Creature Comforts Series 1, Part 1

Starring: The Great British Public Director: Nick Park, Richard Goleszowski Original UK Premiere: 2003 Dvd Release: 17th November, 2003 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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DVD Extras: The Creature Comforts Series 1, Part 1 DVD contains just the first six 10-minute episodes of the series. To add value, the disc also includes what is quite literally a making-of documentary, plus the original Creature Comforts short & sundry other items of interest.

Theres nothing not to like about Aardman Animations new Creature Comforts series, belatedly inspired by their Oscar-winning short film & the subsequent spin-off TV ads that turned out to be far more memorable than the product itself . But if you stop & think about it for a moment, Creature Comforts is an extraordinarily un-PC concept. First of all, identify some members of the public who are willing to drone on about trivia thats really of no interest to anyone but themselves. If they have a strong regional accent or are elderly, so much the better. Then sync up their interviews with a bunch of claymation cartoon animals, linking any extraneous noises to improbable snippets of on-screen action. Finally, sit back & watch as the very people youre patronising laugh their heads off at your efforts, thus proving that they were every bit as dim as you thought.

Cynicism aside, though, the ability of the British public to laugh at themselves is a national trait worth celebrating, & its brilliantly exploited here by the company that brought you Wallace & Gromit. On this first volume you get six episodes, of which perhaps the funniest is Working Animals, where we learn that egglaying is very repetitive & meet the greyhound who can never quite get his latest bit of portentous self-analysis out before the trap opens.

Nicholas Wulstan Park is a British maker of stop motion animation best known as the creator of Wallace & Gromit. Nick Park was born in Preston in Lancashire & grew up with a keen interest in drawing cartoons. He studied Commnication Arts at Sheffield Polytechnic & then went to the National Film & Television School, where he started making the first Wallace & Gromit film, A Grand Day Out. In 1985 he joined the staff of Aardman Animations in Bristol, where he worked as an animator on commercial products & completed A Grand Day Out. With A Grand Day Out in post-production, he made Creature Comforts as his contribution to a series of shorts called Lip Synch. Creature Comforts matched animated zoo animals with a soundtrack of people talking about their homes. The two films were nominated for a host of awards; A Grand Day Out beat Creature Comforts for the BAFTA award, but it was Creature Comforts that won Park his first Oscar. Two more Wallace & Gromit shorts, The Wrong Trousers & A Close Shave, followed & both won Oscars. Posters Of Chicken Run

Editors Choice: Wallace And Gromit, Chicken Run, Creature Comforts, James And The Giant Peach, View DVDology

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