The Wrong Trousers (1993)
Directed by Nick Park
Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno trousers created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wanted criminal.
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One such adventure, "The Wrong Trousers," even has a chicken in a key role.
(I have a toy model of one sitting in front of me as I write this, so, yes, I'll bet you do.) Park had already nailed three Academy Awards in the animation category for his work on two Wallace & Gromit shorts -- 1996's A Close Shave and 1994's The Wrong Trousers -- as well as an earlier work from 1991, the sublime talking-animal gag Creature Comforts.
Nick Park has already won three Oscars for his short animated films Creature Comforts , The Wrong Trousers , and A Close Shave , the latter two starring the Wallace and Gromit characters.
Beginning with the Academy Award-winning 1989 short Creature Comforts, and through his epic Wallace and Gromit mini-adventures The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave, Park has filled the mouths of his staunchly English, valiantly middle-class players clay-animated penguins and sheep as well as ladies and gents with soulful choppers: In good times and bad, the set of an Aardman jaw speaks volumes as said penguin, sheep, dog, woman, or man adapts with tea-and-toast-loving civility to unpredictable (and usually daunting) fate.
Park is the creator of the immortal Wallace and Gromit, the man and his dog who star in "The Wrong Trousers" and "A Close Shave."
Directed by plasticine geniuses Peter Lord ("Adam," "Wat's Pig") and Nick Park ("Creature Comforts," "The Wrong Trousers") and produced by both men with Aardman co-founder David Sproxton, the movie is as much fun as The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach combined, minus the sociopathic cynicism even Tim Burton seems to be outgrowing of late.
They also have an uncanny resemblance to the penguin from "The Wrong Trousers," for you Wallace & Gromit fans.