Leofwine_draca Although my favourite Wallace & Gromit film will always be THE WRONG TROUSERS, a 30 minute short which got absolutely everything right - I remember wearing out my old VHS tape of it - Nick Park originally made the characters back in the 1980s and their first outing was this 1989 short. It's a slightly cruder version of the characters we've come to know and love over the years, but the magic is there from the beginning and the seeds of greatness were sown here.The story is quite simplistic in this film and lacks the kind of quick-fire gags that the series became known for. The warm character humour is missing even though Peter Sallis is a delight as Wallace. The best thing about the film is Gromit, who seems to have appeared on the screen fully formed, while the doughy-headed Wallace needed a little more tinkering before achieving perfection in THE WRONG TROUSERS (the bit where he descends the cellar steps looks really, really dodgy). The trip to the moon is light and fluffy but there are some suitably bizarre elements to keep it moving. Needless to say, the Claymation effects are huge fun.

gavin6942 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!

Robert Such a basic film. Sure, it took many years and I must give the director much credit because of this. I wouldn't have the time nor patience to do something that I didn't know would or wouldn't work.The story was a bit basic, however. Going to the moon to take some cheese and eat it with your crackers. Plus, they obviously were in the story world because they didn't have any sort of gear to protect themselves.But you know, I don't really care. These days you have to have things perfect or with a good reason, else it isn't convincing. Back then people accepted things the way they were.Rated 8/10 :)

Polaris_DiB "Gromit, we've forgotten the crackers!" Wallace and Gromit are very funny, very cute little claymation characters that go on adventures so that everybody can have a good time. In this short, they go to the moon, because everyone knows it's made out of cheese, and cheese is what they want. When they get there, it's a bit different than they expected, but that doesn't stop them from exploring around and running into a little mischief with a robot thing that happens to be left there (and take Earthling money, too...).It's quite a charming little duo, this Wallace and Gromit. Wallace is the inventor with a smile on his face and the plans to do whatever he fancies, while Gromit is his concerned protector, chasing after him to make sure his master is okay. The claymation is of the finest sort, with their expressions perfect and a lot of depth to their eyes.Just remember: don't forget the crackers.--PolarisDiB