Fresh
The final work justifies every meticulous, monastic, masochistic effort.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
Overview
Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal, Gromit, investigate a mystery in Nick Park's animated adventure, in which the lovable inventor and his intrepid pup run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods that turn their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.
Director and cast
- Steve Box Director
- Nick Park Director
- Peter Sallis as Wallace / Hutch
- Helena Bonham Carter as Lady Campanula Tottington
- Ralph Fiennes as Victor Quartermaine (voice)
- Nicholas Smith as Reverend Clement Hedges
- Peter Kay as PC Mackintosh (voice)
- Liz Smith as Mrs. Mulch
- John Thomson Cast
- Vincent Ebrahim Cast
- Geraldine McEwan Cast
- Mark Gatiss Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
95%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The finished article is so CGI-like that you wonder whether all that organic stop-frame stuff was necessary. Sorry, chaps.
Derek Adams, Time Out
Fresh
Despite its vocal distractions, this clay-animation comedy adventure managed to dazzle me with its sheer audacity and inventiveness.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Fresh
Not all the plot points make sense, but they don't really need to.
Tasha Robinson, AV Club
Fresh
There is something for everybody here: an unholy mixture of Philip Larkin and Bruce Wayne.
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
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