Wallace and Gromit, “The Wrong Trousers”, 1993
“The Wrong Trousers” is a 1993 stop-motion animated short film directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations, featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit. It was his second half-hour short featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis) and his silent but intelligent dog Gromit, following 1989’s “A Grand Day Out”, and preceding 1995’s “A Close Shave”.
As in “A Grand Day Out”, the thirty-minute film uses sight gags and exaggerated physical comedy and quiet moments, as well as a few subtle film parodies. The film premièred in the United States on 17 December 1993, and the United Kingdom on 26 December 1993. It won the 1993 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
The Aardman animations are some of the funniest films out there. Wallace and Gromit films are my favorites. “Chicken Run”, another film from Aardman Animations, is a great film about chicken escaping their coop (with references to Steve McQueen’s “The Great Escape”) and loaded with lots of sly humor. Lots of work and time go into making these films; worth seeing them all.