{"id":6934,"date":"2009-11-02T18:59:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T18:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=6934"},"modified":"2009-11-02T18:59:15","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T18:59:15","slug":"uk-dvd-blu-ray-releases-monday-2nd-november-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/11\/02\/uk-dvd-blu-ray-releases-monday-2nd-november-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"UK DVD & Blu-ray Releases: Monday 2nd November 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DVD & BLU-RAY PICKS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Collection<\/strong><\/a> (2 Entertain): The most famous characters produced by\u00a0Aardman Animations<\/a> get the DVD & Blu-ray treatment with a box set release of\u00a0A Grand Day Out<\/a> (1989) which saw Wallace and Gromit fly to the moon in search of cheese; The Wrong Trousers<\/a> (1993), the Oscar winning short which featured a sinister penguin lodger; and A Close Shave<\/a> (1995) which involved a sheep rustling scheme.<\/p>\n

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It should be noted that the 2005 feature The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit<\/a> is not on this set (presumably for rights reasons as it was co-produced with DreamWorks<\/a>) but it does feature a decent selection of extras and the brand-new short A Matter Of Loaf And Death<\/a>, in which the pair run a bakery but come across a mysterious plot when all the bakers in the town go missing.<\/p>\n

For those unfamiliar with the famous characters, Gromit is the faithful canine companion of the cheese-obsessed inventor Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis<\/a>) and they are the brainchild of Nick Park<\/a>, who won Oscars for the first three films. All the characters were made from moulded plasticine modelling clay on metal armatures, and filmed with stop motion clay animation.<\/p>\n

Information about extras is a bit thin on the ground but apparently it includes:<\/p>\n