With a New ‘Wallace & Gromit’ special due out imminently, I figured it had been long enough to do a quick rewatch ahead of ‘Vengence Most Fowl’ And starting it all was a movie about a sad refridgerator and the hunt for elusive moon cheese.

Im actually amazed at how fully formed ‘A Grand Day Out’ came out given this was their first stab at ‘Wallace & Gromit’ as characters, they basically nailed it on the first outing with what can only really be described as a ‘warm embrace from an old friend’ of a movie thats just…SO charming without even really having to try.

The plots littered with Jokes and UK in references, the characters are likeable, well rounded and satisfying, the direction and animation IS a little rough around the edges in places, but given this was animated in a shed in 1989 on a budget of 30p…this really truely is the ‘Tony Stark built this in a cave using junk’ of animated works.

with a limited voice cast (Basically just Peter Sallis playing a rather abscent minded Wallace here) and a tremendously upbeat orchestral score. I compel anyone not to watch this short and not feel its warmt or smirk at some of the visual gags at least once.

Its simple, but effective and the fact so many of the gags dont rely on witty one liners, but instead on facial expressions and ‘showing’ the audience rather than telling them, creates a level of versitility that I think is hard to beat honestly.

Absolutely worth your time. ‘A grand day out’ really, truely IS a grand day out!

source https://letterboxd.com/tytdreviews/film/a-grand-day-out/