# Wallace & Gromit movie to be released Oct. 14 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 26, 2005, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292 "2005-07-26T20:32:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/1 "2005-07-26T20:32:45Z")
“The Curse of the Were-Rabbit” is coming out this fall. Peter Sallis will again do Wallace’s voice; guest stars are Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter. Looks like it’ll be good. Any other W&G fans out there in Doperdom? Are you looking forward to the movie? Do you have any favorite stars/scenes/lines from past shows? My favorite line is Wallace’s to Gromit in “A Close Shave,” just after Gromit has escaped from jail: “A fugitive, eh? You’ll be hunted down, like… well, a dog!” Gromit’s expression is priceless. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/2 "2005-07-26T20:34:58Z")
I dearly love Wallace & Gromit! My favorite line is from **The Wrong Trousers** : “It’s no use prevaricating about the bush.” ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/3 "2005-07-26T20:38:11Z")
I love Wallace & Gromit. I bought DVD of shorts for “kids”. Of course I’ve watched it more than them. I am looking forward to the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/4 "2005-07-26T20:41:24Z")
\ I love Wallace and Gromit. Unfortunately, my enjoyment of this film will be lessened because of the untimely death of my own personal Gromit. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/5 "2005-07-26T20:49:24Z")
I’ve got October 7 on my calendar. [http://movieweb.com/movies/film.php?1399](http://movieweb.com/movies/film.php?1399) I imitate Wallace’s little finger wave when I’m pleased. “Crackling toast, Gromit.” ---
**Author:** ![Phish\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@Phish\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phish_Head)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/6 "2005-07-26T21:47:48Z")
Major **W&G** fan checking in… Favorite scene: [A Close Shave] When Gromit is flying in to the factory, busting through doors, shooting porridge, and is caught by the Evil Dog. The Evil Dog is holding Gromit’s propeller…and Gromit’s plane starts spinning around! LOL! Priceless! Question: Anyone know how long it took **Nick Park** and the gang to make this movie? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/7 "2005-07-26T23:25:41Z")
> [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > “Crackling toast, Gromit.” It’s cracking, I think. Favorite moment: When Feathers McGraw pulls off the rubber-glove chicken disguise and Wallace gasps and says “It’s you!” Maybe I should put that in a spoiler box. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/8 "2005-07-27T01:09:21Z")
W&G is only the second decent movie to come out of this year’s summer box office roster. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/9 "2005-07-27T01:29:00Z")
With W&G, the upcoming _The Corpse Bride_, and _Howl’s Moving Castle_ (and no Pixar in sight), this may be the first year that the Oscar slate for Best Animated Feature will be mercifully CG-free. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/10 "2005-07-27T01:43:41Z")
You don’t think _Robots_ and _Madagascar_ are shoo-ins? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/11 "2005-07-27T02:58:53Z")
[A Grand Day Out] Wallace: Gromit, that’s it! Cheese! We’ll go somewhere where there’s cheese! [The Wrong Trousers] (Wanted Poster): Have you seen this Chicken? [A Close Shave] Wendolene: Yer dog’s waiting. Wallace: Aye, I’d better see to him. The bounce has gone from his bungee. So much of the humor is sight gags that it’s hard to have favorite lines. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/12 "2005-07-27T05:08:19Z")
Dreamworks has announced they will be releasing a new DVD connection to tie in with the film: the three shorts: plus the ten new “Cracking Contraptions” shorts from the Internet, for the first time on DVD in the United States. Oh, I do enjoy a bit of gorgonzola… ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/13 "2005-07-27T05:23:10Z")
I like all the Self referential humor in W/G In A close shave… Feathers (From Wrong Trousers) Leaves a Message in Grommits Jail Cell. Also… the Portrait of the Shoulder Embrace is in each Episode. But I hate that W&G Has to ride Chicken Run s Coat Tails … I mean… If there was no Wallace and Gromit… there would have been no Chicken Run. Oh well… I knew the Movie was in the works for a year or so now (Probably took way longer than a year) … Glad to see that… it is going to happen. But W&G for those Unconverted Reading the Thread… Some of the Best stuff out there. Then again…MOST British Stuff is. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/14 "2005-07-27T09:55:23Z")
> [@NoCoolUserName](#): > > So much of the humor is sight gags that it’s hard to have favorite lines. [The Wrong Trousers] Grommit peering through the _eye holes_ in the box he’s hiding under. Laying the railway tracks at supersonic speed. [Chicken Run] “Chocks away!” (Cut to Toblerone chocks) 🙂 Too many others to mention. BTW are you guys aware of the _Creature Comforts_ short films? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/15 "2005-07-27T10:42:45Z")
I’m really looking forward to this one; I hope the transition to the big screen (and the alliance with Dreamworks) won’t have spoiled anything. I’ve been a fan of W&G since _the beginning_ - i.e. when _A Grand Day Out_ was released (and the _Creature Comforts_ shorts were in circulation) - not many people had even heard of it, or W&G, until after _The Wrong Trousers_ was released. Favourite moment: “No crackers, Gromit! We’ve forgotten the crackers!” - and the ensuing panic. ---
**Author:** ![Fromage\_A\_Trois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fromage\_A\_Trois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fromage_A_Trois)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/16 "2005-07-27T12:54:15Z")
[A Grand Day Out] The mice in the cellar watching the launch, and putting their sunglasses on. Gromit finding the answer to why the rocket’s not taken off - the handbrake’s on. [The Wrong Trousers] The malfunctioning porridge cannon. [A Close Shave] Gromit putting his head through the hole in the wall, to find it through a painting of a butcher killing a sheep. A photo is taken as evidence. All the sheep on the motorbike. [Chicken Run] The parallels to The Great Escape are very well done, in my opinion. [Creature Comforts] The attention to detail - while one character is talking in the foreground, something amusing’s happening in the background. In all of them. Most amusing. I can’t wait for the new one, I’m childishly excited! ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/17 "2005-07-27T13:02:17Z")
> [@Fromage A Trois](#): > > [The Wrong Trousers] > The malfunctioning porridge cannon. That’s from A Close Shave. Another line I say sometimes (to the amusement of no one else, naturally): “But what’s _wrong_ with Winsleydale?” ---
**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/18 "2005-07-27T13:14:01Z")
All of Gromit’s little sideways looks at the camera. “We tested this on Gromit, haven’t we lad?” His expression when the toaster (sans toast) pops up and he realises that there is jam on the way (Wrong Trousers) Grim “Here’s to paying guests” ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/19 "2005-07-27T13:32:49Z")
“Windows are our speciality!” I only found out recently that Aardman did Morph. I miss Tony Hart… ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/20 "2005-07-27T13:48:32Z")
“It’s the wrong trousers, Gromit, and they’ve gone wrong!” Can’t wait for the movie. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292.md?page=2)