Boring

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

By now most people, at least here in Britain, will be familiar with Claymation duo Wallace and Gromit and this is where it all started. Wallace is a Lancastrian man with a taste for cheese and Gromit his dog who actually seems to be the more intelligent of the two.As the story opens they are trying to decide where to go on their holidays; then Wallace realises that they are out of cheese… so decides to head to the moon as everybody knows it is made of cheese. We soon see that Wallace is also a bit of an inventor as he designs a rocket then builds it with Gromit. They get there and settle down to have a picnic… and find the moon is in fact made of cheese. They also find a coin operated machine which when activated doesn't approve of the damage the visitors are doing to the moon… it also sees a travel magazine they brought and dreams of skiing!This isn't the best of the Wallace and Gromit shorts but it is still a lot of fun and does a great job introducing the now familiar characters. The story is fun in a way that can be enjoyed by everybody from young children to the elderly. There is a great inventiveness about the story; I loved the fact that Wallace is an ordinary person; of course it helps that Peter Sallis does such a fine job providing the voice of the character. Gromit is equally good; managing to be a great character without making a sound; the way he is animated brilliantly shows what he is thinking though. Interestingly there is no real antagonist in this story… the machine on the moon isn't really malicious even though it provides a mild level of threat. Overall I'd definitely recommend this to Claymation fans; it is a must see for all fans of Wallace and Gromit of course.

Wallace (Peter Sallis) and Gromit have run out of cheese and this provides an excellent excuse for the animated duo to take their holiday on the moon, where, as everyone knows, there is ample cheese.Frankly, I never got the charm or appeal of the Wallace and Gromit animations, and do not really care or much of anything Aardman has done. It seems to me not much better than the old Gumby cartoons, and the humor largely escapes me.That being said, this is my favorite Wallace and Gromit. It is simple, effective, and has a nice story. We get a good sense of how brilliant (yet lacking in common sense) that Wallace is, and the moon robot is a good character in himself. What is his back story? Who cares!

Nick Park's Oscar-nominated first Wallace and Grommit outing is a strange and basic affair, but displaying all of the typical comic touches associated with his production.The lads run out of cheese at the weekend. So, acting upon an impulse and the myth that the moon is made of it; a rocket is hastily cobbled together and they're off into space.The moonscape is very imaginatively created. Strange lunar stalagmites of incomprehensible cheese sprout upwards conveniently for slicing. Time for a picnic. The world seems to be deserted except for a curious contraption that could only have come from Nick Park's mind. It's a cross between a domestic appliance, parking meter, and security guard. Wallace pops a coin in. It's very delayed-action, so he wanders off and leaves it.This gadget eventually switches on and assumes a strange sentience of its own. What follows is an odd-ball chase across the moon with Wallace coming within an ace of getting clobbered.This was the plasticine pair's first big-screen outing and the economies are obvious. The boys have a very coarse, unfinished appearance, unlike their smooth and slick representation in later works. If anything, they are more endearing and less stylised in this first production. Their characters are not yet fully formed.All's well that ends well. The boys blast-off home cheesated, whilst the bizarre lunar-guard learns to ski. Oddly, it seems no longer to be coin-operated.Strange and hilarious, well worth a watch. Presumably they don't live near Tesco.

Nick Park has delighted many with his unique creations. Wallace and Gromit is the best of the lot, though Chicken Run is great too. Although this is the weakest offering from them(some of the clay was a bit runny), it is still hilarious. Wallace is superlatively voiced by Peter Sallis, and it is pretty much a one-man show. I loved Gromit, and although he never speaks, his facial expressions are priceless. I loved the idea of Wallace thinking the moon was made of cheese, and the plot never ran out of steam. The scenes on the moon, with the yellow box on wheels, were well done too. in conclusion, although this is the weakest short in terms of quality, the one that started it all is well worth watching. 9/10 Bethany Cox.