Word: shavings
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...universal acclaim, Park started contemplating ideas for a Wallace and Gromit feature. He’d already used Hitchcock in his short “The Wrong Trousers,” and paid homage to “Brief Encounter” in “A Close Shave.” He began thinking about forties werewolf movies. “We then started exploring ideas of creatures not eating children, but vegetables treated as if they are children,” he says. However, the allure of the movie is not in the plot itself...
...absurdity, he is thinking like a comic outside the den. The other day he told me about a letter home from his teacher regarding their class pets, complaining that, while at last permitted to feed the bearded lizards a few wax worms each morning, he could not administer a shave. My parents, understandably, voice a some concern about the adult content in “Family Guy,” which typically airs way past primetime. After all, Peter has a habit of talking about naughty things in a particularly naughty fashion. So why do I support my brother?...
...Maybe it's just the novelty of weaving around cars stuck in traffic jams, but the Parisian motorcycle taxi certainly seems to be the most fashionable way to commute around town these days. The two-wheeled wonders shave precious minutes from journey times, and at least four different companies (Citybird, Motojet, PLD and H?g? Service) scoot around the French capital. Clients are equipped with rain gear and helmets, and Citybird and H?g? Service customers get inbuilt two-way radios. A carry-on suitcase and two laptop-sized bags can be secured to the back of the bikes. Journeys within Paris...
...where the film’s creativity runs rampant, the plotting’s a little too timid for its own good. After raising the stakes with their last outing, “A Close Shave,” wherein the lives of the protagonists seem to be in genuine peril, the two reside in safer territory in “Were-Rabbit.” This time, anything that’s in mortal danger can generally be found at a salad...
...final work justifies every meticulous, monastic, masochistic effort. For longtime Gromit groupies and Wallace-y wonks, who know the pair from their early films A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave (the last two won Oscars for Best Animated Short), the new film proves that this endearingly odd couple can carry a feature-length film with easy poise. Newcomers will be charmed by the characters, then drawn into the suspense as a man is transformed into a killer bunny in a scene scarier--and even funnier--than Oliver Reed's hirsute metamorphoses in the old Hammer...