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Creature Comforts DVD Review & Clip
This has ‘great Christmas present’ written all over it.
Comprising the complete second series of Aardman Animation’s
beloved programme (those behind the wonderful Wallace & Gromit),
it also features a special to get you in the festive spirit
and is garlanded with enough extras to keep everyone quiet
after the turkey.
The episodes themselves may only be short, yet they’re
practically perfect. Amusing, yet in a very British way, the
delight lies in the marriage between the loveable claymation
characters and the eccentric voiceovers from “the Great
British public” themselves – my favourites are the geezer-boy
dogs, the funny little Sharpei and its puppy and especially
the grumpy old bats (‘What do you think about speed cameras?’
‘What did you say? Cucumbers?’).
The excellent extras feature that rarest of things, an
actually fascinating behind-the-scenes documentary, that takes
you from the original interviews with the public (many of whom
bear striking and somewhat scary resemblances to their
claymation incarnations) to the painstaking business of
drawing the characters, creating the puppets and producing an
episode – a journey that takes an obvious amount of dedication
and love. All this shows in the finished product, which is
utterly charming and well worth your forking out for this
lovely DVD.
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