Back البنطال الخطأ Arabic De Forkerte Bukser Danish Wallace & Gromit – Die Techno-Hose German The Wrong Trousers Spanish شلوار اشتباهی Persian Väärät housut Finnish Un mauvais pantalon French המכנסיים הלא מתאימים HE Wallace és Gromit: A bolond nadrág Hungarian I pantaloni sbagliati Italian

The Wrong Trousers

The Wrong Trousers
VHS cover, with Feathers McGraw in the foreground
Directed byNick Park
Written byNick Park
Bob Baker
Brian Sibley
Produced byChris Moll
StarringPeter Sallis
CinematographyTristan Oliver
Dave Alex Riddett
Edited byHelen Garrard
Music byJulian Nott
Production
companies
Distributed byBBC Enterprises
Release dates
  • 17 December 1993 (1993-12-17) (US)
  • 26 December 1993 (1993-12-26) (UK)
Running time
29 minutes[1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£650,000[2]

The Wrong Trousers is a 1993 British stop-motion animated short film co-written and directed by Nick Park, featuring his characters Wallace & Gromit, and was produced by Aardman Animations in association with Wallace and Gromit Ltd., BBC Bristol, Lionheart Television and BBC Children's International. It is the second film featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis) and his dog Gromit, following A Grand Day Out (1989). In the film, a villainous penguin, Feathers McGraw, posing as a lodger, recruits Wallace by using his techno-trousers to steal a diamond from the city museum.

The Wrong Trousers debuted in the United States on 17 December 1993, and the United Kingdom on 26 December 1993 on BBC Two.[3] It was commercially successful, and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1994. It also inspired a charity fundraising day, known as "Wrong Trousers Day", one of several events.

The Wrong Trousers was followed by A Close Shave (1995), The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), and A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008). Feathers McGraw returns in the 2003 video game Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo and made a background cameo in the 2023 film Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget.[4]

On 6 June 2024, it was announced a sequel to the short in the form of a feature film, Vengeance Most Fowl.[5]

  1. ^ "Aardman Animations Present Wallace and Gromit in Nick Park's the Wrong Trousers".
  2. ^ "Aardman Animations – A Close Shave". telepathy.co.uk. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
  3. ^ "The Wrong Trousers (1993)". BFI. Archived from the original on 19 October 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
  4. ^ "Chicken Run 2's ending has a surprise crossover you might have missed". Digital Spy. 22 December 2023. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
  5. ^ "Wallace & Gromit's Christmas 2024 return adds Peter Kay, Reece Shearsmith". Radio Times. Retrieved 7 June 2024.

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