# Are Wallace and Gromit movies for adults? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 19, 2008, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-wallace-and-gromit-movies-for-adults/460614 "2008-08-19T23:35:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-wallace-and-gromit-movies-for-adults/460614/21 "2008-08-20T12:44:33Z")
Watching _The Wrong Trousers_ with a big spread of ages in the audience is great. There’s a particular moment where the thief is revealed to be the penguin disguised as a chicken by wearing a rubber glove on his head.The reveal happens at different times for different ages - the adults know as soon as the character arrives; small children much later; and slightly older children learn that they _are_ a bit older when the little ones gasp at the reveal. It’s fine moment. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-wallace-and-gromit-movies-for-adults/460614/22 "2008-08-20T13:24:09Z")
[QUOTE=Valgard] The first time I saw “The Wrong Trousers” (I was in my late 20s) I was enthralled. Years later, in my 30s, I sat down with my older sister and her two young children and we watched the first DVD. All four of us had a great time. I watched Curse Of The Were-Rabbit in a small independent theatre with my girlfriend when it came out a few years ago. Place was packed with adults and kids of all ages, everyone loved the show. Great stuff. You’ll love it and so will your grandkids - like Toy Story, Monsters Inc, Shrek or other modern animation, suitable for all ages. Some of the humor is aimed at adults but it goes right over the heads of little kids, they don’t know they’ve missed anything.[/QUOTE Check out the price of The Wrong Trousers at > **[Amazon.com: Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers DVD (an English Language...](https://www.amazon.com/Wallace-Gromit-Trousers-Language-Adaptation/dp/0194590070)** > > Join Wallace and his dog Gromit on their adventures. These adaptations of the world-famous animated film characters feature a cleaver story line combined with ingenious humor and brilliant characterization. LOL!! ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-wallace-and-gromit-movies-for-adults/460614/23 "2008-08-20T17:06:39Z")
[QUOTE=Galwegian] Oh, and of course [Flushed Away](http://www.amazon.com/Flushed-Away-Widescreen-Hugh-Jackman/dp/B000M343BC/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1219213125&sr=1-7), if only for the singing slugs! [/QUOTE] I like the French ninja frogs, and love the toad villain because he is voiced by Ian McKellan. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-wallace-and-gromit-movies-for-adults/460614/24 "2008-08-20T17:20:37Z")
[QUOTE=BarnOwl] Check out the price of The Wrong Trousers at > **[Amazon.com: Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers DVD (an English Language...](https://www.amazon.com/Wallace-Gromit-Trousers-Language-Adaptation/dp/0194590070)** > > Join Wallace and his dog Gromit on their adventures. These adaptations of the world-famous animated film characters feature a cleaver story line combined with ingenious humor and brilliant characterization. LOL!! [/QUOTE] I don’t think that’s what you think it is: [http://www.oup.com/elt/catalogue/isbn/9610?cc=fr](http://www.oup.com/elt/catalogue/isbn/9610?cc=fr) [QUOTE=Galwegian] I love [Shaun the Sheep](http://www.amazon.com/Shaun-Sheep-Box-Set-Region/dp/B000WC8QAC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1219212912&sr=1-1), a spin-off from **The Wrong Trousers** believe it or not [/quote] I’d believe a spin-off from **A Close Shave** , which is where Shaun gets his name (sounds like “shorn,” kinda sorta, at least when Wallace says it). ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-wallace-and-gromit-movies-for-adults/460614/25 "2008-08-20T19:47:13Z")
[QUOTE=TWDuke] I’d believe a spin-off from **A Close Shave** , which is where Shaun gets his name (sounds like “shorn,” kinda sorta, at least when Wallace says it). [/QUOTE] Indeed it is. The Shaun shorts air in the States (infrequently) as interstitials on the Disney Channel. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-wallace-and-gromit-movies-for-adults/460614/26 "2008-08-20T20:45:49Z")
The W&G “Cracking Contraptions” short [The AutoChef](http://www.hulu.com/watch/30144/wallace-and-gromit-cracking-contraptions-the-autochef#s-p1-st-i0) has a couple of adult-ish references near the end of the short… [spoiler] when the AutoChef is going haywire near the end and is shooting tea from it’s tea-spigot-nose, Gromit puts a banana peel over it’s nose, the AC responds with “Some-thing-for-the-weekend, Sir?”, that’s a diplomatic way to ask if someone wants a condom just before the AC’s head explodes, it says “aww…knickers” (underwear), sort of a mild, kid-freindly “curse”[/spoiler] also, I believe the voice actor for the Autochef is the same voice actor that plays [Angry Kid](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_Kid) ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-wallace-and-gromit-movies-for-adults/460614/27 "2008-08-20T21:42:47Z")
[nostalgia] I first saw **The Wrong Trousers** in a shitty punk club in the early 90’s. There was a big wall of about 20 old 70’s TVs there which had been wired up to show the same picture, and when there were no bands on they used to play music videos, old cartoons, whatever took their fancy. One night someone put on a videotape of Wallace and Gromit, which had been recorded off the TV: it was the first time most people had seen it, and within five minutes the entire club - punks, skinheads, goths, indie kids, metalheads, bogans - were standing transfixed in front of this bank of screens: you could have heard a pin drop, until it finished and this huge joyous cheering whoop erupted from the crowd. That was it for music for the night: this whole club full of faux world-weary posers and skinny wannabes just wanted to drink beer and enthuse happily about just how cool a plasticine penguin on a toy train was until dawn. In a brief 30 minutes, Nick Park had achieved true punk glory by doing just what the hell he wanted, and we saluted him for it.[/nostalgia] ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-wallace-and-gromit-movies-for-adults/460614/28 "2008-08-20T21:45:43Z")
I watched a bit of The Curse of the Were Rabbit, and my grandkids aren’t ready for it. It’s quite funny, but beyond even my very smart cherubs. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-wallace-and-gromit-movies-for-adults/460614/29 "2008-08-20T22:31:09Z")
I still get a little upset over “The Wrong Trousers,” that Wallace could drive out his best friend so easily over a few shillings. :sad: (Not to worry, of course it all works out in the end.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-wallace-and-gromit-movies-for-adults/460614.md?page=1)