1989, UK
Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
::Flick Quickie::
After the popularity of Nick Park's Wallace and Gromit movies, a DVD was assembled of his previous endeavors in stop-motion experimentation. Included in this wonderfully quirky set are four short claymation films, all distinctly imaginative.
The first is Oscar award-winning "Creature Comforts," which cleverly illustrates the lives of zoo inhabitants using interviews from actual zoo keepers and elderly shut-ins. "Wat's Pig" is a medieval prince and pauper tale with the necessary addition of a swine side-kick. "Not without my Handbag" is the interesting tale of an aunt who refuses to die without taking her purse, and has a deliciously eerie Tim Burton style. "Adam" takes on the animator-as-God view, as the title character evolves from a blob of clay to a love-struck shaped blob of clay.
Unfortunately, there are no DVD extras, but the shorts are so fun and creative, and the disc quite inexpensive, that it is hard to refuse adding it to any movie collection.