Every Wallace & Gromit film and episode – ranked from worst to best ...Middle East

This Christmas Eve marks the 30th anniversary of Wallace & Gromit’s classic A Close Shave.

As iconic a British duo as fish and chips – or more fittingly, cheese and crackers – Aardman Animation and Nick Park’s Wallace & Gromit follows the titular animated inventor and his dog. They go through a range of businesses and inventions that combine genius and disaster.

From 1989’s A Grand Day Out to last Christmas’s Vengeance Most Fowl, the characters have a timeless charm to them – just look at Wallace’s hand gestures or Gromit’s brow. And what better time than this anniversary to reminisce about over three decades of great animation?

These episodes aren’t the only chance to see an animated Wallace & Gromit – they’ve starred in everything from Cracking Contraptions shorts to DFS adverts and even the BBC Proms – but taking their full adventures into account (the four 20-30 minute episodes and two feature-length films) these are Wallace & Gromit’s most iconic escapades, ranked from a reluctant worst to a difficult-to-decide best.

6) A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008)

Wallace & Gromit are bread bakers under threat from a serial killer, in their first half-hour episode in over a decade. This one is notable for the brand new business Top Bun, and it’s also the last film to feature Peter Sallis’s Wallace voice acting before his death in 2017.

The only criticism here is compared to the other three short films, it lacks an individual scene as iconic as A Grand Day Out’s rocket launch, The Wrong Trousers’ train track sequence or A Close Shave’s inverted pyramid of motorcycling sheep.

This is the kind of episode you’d only put as their worst if absolutely pushed, though. Make no mistake: A Matter of Loaf and Death is anything but half-baked.

5) A Grand Day Out (1989)

So much for starting off simple. Wallace & Gromit’s first instalment is a far-fetched introduction as they fly to the moon for cheese.

They would grow as characters and the graphics would get more advanced, but there’s an unquestionable charm to the characters. Even this early, there are plenty of laughs (forgetting the crackers just before blast-off) and it’s a remarkable achievement in animation for what was still the 1980s.

“It’s like no cheese I’ve ever tasted!” says Wallace, eating the cheese from the surface of the moon. Similarly, the world of animation had never really seen anything like this.

4) A Close Shave (1995)

In this episode, Wallace & Gromit are window cleaners with the company Wash ‘n’ Go. It is notable for the first non-Wallace speaking role by Anne Reid, voicing customer and love interest Wendolene Ramsbottom. Robotic dog Preston also joins a line of excellent villains.

It’s testament to Aardman Animation’s ability to create memorable characters that they made a successful spin-off franchise out of Shaun the Sheep, first seen here.

3) Vengeance Most Fowl (2024)

Last Christmas’s Wallace & Gromit adventure, the first since 2008, was a straight-to-TV full-length film that saw Wallace invent a robotic garden gnome called Norbot.

A review from The i Paper in 2024 described the time spent making this as “time well spent… the twee, sweet and decidedly British franchise remains a delight”. Ben Whitehead makes a fine new Wallace voice actor, while there are silly visual puns (Gromit’s Roo Lead record and Virginia Woof book), as well as heartfelt moments that made it great Christmas Day viewing.

The best thing about Vengeance Most Fowl is how it has one foot in nostalgia (the return of Feathers McGraw) and another in topicality (the dangers of smart tech), while never feeling like something that would age poorly.

2) The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)

There’s no rule book for adapting a franchise of half-hour episodes into a full-length film. The Curse of the Were-Rabbit could have not worked at all – would the innocent charm of the characters be lost on the big screen?

But working with Dreamworks, the animation company behind Shrek (2001) and Aardman Animation’s own Chicken Run (2000), this did not disappoint, and remains a great watch two decades on. It isn’t a Christmas film, but I personally can’t make it through the festive period without watching it at least once.

The plot sees Wallace & Gromit try to protect the town from a giant rabbit with their Anti-Pesto pest control business. It introduced a host of new characters – Lady Tottington (Helena Bonham Carter), Lord Victor Quartermaine (Ralph Fiennes) and PC Mackintosh (Peter Kay) – boasting a star power that never diminished the level of humour and familiarity of the previous episodes.

1) The Wrong Trousers (1993)

“Have you seen this chicken?”

For TV viewers of the 90s, you’d be hard-pushed to find someone who hasn’t seen Feathers McGraw, the penguin-disguised-as-a-chicken villain first introduced in The Wrong Trousers.

Wallace invents some techno trousers, which Feathers, staying in the spare room, uses to try to steal a diamond. From the first look into Feathers’ sinister beady eyes to Gromit laying down train track pieces at great speed, this is animation with huge levels of heart and creativity. It’s just one classic visual moment after the other, culminating in Feathers being caught in a milk bottle.

A Grand Day Out was a fine first episode, but this was arguably the moment at which Wallace & Gromit was truly immortalised, aging into something special like a great cheese.

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