October 9, 2005
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Old-school 3D
I saw Wallace & Gromit this week at the Cineramadome (cool theater… first time here) OK… there is something to be said about British humor which simply craps all over the type of textbook “slapsticky parody” humor seen in US animated features (not naming any names). Just my personal two-cents.
In short, Curse of the Were-Rabbit was funny as hell. The characters had so much personality for very simple designs; the dialogue was smart; the pacing brilliant. In this age of smoothly-rendered CG (and ’don’t-you-love-the-shiny-fur-textures-on-these-talking-animals’), it is a treat to see old school plasticine models with fingerprints on them! And GROMIT! No celebrity-voiced wisecrackin’ dialogue necessary. All the character and emotion is in his very expressively animated eyes.
Highly recommended
I know we haven’t posted here in ages. Eddie and I are still jetlagged from our trip… trying to get our energy back and bodyclocks working normally again … what with all this smoke and smog in L.A. Meanwhile, still doing stuff… slowly getting back into the swing of things…
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Comments (7)
i was supposed to go to a free screening of wallace and gromit but it got sold out… how was it?
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C’mon Lilita – give us the skinny on W & G…
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I saw the movie the other day and I can do nothing but agree with you. Although, with the amount of crap comming to cinemas these days, there isn’t much competition. Up the Brits!!
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This morning, there was a huge fire at the warehouse where all the original W&G models and props were stored – basically wiping out the entire history of Aardman Animations (save for the stuff used in the new movie and Chicken Run).Full story is here:http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/10/aardman.fire/index.htmlReally sad, but in light of all these other tragedies recently the creators are keeping a stiff upper lip.
British humour is without a doubt a cut above the American variety. On a separate note, though, I heard on the news that the studio that housed all the sets, props and paraphernelia from the Wallace and Gromit production was gutted by fire. That’s tragic.