When the going gets tough, I like to retreat into a parallel universe populated by clay figures with Yorkshire accents and an unmatched love of cheese and crackers.
With its endearingly quirky protagonists and puns aplenty, Wallace and Gromit’s The Wrong Trousers is the perfect remedy for feeling down in the dumps — or those days when you just want to forget about adulthood for a while. There’s Wallace, an inventor who makes up for his lack of hair with an abundance of teeth, and his silent canine companion Gromit, a beagle with a passion for engineering.
In The Wrong Trousers, the duo are forced to confront a sinister new lodger, a penguin who takes an interest in Wallace’s newly crafted Turbo Trousers. Along the way, tea is brewed, a cunning chicken disguise fools everyone, diamonds are in peril and a dramatic chase scene is carried out on toy trains.
While most animators these days seem more interested in selling you 3–D glasses than telling stories, there’s something so refreshing about Nick Park’s claymation creations and their physics–defying inventions.
So the next time you need a pick–me–up make a cup of tea, wrap yourself up in every blanket you can find and take a trip down memory lane with Wallace and Gromit. Anyone who thinks they’re too good for animated movies ought to wake up and smell the Wensleydale.
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