More of the funny same

Rating: 8/10 (12 July 2000)

As a true-blue Wallace and Gromit fan (my office workstation is named gromit and my other box is named preston), Nick Park can do no wrong. This flick is loaded with some excellent animation, tough shots and angles that take you into uncharted perspectives. More than once I found myself awed by the superb technical detail.
At the same time tho, this was another one of the same... a smart chick (Gromit), dozens of dim-witted hens (Wallace), the mostly dark motif of both "A Close Shave" and "The Wrong Trousers", and the chicken-pie mechanical foe ("knit-o-matic").
The adversaries were too normal- I'll take a robot-gone-wrong cur or a scheming penguin any day over a money-hungry matriarch and a hen-pecked hubby.
Then there's the minor flaw pointed out elsewhere of how the heroes un-escaped back into the barracks so easily after monkey wrenching the pie-o-matic.
But don't get me wrong, this is entertainment every moment and worth every buck. See it just for the well-placed allusions to pop culture (well 20 to 30 years ago pop culture 8-) that had me in tears.