One evening, as a truck stops at a traffic light, a sheep escapes from it and hides in the house of window washer and inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit. As Wallace and Gromit wash a window of a wool store, Wallace becomes friends with its owner Wendolene, but her dog Preston secretly steals sheep to have wool and make dog food out of them. Wallace and Gromit team up with Wendolene to save a whole herd of sheep from slaughter in Preston's factory. Preston turns out to be a robot, but is crunched in its own mincing machine. As Wendolene reveals she doesn't like cheese, Wallace ends their relationship.
Compared to the excellent "The Wrong Trousers", every other "Wallace and Gromit" film is a step below in creativty, including the 3rd one, "A Close Shave", where the writer and director Nick Park simply wasn't that highly inspired. It again received critical acclaim due to its meticulous stop-motion animation and the friendship between Wallace and his dog Gromit, but "A Close Shave" is still only moderately fun. Only two moments truly stand out by some higher ingenuity: in one, while in prison, Gromit is piecing together a puzzle, and as it is completed it reveals a message: "Friday night 8 PM be ready. A Friend." Gromit looks at the calendar and his clock, and realizes it is Friday at 8 PM right now, as a sheep appears on the window and starts slicing the bars using a cutting machine. In the other, just as all the sheep escape from the back of a truck via a ladder to Wallace's motorcycle right behind it, the driver, dog Preston, hits the breaks of the truck, which causes the motorcycle to crash behind it and catapult all the sheep back into the truck. Other jokes are solid and fine, yet never really attempt to reach a higher level by conjuring up something more imaginative, as the movie slowly and steadily consolidates itself only into a movie for kids, and not a movie for both kids and grown ups.
Garde:++
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