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Watched anything good lately?
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I managed to watch the other key Christmas TV bits today, to cap off the main TV events I was anticipating during the season!
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
I thought this was excellent! It’s been years since I’ve watched one of the Wallace & Gromit films, but this was very funny and definitely every bit as fun and charming as we’ve come to expect from the duo over the years! I enjoyed the somewhat modern twist with the AI/robot storyline, but also very much enjoyed the return of Feathers McGraw over 30 years on! Overall, I definitely thoroughly enjoyed Wallace & Gromit, and the new instalment fits in very nicely with the others as a thoroughly fun hour and a half! I do think a Norbot scene would be a nice addition to Thrill-O-Matic in Blackpool…
Tiddler
This was not exactly anticipated as such, but me and my mum decided to watch it out of nostalgia, as we always used to watch the animated Julia Donaldson specials when I was a child. I’m not really the target demographic, but I thought it was quite sweet!
Outnumbered
This was definitely funny enough and had some good laughs in places, but I do feel like it’s maybe lost something now the children are grown up. A lot of the charm of the original episodes came from the wild improvisation of the child actors, particularly Karen and Ben, and you don’t get that as much now they’re all adults. I also thought that the reasonable emphasis on cancer was maybe a tad depressing for a Christmas special. Nonetheless, it was still a fun watch with a few good chuckle-inducing lines, if not quite up there with the original episodes for me.
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
I thought this was excellent! It’s been years since I’ve watched one of the Wallace & Gromit films, but this was very funny and definitely every bit as fun and charming as we’ve come to expect from the duo over the years! I enjoyed the somewhat modern twist with the AI/robot storyline, but also very much enjoyed the return of Feathers McGraw over 30 years on! Overall, I definitely thoroughly enjoyed Wallace & Gromit, and the new instalment fits in very nicely with the others as a thoroughly fun hour and a half! I do think a Norbot scene would be a nice addition to Thrill-O-Matic in Blackpool…
Tiddler
This was not exactly anticipated as such, but me and my mum decided to watch it out of nostalgia, as we always used to watch the animated Julia Donaldson specials when I was a child. I’m not really the target demographic, but I thought it was quite sweet!
Outnumbered
This was definitely funny enough and had some good laughs in places, but I do feel like it’s maybe lost something now the children are grown up. A lot of the charm of the original episodes came from the wild improvisation of the child actors, particularly Karen and Ben, and you don’t get that as much now they’re all adults. I also thought that the reasonable emphasis on cancer was maybe a tad depressing for a Christmas special. Nonetheless, it was still a fun watch with a few good chuckle-inducing lines, if not quite up there with the original episodes for me.