Bonus features: A Grand Day Out: Nick Park audio commentary; "Amazing Adventures of Wallace & Gromit" featurette; 4 cracking contraptions -- The Wrong Trousers: Nick Park audio commentary ; "Inside the wrong trousers" featurette ; 3 cracking contraptions -- A Close Shave: Nick Park audio commentary; "How It Was Done" featurette; 3 cracking contraptions -- A Matter of Loaf and Death: "How They Donut", the making of A Matter of Loaf and Death; audio commentary with Nick Park (director) and Dave McCormick (editor); "Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures" video game demo; Bonus episode: Shaun the Sheep, "Off the Baa!". Title from container. Voices: Peter Sallis, Anne Reid, Sally Lindsay, Melissa Collier.
Contents:
The Wrong Trousers (62 min.): Wallace creates a pair of walking Techno-Trousers for Gromit. A penguin moves in and plots to make off with Wallace's trousers. A Close Shave (44 min.): Get ready for motorcycle chases, prison breaks, and dog food danger as Wallace and his newfound flock rush to save Gromit and his true love. A Matter of Loaf and Death (87 min.): 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 and Gromit start 'Top Bun,' their new bread-baking business. 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. A Grand Day Out (49 min.) : The adventures of Wallace and Gromit, an inventor and his dog, as they build a spaceship and travel to the moon in search of cheese.
Summary:
"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 and Gromit get wrapped up in a sheep-rustling scheme. Finally, trouble rises after Wallace and Gromit start a bread-making business and are ensnared in a murder mystery that becomes ... A Matter of Loaf and Death!"--Container.
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