Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Collection (A Matter of Loaf and Death / A Grand Day Out / The Wrong Trousers / A Close Shave)
by Nick Park
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Actor: Anne Reid, Melissa Collier, Peter Sallis, Sally Lindsay, Sarah LabordeDirector: Nick Park
Brand: Lionsgate Home Entertainment
Writer: Nick Park
Producer: Carla Shelley
Producer: Christopher Moll
Producer: Colin Rose
Producer: David Sproxton
Producer: Michael Rose
Producer: Miles Bullough
Producer: Peter Lord
Producer: Peter Salmon
Producer: Rob Copeland
Writer: Bob Baker
Writer: Brian Sibley
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 242 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-09-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Lionsgate Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Collection (A Matter of Loaf and Death / A Grand Day Out / The Wrong Trousers / A Close Shave)
DVD Review: Winner if the Worst Commercial Packaging of the Year award!
Summary: 2 Stars
As far as the actual Wallace & Gromit films go, a solid 4 star rating, so I can't entirely justify a one star rating. But the packaging and presentation are inexcusable. Frankly, I think there should be strict laws against such anti-consumer releases.
First, four half hour films plus a handful of two-minute quickies could easily fit onto a single disc. Even with the bonus materials provided, two discs would be more than sufficient. (The bonus documentaries are merely OK -- not something you'd want to watch more than once. After you've seen one, the others seem fairly redundant.)
The big problem is it takes forever to get to the menu and the actual program content. A seemingly endless series of "previews" (these are properly called "commercials", folks) are forced on you before you get to the menu. Yes, you can hit the chapter skip button half a dozen times, but why should someone who has paid for a DVD be forced to do this? If the publisher truly believed anybody would actually want to see these previews, they would have offered them as an option on the menu, NOT a forced pre-menu screening.
To make their complete and utter contempt for their customers absolutely undeniable, the same barrage of ads is included pre-menu on each and every one of the four underlength discs. This is NOT a "marketing strategy." This is just plain insulting and sadistic.
I have seen some bad DVD releases, but this ranks among the all-time worst.
Anyone who cares even slightly about consumer rights should boycott any and all products from Lionsgate Home Entertainment.
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Description of Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Collection (A Matter of Loaf and Death / A Grand Day Out / The Wrong Trousers / A Close Shave)
Millions of fans agree ? no one makes animated mayhem like crackpot inventor Wallace and his faithful dog, Gromit. Join the Oscar®- winning sensations for four madcap adventures in their cheesiest, breeziest and funniest collection yet! Hang on for an out-of-this-world ride as Wallace?s mad craving for cheese leads to a space rocket adventure in A GRAND DAY OUT. In THE WRONG TROUSERS, Gromit smells something fishy after a penguin moves in and plots to make off with Wallace?s Techno-Trousers. Then it?s time for A CLOSE SHAVE as Wallace & Gromit? get wrapped up in a sheep-rustling scheme. Finally, trouble rises after Wallace & Gromit start a bread- baking business and are ensnared in a murder mystery that becomes?A MATTER OF LOAF AND DEATH!Looking for a fast way to earn dough, Wallace decides to make it. Armed with a batch of ovens, an army of robotic kneading arms and an old-fashioned windmill, Wallace & Gromit? start "Top Bun,? their new bread-baking business. Sales rise quickly and Wallace falls head over buns in love with a seductive bread-industry icon, Piella Bakewell. But when bakers suddenly start disappearing, Gromit realizes that his master is in danger as he follows a twisting, turning trail of crumbs to solve a murder mystery that becomes?A MATTER OF LOAF AND DEATH!
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