Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf or Death Movie Streaming
Vendredi, août 6th, 2010 |
Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf or Death Movie Streaming.
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Just getting a new Wallace & Gromit short is good news, but “A Matter of Loaf and Death” feels a whole lot like a remake of “A Close Shave.” It’s still rather entertaining, but it feels rather derivative. It also seems to use a lot more pop-culture gags than the older films did, though admittedly they’re old enough that they have become permanent fixtures on the pop-culture landscape and only one isn’t funny if you don’t know the reference.
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I would NOT get this single-disc release, though, because it is a cropped full-frame (1.33:1) when the movie itself was animated in widescreen. The documentary on the making of the movie is in anamorphic widescreen, and often reveals how cramped some of the cropped shots are. It seems that the 4-disc DVD complete collection is in full-frame as well. The Blu-ray of the Complete Collection presents this movie in its proper widescreen format (as well as “A Close Shave”), and should be the one you buy if you have a choice. The Blu-ray remasters the original shorts as well, and they look spectacular.
I admit to not having done my homework on this, but still… You have to be able to make an impulse purchase every once in a while without getting ripped off.
I was out shopping for a pack of batteries when I saw a new Wallace and Gromit DVD on the shelf. Didn’t know Nick Park had done anything since The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, so I quickly investigated. The front of the package said “All New Animated Feature” and the running time said 87 minutes. Now “feature” to me means a full-length presentation (as in “our feature presentation”)… a short might be called a featurette. So I assumed this was more than just a 30-minute short (which is what it actually is). They must have totalled all of the supplemental clips on the disc to get that “87 minute” total time. Nice.
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Also, since I couldn’t find a widescreen copy anywhere in the stacks, I guessed that this had been animated full screen. Wrong. Lion’s Gate apparently decided to release only a butchered pan-and-scan version of the short. I didn’t know anyone still did that these days. How ignorant.
While I’m sure this short is fun, it went back to the store unopened. I’ll wait for a better version to show up someday.
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