We as a family fell in love with Wallace and Gromit when we saw “The Curse of the Were-rabbit.” Last night we sat down and watched “Three Amazing Adventures.” While we weren’t as enthralled as we were with “Rabbit,” we did enjoy the movie quite a lot.
Wallace is a guileless bloke who enjoys building contraptions and eating cheese. He lives with his faithful dog Gromit who basically keeps him on track and is the brains behind the operation, although he never speaks.
In the first of our three adventures, Wallace discovers that he’s out of cheese. This is a huge tragedy in Wallace’s household, and he immediately contrives a way to get more. He will build a rocket and they’ll fly to the moon, which, everyone knows, is made of cheese. Getting right to work, he creates his rocket and they blast off, only to discover that the moon really doesn’t taste very good after all.
In our next adventure, we discover that a crime ring has set up shop right in Wallace’s own town. Sheep are being stolen and no one knows who the culprit is. One day, Wallace and Gromit are hired to wash the windows at a wool shop, and Gromit notices that something’s just not right. There’s a truck full of sheep parked out back, and he doesn’t think they’re supposed to be there. However, he ends up accused of the crime, and it’s up to Wallace, and his new little sheep friend, to save the day, get Gromit out of the slammer, and set at rest the mind of the sweet little shop owner.
We end the movie with a look at what happens when Wallace forgets that Gromit is more than just a dog and gives him a collar and leash for his birthday. If that’s not insulting enough, Wallace also comes up with a machine to take Gromit for walks so he doesn’t have to do it any more.
My favorite character is Gromit. His facial expressions are always a dead giveaway to what he’s thinking. He calmly takes care of business while Wallace is off on one of his tangents, and he never gets the appreciation he deserves. That’s part of the theme running through the show – we as the audience know what Gromit’s been up to, but Wallace remains innocently unaware.
This was a fun movie and I highly recommend it for your family. You will, of course, also want to rent “The Curse of the Were-rabbit.”
This film was not rated.
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