After Chicken Run, I expected the worst; but, actually, the transition to feature length is pretty much a success. Yet the series’ spirit isn’t wholly there: there’s too many humans and too much dialogue, Wallace’s inventions work a little too well, and the movie’s most memorable aspect, in the end, is just the little bunnies. (If they exist as collectible figurines, I’m interested. Well, I’m saying that to pretend like there are people somewhere dying to buy me presents if only they knew what to give me. It’s always pleasant, pretending.)

All in all a good movie, but Wallace and Gromit will be as good as in shorts. Although, come to think of it, I seem to recall I’d already been disappointed by the last short.