# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/41 "2005-09-12T06:13:15Z")
I love Wallace & Gromit. My favorite scene, after the mice with sunglasses, is poor sleeping Wallace, in _The Wrong Trousers_, being dragged through the heist. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/42 "2005-09-12T08:28:35Z")
The trailer is a tad lackluster, IMO, but I’ll be in line anyway. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/43 "2005-09-12T15:37:21Z")
I’ll be taking 6 year-old Kizarvexilla to see that one when it comes out. _Chicken Run_ is one of our favorite movies, and we only discovered _Wallace & Grommit_ afterward. But we’re devoted fans now. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/44 "2005-09-26T00:46:25Z")
> [@rjung](#): > > The trailer is a tad lackluster, IMO, but I’ll be in line anyway. 🙂 Ignore the trailer. It’s at least as good as, if not better just because of length, than the shorts! Also, don’t let Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter throw you off: they’re not celebrity voices for the sake of celebrity voices. Not only are their characters hilarious, they blend in perfectly to the W&G village (universe just doesn’t seem charming enough). Great visual gag from literally the first 30 seconds of the movie: Gromit graduated from Dogworts university ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/45 "2005-09-26T01:42:07Z")
Yes it is at least as good as the previous efforts. The short shown before it was also hilarious. I don’t know who it was by, it was a computer animated short about some penguins, a polar bear, and being lonely at Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/46 "2005-09-26T01:49:41Z")
> [@1920s Style "Death Ray"](#): > > Yes it is at least as good as the previous efforts. The short shown before it was also hilarious. I don’t know who it was by, it was a computer animated short about some penguins, a polar bear, and being lonely at Christmas. That was starring the penguins from Madagascar, who according to my gf were the best things about that movie. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/47 "2005-09-26T02:08:09Z")
> [@rjung](#): > > W&G is only the second decent movie to come out of this year’s summer box office roster. 🙂 No kidding; this year has been utter shiite for movies. I’m always looking around for a copy of _Electronics For Dogs_. Anybody know where I can pick up a copy? “It’s the wrong trousers, Gromit! The trousers–they’ve gone wrong!” BTW, while we’re talking claymation, does anybody know what happened to the _Spitting Image_ folks? We didn’t get much of their stuff over on this side of the Pond but they did a special on Reagan that was utterly hilarious. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/48 "2005-09-26T17:00:19Z")
> [@1920s Style "Death Ray"](#): > > Yes it is at least as good as the previous efforts. The short shown before it was also hilarious. I don’t know who it was by, it was a computer animated short about some penguins, a polar bear, and being lonely at Christmas. Being plugged in the advertising along with _Were-Rabbit_. “The Madagascar Penguins in: A Christmas Caper.” PDI/Dreamworks production. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/49 "2005-09-26T17:50:57Z")
> [@Stranger On A Train](#): > > I’m always looking around for a copy of _Electronics For Dogs_. Anybody know where I can pick up a copy? I’ve got a copy I can loan to you. It’s not in the best of condition, though. In fact, it’s a little dog-eared… ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/50 "2005-09-26T19:29:57Z")
My favorite scenes… from _The Wrong Trousers_ -During opening title sequence, the camera pans what I believe to be the wall of Wallace’s bathroom. The cast reliefs that are on the wall appear to be fish. They are, in fact, rocket-ships. -As the un-wake-able Wallace is being walked along the ceiling of the museum, we see in the out-of-focus foreground a small model showing pre-historic beings carrying spears and wearing loincloths; ostensibly for a hunt. They’re penguins. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/51 "2005-09-27T04:01:23Z")
In _A Close Shave_, W&G are hiding behind a fence. Wallace comments on Gromit’s predicament as an escapee from jail: “They’ll hunt you down! Like…well…a dog.” 😛 Sailboat ---
**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:** [September 28, 2005, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292/52 "2005-09-28T19:25:29Z")
I saw _Curse of the Were-Rabbit_ last night. It’s not as good as _The Wrong Trousers_, but it’s probably the equal of _A Close Shave._ Very entertaining. There was a cinemafull of kidlets, and the movie held their attention all the way through; they were entirely silent except for the regular punctuation of delighted squealing. There’s a handful of rather subtle jokes that make adults guffaw but go totally over the heads of the squirts. “May contain nuts,” indeed. If there’s any justice, it’ll be a massive hit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-movie-to-be-released-oct-14/314292.md?page=2)