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  • Directors: Nick Park, Peter Lord, Richard Goleszowski
  • Format: Animated, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Momentum Pictures
  • DVD Release Date: 20 Feb 2006
  • Run Time: 157 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000053F6E
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 10,121 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Synopsis
AARDMAN CLASSICS features the complete short films from Aardman Animations, the clever creators of CHICKEN RUN and WALLACE AND GROMIT. In addition to the hilarious Creature Comforts and the entire Heat Electric ad campaign it inspired, the release includes 'Wat's Pig', 'Pib And Pog', and more than 20 other animated shorts.

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56 of 57 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars First class material - deserves a better transfer., 18 Aug 2001
By Dennis E. Sisterson (London, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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Terrific films, interesting commentaries, nicely presented and with a nice booklet thrown in... what a pity the sound and image quality on the transfer aren't what they ought to be. On some of these films - including the newer ones - I had to strain to hear the dialogue, the sound quality was so muffled. Also the image quality isn't what you might expect from DVD; indeed the occasional momentary crease (in 'Pib and Pog' for example) gives away the fact the at least some of these films have been taken from low-grade video copies and not the original source material. 'Next' also suffers badly; you ought to be able to clearly read the names of Shakespeare's plays on the banners that drop down behind the actor at the end of his performance - you can't. The only good reason for buying this DVD would be for some of the older films which you might never otherwise see; if you already have copies of some of these films that you've taped on long play VHS from Channel 4, hold onto them - the sound and picture quality will be better than you'll get on this disc. Very disappointing.
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77 of 80 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars All Creatures Great & Small..., 23 Nov 2002
By Cllr Timothy Cox "Epideme" (Blackpool, UK) - See all my reviews
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If you like Wallace & Gromit, then you'll love this DVD. It features alot of the work done by Nick Park, but also other animators including the creator of Morph.

What you get:
Inside your case you get the DVD (obviously) and a 64 page book entitled "Insideaard" which is a description and history of Aardman Studios, the creators, and even a section on creating animations. While it features items from the DVD, it is not specifically about the DVD.

What's the DVD like:
The animated menus are quite good, with an ease to finding specific items. The items themselves range from adverts (like the creature comforts adverts; shot for Heat Electric, but oddly enough everyone associates them with British Gas...) to feature animations like "Wat's Pig". With 31 different items (including the 6 Oscar-winning Creature Comforts adverts), a behind the scenes commentary, and directors and animator's biographies, this DVD is certainly packed.

This is a must-have item for any animators, Nick Park or Wallace & Gromit fans, and with most of the items suitable for children, parents. The selection is varied and the quality is good. The behind the scenes commentary is excellent and insightful.

For me, one of the best things about this DVD though, is that because it is a collection of small items, you can watch 1 or 2 with a friend - when perhaps you wouldn't have normally had time.

More Cheese Gromit?

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Lots of varying quality content, 13 Dec 2000
Creature Comforts had the whole family in stiches. Excellent. Still, there was a lot of very ordinary content. I would prefer to have all this extra stuff however than make it shorter with just the best of the best. DVD can hold a lot of material, so why not put it in, right?

The supplied booklet is also a great idea, but is jammed in a standard DVD case and makes it rather awkward to close wit the DVD. They could have done a better job with that, but once again I'd rather have the extra material than not.

All up, worth buying.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Superb
I am quite astounded by the number of poor reviews as this is a magnificent collection of films. A uniquely British animation studios made famous for Wallace and Gromit, Aardman... Read more
Published 5 days ago by Callum Abbott

5.0 out of 5 stars Mixed reviews, but here's another opinion
This product as already mentioned by hundreds of other reviewers, compiles most of Aardman's best animations from the early 80s up to the mid 90s, these include the much loved... Read more
Published 11 months ago by F. Cairns

3.0 out of 5 stars No subtitles
Image quality and sound quality are bad on some of the older stuff and unfortunately there are no subtitles you can turn on. Read more
Published on 5 April 2006 by darrelljon

3.0 out of 5 stars An education in animation
For anyone interested in creating their own animations, this is a very interesting collection of Aardman snippets. Read more
Published on 25 Mar 2006 by T. Bobley

3.0 out of 5 stars aardman
it was good, well most of them some were very confusing im a fan of wallace and gromit if you like how its made more than the humar this is for you
Published on 19 Mar 2006

4.0 out of 5 stars Brillant! But, some of it boring!
A very good DVD, Pib and Pog is brillant! A childrens programme gone mad with comic violence, Creature comforts is also very good! Heat electric adverts, okay! Read more
Published on 3 Sep 2004 by stranger4001

1.0 out of 5 stars BORING...
This is the most boring Aardam's videos ever exsisted. I am a fan of Wallace and gromit and all his videos, but this is quite boring...
Published on 8 Jul 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have for Christmas
If you want to keep everyone from grannies to kids entertained over Christmas you need this DVD! We watched it 3 times over the weekend and kept noticing more stuff going on -... Read more
Published on 13 Nov 2000 by carolb@hotmail.com

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow! Animation at its absolute best and all on one DVD
This is what DVD was made for - a huge collection of short films allowing you to jump to your favourites and hear the commentaries for each one from the animators themselves. Read more
Published on 13 Nov 2000

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