How does Cinemaphile feel about Wallace and Gromit (and in general, Aardman Animation)? Been a while since we've had a thread about them, you know.
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How does Cinemaphile feel about Wallace and Gromit (and in general, Aardman Animation)? Been a while since we've had a thread about them, you know.
Aardman has been pushing some pretty mid products, but their back catalogue is solid. Wallace and Gromit is Kino, Curse of the Were-Rabbit is the shining gem on the crown of British Animation imo. Also, that Pirates movie wasn't too bad either! Shame it never got a sequel.
I've heard a lot about Pirates, I've been meaning to see it, I wonder why no one really talks about it as much.
It's a pretty solid flick all around, which is probably why no one talks about it. It's just consistently competent in every department, successful in exactly what it was trying to do. No home runs, but a solid game.
I watched Pirates once, and do not remember a serious flaw in it. So nothing objectively terrible.
As for Early man, actually the 2 big things that ruin the movie for me are:
>talking your team about not giving up and WE CAN DO IT happens too fast, even for a cartoon that exist in an exaggerated world
>the villain has a plan to sabotage the heroes' team, an evil Ace up his sleeve..... and a JUST FRICKING LUCK conveniently destroys his plans and nothing comes out of it
If you want to have a conflict in your story, THOU SHALT NOT resolve it too quickly and too easily. And if you cannot write a conflict, just do pure slapstick comedy without a serious conflict. Do not do anything halfway, that is major weaksauce.
Pirates is fun but a bit too snarky and American animated feature-flavored as a result imo (though the source material is also kinda like that). Early Man was quite disappointing but the Shaun the Sheep movies are great, specially the first one. I'm crossing my fingers on the second Chicken Run film. Oh an also Arthur Christmas is a good solid movie, not sure if that counts as pure Aardman since it's CG.
Anyway, AA are still THE champions of stop-motion filmmaking for me. Laika seemed like they got it early on but their latest movies seem to be making a point of missing the point.
Shaun movie was indeed fantastic. Never seen the 2nd one however, will...... someday.
It's an SD screenshot because I actually went to my library and rented the DVD.
The Pirates! adaption is weird because there's two versions of the same movie. There's the original English version that maintains some of the jokes from the books, and then there's the American/International version where they removed certain jokes (I guess for younger audiences) and even replaced one of the voice actors for whatever reason.
Aardman will always have a special place in my heart because of the original three Wallace and Gromit shorts: they're genuinely some of the greatest cinema ever made.
>Timeless
>Unique
>Charming
>Witty
>Imaginative
>Childlike wonder
Here are but a few words the one could describe them with.
My nostalgia goggles are probably blinding me but I legitimately think Wallace and Gromit is amazing.
As for the rest of Aardman...
>Chicken Run
Great but by no means perfect
>Curse of the WereRabbit
Also great but not as good as the original shorts
>Flushed Away
First one that was kinda bad... it's grown on me but it's still pretty mediocre
>Arthur Christmas
Fantastic and insanely underrated
>Pirates Band of Misfits (I'm American sorry)
Pretty good and also underrated albeit while still being to write home about
>Shaun the Sheep Movie
Great but not as good as the best of the show, still having a dialogue free movie (minus songs) is always great
>Early Man
The only one which is straight up shit, not defending it
> Farmageddon
Been meaning to see it
>Predictions for Chicken 2
It looks pretty bad but I'm hoping to be proven wrong
I am still mad Nick Park decided Wallace will die alone.
He's never alone, he's got Gromit! Gromit's a good lad.
You cannot frick your male dog. That's gay.
Oh, you meant as a love interest? Nah, that's gross! I just meant that Gromit would be around as his best buddy. Wallace will never truly be alone that way.
Wallace already has one true love, and that is cheese.
Very grateful. Without them I wouldn't had have any appreciation for stop-motion at all as a kid.
Imagine running out of clay lmao, homie just go to walmart! Haha
ELLO
Kino
heh
British character designs are always fricking hideous, they don't magically look good because they choose a tedious method of animation. Laika remains the best studio for the medium, their movies are super rewatchable, I've never felt the need to watch something like Shaun the Sheep more than once. Aardman is basically dead in the water at this point. Didn't they run out of clay too? Lol
Self hatred is not healthy.
Kino
They're great
Shaun the Sheep cures depression.
Kino
How does one Gromit get not one but TWO cute poodles?
Kino
Rex the runt is fricking kino
PEACE
AND PROFIT