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Good, good. I like it.

This is an interesting film. It makes you laugh a little bit, but I have to agree with Loop on this one, it's more clever than funny. But it's still good, mind you. It's great. The claymation wasn't the best considering this is Aardman, but it is smooth and believable. I love the Brazilian animal (what was that?). He was very well voiced. Creature's feelings about their living quarters in the zoo are an interesting subject to animate on, but isn't Aardman good at originality?

I have to say one of my favorite animals was the one crammed in with a bunch of other ones. That was what gave me the biggest laugh. A well-made animated film. Watch it and have fun.

This is a cute short, in the form of interviews with zoo animals about how they like their surroundings. It's very natural and believable. The animals give their opinions in such a genuine way that I have to assume the actors ad-libbed everything...or that they are actual interviews with people. (Though some quotes make that seem unlikely.) The clay critters are cute, in the Aardman style, and it's thought-provoking, though not roll-on-the-floor funny.

"Creature Comforts" is one of my favourite animated pieces of work of all time. It's very entertaining (I laughed my head off when the colourful 'chickens' entered the scene. It you saw what the two birds in the backgroud are doing you know what I mean) and the fact that the voices are real people interviewed about their lifes and such makes it even more brilliant (Nick Park used the same 'technique' in the "Heat Electric" commercials). A really great film!

I've seen 'Creature Comforts' a couple of times on TV, and both times it's been in the form of (what seemed to me anyway) about a half hour short, where the 'interviews' would cut back and forth between the different animals. Imdb gives it a running time of 5 minutes though, so I wonder whether what I saw wasn't compiled from various shorter films.

In any case this was the first time Aardman and Nick Park came to public attention. The idea is a series of interviews with zoo animals who talk about their living conditions, are they happy, and so forth. The actual dialogue though is unscripted, apparently recorded impromptu during interviews with people in nursing homes, etc. Pretty obviously this gives it an edge of social commentary and satire which is notably absent from the later works. Compared with 'Wallace and Gromit' it's actually rather slow and serious.

To be honest I found it more clever than funny. The claymation certainly isn't up to standard which Park would achieve with the W&G shorts either. It's still definately worth chasing up, though. I wouldn't mind seeing it again.