r/BritishTV • u/noggerthefriendo • 1d ago

Question/Discussion Anyone else feel like there were too many humans in the new Wallace and Gromit?

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u/h0mosuperior 1d ago

I feel like there weren't enough Norbots

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u/Stripe-Gremlin 1d ago

I honestly felt like there weren’t enough. In Were-Rabbit they had a whole community of memorable background characters who made the town feel alive, there was enough to fill a whole church. Here they were just a handful of like 20 people present in their town

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u/bfsfan101 1d ago

I think this was my biggest problem with it, it felt weirdly small compared to their last feature. It gave it a slightly cheap feel when the credits only had about 5 actors. I still think it would have been stronger as a short.

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u/Stripe-Gremlin 1d ago

I think that’s been Aardman’s problem post Arthur Christmas honestly. With no major studios backing them up, their movies have been noticeably smaller scale

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u/Super-Hyena8609 11h ago

It feels like a short expanded to feature length. Which I think worked well, it wasn't all over in a jiffy but it avoided much of the overblownness of the typical family feature film (the canal boat on the viaduct came close but at least that was still doing parody).

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u/PreferenceAncient612 1d ago

Im intrigued what improvement do you think you could add?

It was superb to me.

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u/No-Particular-2894 1d ago

Yes.  Part of the charm of the first three is the liminal emptiness of the world that's only few inhabitants are Wallace and Gromit 

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u/Samuelwankenobi_ 1d ago

Curse of the were rabbit had a lot of characters too they seem to have more in the longer stuff

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u/DrowninginPidgey 1d ago edited 1d ago

I really felt Vengeance Most Fowl dragged. It was shorter than Curse of the Were-Rabbit and yet felt like it just went on for ages. There was some proper funny moments but I dunno this one just didn't feel that same sense of magic as the previous ones. The world did seem very sparse and empty. I was really looking forward to it too. Last 15 mins were good but that doesn't make up for how the previous hour drags.