Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf or Death
354263
Bought for a gift, the kids liked it. Purchase went smooth no problems, would order from same again.
126939
It is, of course, Dreamworks' prerogative to mock the cultural superiority of its animation rival, and the Dimco sequence here is a funny, much-needed dig at that company's Oceanic ambitions, as well as more recent celluloid excresences, such as 'Gladiator'.  I am even willing to overlook the hypocrisy of one giant globalising corporate company taking moral potshots at another.
The fact remains that, by removing all the things that made the best Disney films so potent, unforgettable markers in almost every adult's personal development (archetypal fairy-tale narratives with recognisable, but mythic characters we could identify with), and replacing them with a few superficial jokes and politically correct caricatures, 'Shrek' foregoes the resonance that might have made it memorable and important for generations to come.  It is also far too long, and not nearly as visually 'stunning' as the propaganda suggests.
562014
I have loved every frame I've ever seen of Wallace & Gromit from
Creature Comforts onward. Nick Park and his team spare nothing
to bring every detail gloriously to life. I love the wit and whimsy of the
stories and the sets, which I believe were all destroyed in a terrible
fire a few years ago, were marvels of imagination. Truly masterpieces
in every sense of the word.
1289416
A visually stunning but incredibly grim animated feature that extols the virtues of peace by depicting the ravages of war.  This is a treatise against squandering our gifts.  A lesson against technological advancements, which are not always in our best interest.  The story concerns a scientist (voice by Alan Oppenheimer, cousin of scientist Robert Oppenheimer.....the father of the atomic bomb), who soon finds his invention of a thinking robot used for nefarious means resulting in the annihilation of the human race.  Before he expires, this scientist creates nine homunculus-like rag dolls (Stitchpunks) as a penance of sorts.  The overly curious nature of his last creation, dubbed 9, results in catastrophe and death.  This is not a happy tale.  It's also not a very original one; it's obvious that more time and money was spent on the artistry, much less on developing a more complex story.  Still, it's not without a certain amount of excitement.  The ragtag homemade monsters are especially cool.  But it's definitely not a cartoon meant for children.
906511
I never had the original cereal back in 1989, but now I can enjoy something even better: The Return of Fruity Yummy Mummy in 2013!
The monster cereal initially panned by GM themselves as not being an official Monster Cereal is now, indeed, and official monster cereal!
Splitting the fruity atom, GM has created a brand new twist on a familiar 80s favorite: An orange-cream flavored cereal seems to work wonders for this colorful creature from the grave.
A childish dream in idle conversation. No one would have ever believed in a million years GM would even attempt such an effort.
But they have! And it's Frightfully Fun!
3535155
I just love Shaun the Sheep. The little sheep are just too cute for words. Even though there are no words, the expressive nature of the characters and soundtrack, make for an interesting view. If you love Wallace & Grommet, you will love this one to.
4958101
If you've ever killed a mouse with a claw hammer or a pair of pliers, then you might like this. It's not for everyone, but if you have a sick and morbid sense of humor, then Red Meat is for you.  The cartoons follow their own twisted logic, and end up in a place that most people wouldn't want to go. They are hilarious, if you like that kind of thing.
2459157
Don't you all find it odd and interesting that , the DOG, Mr . Peabody is highly intelligent and an intellectual. ALL TV dogs, thanks to hanna-barbera are DUMB, STUPID, or COWARDS. (Scooby-Doo). It is refreshing to see a cartoon with SOME educational value and done with good wit.  I don't think there has been another SMART canine. The closest
being BRIAN on Family Guy. But compared to peabody, Brian is a loser lol. Long Live Peabody!
1461465
I saw this in the gift shop at the Mesa Historical Society Museum when I visited to see the Wallace and Ladmo exhibit.  I didn't care for the cost at the time so I didn't buy it and had regretted it since.  Luckily I was able to find it online and promptly bought it.

Pat McMahon played Aunt Maude, among a half-dozen other characters on the show.  Gerald was his most famous character but Aunt Maude was probably my favorite.  (S)he was played as a crotchety old woman (not as a man in drag) that reveled to reading children (or in most cases, Ladmo) stories from her books, but they never had happy endings and always ended up with Ladmo crying.  The subversive humor behind this was totally unheard of for a children's show but I am sure it was more for their parents and adults who grew up watching as kids themselves.

While the book isn't very long and some of the stories are hit or miss, there are a lot of illustrations that go along with the stories.  Still, a good read at least for the nostalgia.
2666751
I give this three stars with a heavy heart. I really enjoyed the first and second films. The animation is as good as ever, the main characters as endearing as ever, but for me, the joke has gone stale. I found myself struggling to maintain attention and it was only with effort that I made it to the end.
2933778
I'm a huge fan of the Rick and Morty television series. I was excited for the comic book release, but to be honest, the show is of much higher quality. I still got a good chuckle or two out of the comics, but I was disappointed to see a typo in one of the news frames ("Insert clever news title pun"). Seeing the typo made me think that the creators of the show cranked out this comic quickly and were more focused on money than on content.
147137
By the time this show reached its third season, the joke was getting a little thinly spread. The plots became further away from the initial concept of two lab mice wanting to take over the world and more a showcase for the two lead characters' interaction. This however is not a criticism.

In TV the word 'formula' is dreaded. However, here the characters remain so endearing that the blueprint of every plot being vitually the same did not matter.

Most episodes followed this arc: -

1. Brain has a bizarre idea as to how to take over the world

2. To carry out this plan some equipment/money is needed

3. Brain comes up with an even more bizarre way to get said equipment/money

4. The plan fails due to Pinky's stupidity

5. The initial plan to take over the world is abandoned

6. Start over tomorrow night

Although there are exceptions, that basically sums up this and the previous two seasons but as the saying goes - If ain't broke don't fix it - and this formula was one that bore a lot of comedy fruit.

This show certainly beats some of the dross that graces our screens these days and had the nerve to demand that its audience had some intelligence.

Not laugh-a-minute but still a classic.

Ps .

I still can't believe that no-one has decided to revive these characters to star in a live-action movie (with CGI P&B of course).
1074501
We love the Wallace and Gromit movies and this compliments the others that we have. As usual they are funny and captivating and a great thing for children too. We have two that just love these and I'm sure you will too.
3693567
The film's conceit - reimagining Sherlock Holmes and Watson as mice - is an inspired one and the filmmakers offer a few glimpses of how the mouse world mirrors the human one. The Great Mouse Detective is a good film but not a great one what with so-so musical numbers (including one sung by Melissa Manchester - remember her?) tempered with a memorable performance by Vincent Price.

There's not too much difference from the previous DVD release for this film. New to this edition is a pretty superficial featurette entitled, "So You Think You Can Sleuth?" It gives a brief history of detectives and highlights some of the most famous in history. It also gives a brief example of a mystery for you to solve.

Ported over from the previous release is all-too brief "The Making of The Great Mouse Detective" which traces the origins of the film. It took more than four years to make blended computer animation with hand-drawn characters for the first time in Disney's history. We see footage of the voice actors giving line readings while Vincent Price speaks highly of his character, expressing his joy at being able to appear in a Disney film.

Finally, there is "'The World's Greatest Criminal Mind' Sing-Along Song" which allows you to sing along with Professor Ratigan's song and dance number.
3115517
When I ordered it, I thought it was the latest in the series of excellent Wallace & Gromit adventures, but they are "hosting" a TV show, similar to a PBS science special, and the grand kids and I ended up liking it a lot.
1381077
Twas the night before Hogwatch, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring... because the only person stirring was Death in a Hogsfather costume.

With the possible exception of Tim Burton, only Terry Pratchett could come up with such a deliciously warped idea and actually make it work. "Hogfather" follows Pratchett's tradition of gutsplitting fantasy-satires, and manages to mingle plenty of unsentimental observations about human nature with a feel-good message -- not an easy thing to do, especially in a Christmas-related book.

On the night before Hogswatch, the Auditors enlist the Assassins' Guild for a very special job: "delete" the Hogfather (think a tusked Santa Claus). For this, Lord Downey calls on the psychotically childlike Mr. Teatime -- and soon Death finds that the Hogfather has vanished. So he takes on the Hogfather's duties for the night, much to the disgust of his granddaughter Susan, who is trying hard to have a normal life.

But realizing that something is very seriously wrong with the world, Susan begins investigating terrible reasons that the Hogfather has vanished: belief in him has somehow vanished from the world, courtesy of Mr. Teatime, a locksmith, a wizard and a little gang of thieves. And the wizards discover that strange creatures are coming into existence, such as the Verruca Gnome and the Eater of Socks (not to mention Bilious, the Oh God of Hangovers).

Now Susan must somehow find a way to bring back the Hogfather -- or else despite all Death's best efforts (AND WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR HOGSWATCH, SMALL HUMAN?) the world will lose much more than a jolly fat anthropomorphic personification.

"Hogfather" is quite recognizably a classic Discworld novel, with in-jokes, cameos by much-beloved characters, and a deeply weird sense of humor ("And who is Archchancellor of this University, may I ask? Is it  Mrs Whitlow? I don't think so! Is it me? Why, how amazing, I do believe it is!"). And while the four main subplots seem scattered and sometimes unclear, as the book goes on they intertwine tightly and suddenly become very relevant to one another.

And since this is based on a Pratchett book, we're graced with some cynical views on humanity and the nature of belief -- and occasionally touching moments, like Death rescuing a little match girl. There's even a bittersweet edge near the end when Susan confronts the core of the Tooth Fairy's castle, and finds something very unexpected there.

But along the way, we're treated to plenty of hilarious dialogue (AND HAVE YOU BEEN A GOOD BO ... A GOOD DWA ... A GOOD GNO ... A GOOD INDIVIDUAL? the "Hogfather" asks Nobby), oddball characters and in-jokes (Bloody Stupid Johnson's bathroom). Barely a scene goes by without something to laugh at, whether it's Teatime's hysterically sick behavior or Death's attempts at yuletide jollity (including a list of things to do at each house, ending with a halfhearted HO HO HO).

The brilliant comedy hits a high note when Death invades a shopping mall's Grotto so he can have the children tell him what they want ("AND BE GOOD. THIS IS PART OF THE ARRANGEMENT. THEN WE HAVE A CONTRACT."), much to the dismay of the store owner.

Susan is not an entirely endearing heroine -- despite being efficient, strong and matter-of-fact, she's kind of chilly. But Death is always a lovable character, with his patchy understanding of human beings and his kindly personality... except to the Auditors ("When he spoke next, avalanches fell in the mountains. HAVE YOU BEEN NAUGHTY... OR NICE?"). The polite psycho Mr. Teatime makes an excellent villain, and Pratchett provides eccentric characters ranging from a hungover deity to the sweet, mentally-challenged Banjo.

"The Hogfather" is a Christmas story with a Discworld edge -- meaning it's funny and unique, but also riddled with deeper messages and sharp satire. Have you been naughty or nice?
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In this book, Edgar Wallace wrote a novel that is probaly one of the most entertaining pulp-style novels I have read. It has all the best elements of the typical pulp mystery: sudpense, action and diving right into the well-developed plot, and amusing characters. Although the book in some ways seems very derivative of Sir Arther Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes work ("The Hound of Baskervilles" comes to mind, with the supernatural elements). Honestly, I rather enjoyed the novel.

Although I did enjoy the book, one has to come across theobvious xenophobia preached throughout the book--the character Baldy constantly whines about how you cannot trust foriegners and anyone who doesn't speak the same language as you. Of course, the character, a police sargeant no less, is made up as a little bit of a forgetful dolt who cannot keep up with people's names, so one can make their own assumptions about Wallace attitudes on the subject; it still points to slight xenophobia, but one can still read the novel with an open mind when one considers the fact that this book to be first published in the early 1930s era. So, it's just an interesting fact to keep in mind.

So, with all of this in mind, one might want to pick this book up; it's definately one of those novels that may not be written to be the best literary work, but still has a great story, and hey, it's certainly a lot better than some of today's bestselling muder mystery crime novelists. And besides, this is the guy behind the original "King Kong"--who doesn't want to read the work of THAT guy, right? Other good books by Edgar Wallace include "The Colossos" and "The Daffodil Mystery." Check them out!