Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play There&s 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 (" It&s got to be easily turn-off-&-onable") 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 that&s really of no interest to anyone but themselves (Ideally they will be working class & perhaps a bit dim although it helps if they&re over-articulate in the way that dull people often are when someone suddenly feigns an interest in them) 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 you&re 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 & it&s 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 On the DVD 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 --Roger Thomas Actors The Great British Public David Rafique Writers Nick Park Format PALLanguage English Aspect Ratio 169
- 1771 Number of discs 1 Classification PG Studio Momentum Pictures DVD Release Date 17 Nov 2003