Trousers.

Looks Great

[Anonymous Coward]

I watched the trailer earlier this morning and the movie looks very promising. The subject of the movie is sort of hidden within the trailer, but if you look at all the working titles from different countries it will probably give you a better idea of what the movie will be about.

I think...

[Mad_Rain]

I think that Wallace and Grommet should be boycotted by the slashdot community for their negative stereotyping of penguins as evil criminal masterminds!

(you do realize this is a joke, right?)

Re:I think...

[jestered1]

I'm confused. I'm only half-way into "The Wrong Trousers" and I thought the criminal was a chicken. How about a spoiler warning next time!

Trailer...

[antdude]

According to my old AQFL story and Dark Horizons, there was a WMV trailer on Screen Rant but the Web site seems to be down. You can look at Google's cached Web page. And here is the original Web site that hosted it (still works for now).

Trailer is also out

[solowCX]

Check out the link for the full trailer. http://212.100.255.23/media/video/Wallace_and_Grom it_Trailer_330k.wmv

Hardly "slightly-less-than dynamic"

[Jtheletter]

First off, Wallace and Gromit have come out on top in every adventure they've been in, from picnicking on the moon to battling an automatic-trouser-stealing penguin burglar.

And secondly, they are made of clay. It doesn't get much more dynamic than that. :P

Finally, good non-CG animation

[VolciMaster]

The Wallace and Gromit series are fantastic, and I've been looking forward to a full-length movie ever since seeing The Wrong Trousers. Chicken Run was quite funny, but it was chickens, not our slightly dashing duo! If you've never seen good claymation, you should defintiely go rent/buy all of the W&G videos, and get a copy of Chicken Run also.

W&G is such a nice break from the (albeit quite good) CG animation movies of the past few years. Claymation requires so much handwork and attention to detail, that there are very few people who can do it, let alone do it well. The folks at Pixar et al are great at what they do, and they put in a lot of detail... but the computer rendering is also responsible for a bunch of the look. Here you have straight-up, old-fashioned hard work, care, and love on the part of the animators.

Re:Finally, good non-CG animation

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, be fair.

The visual presentation means a lot, but any truly great feature is made truly great by fantastic writing, characters and voices.

Both Pixar and the W&G crew have these going for them.