One day in their cozy house on Wallaby Street Wallace and Gromit are horrified to discover that there is no cheese for their crackers. Where is there cheese? wonders Wallace? Wensleydale, Philadelphia, Tesco...the MOON!!! As soon as he gets the idea Wallace builds his own rocket ship (that resembles the one seen in Tintin) in the cellar and heads moonward, only to find the place patrolled by some sort of sentient dishwasher/cooker fuelled by 10p coins, for some reason.
The animation is a little cruder here in the first short movie. It took Nick Park alone six years to make this as part of his film school project and is from a script that was originally much longer. The end result is a short that feels slightly hollow and random. That doesn't make it bad though, it was nominated for an Academy Award but lost to Creature Comforts (another Nick Park film). It's just a little too rough around the edges to be judged fairly with the more refined later shorts.
The animation is a little cruder here in the first short movie. It took Nick Park alone six years to make this as part of his film school project and is from a script that was originally much longer. The end result is a short that feels slightly hollow and random. That doesn't make it bad though, it was nominated for an Academy Award but lost to Creature Comforts (another Nick Park film). It's just a little too rough around the edges to be judged fairly with the more refined later shorts.