Watching “A Grand Day Out” today feels as joyful as it did when I first saw it decades ago. Guaranteed to put a smile on your face.

A Grand Day Out | Wallace & Gromit

Wallace and Gromit enjoy a day out with a difference when a quest to find cheese prompts a visit to the moon.

Wallace & Gromit

(Surprisingly, it’s available on the Internet Archive (and also on Amazon Prime.))

I absolutely adore Wallace and Gromit: The characters, the voices, the stories, and of course, the animation. I especially love the expressiveness of both of their faces.

All three short films (the other two being “The Wrong Trousers” and “A Close Shave”) and the feature length movies (“Curse of the Were-Rabbit”, “A Matter of Loaf and Death”) are wonderful and endearing masterpieces of animation and storytelling. Hard to believe it’s been 35 years since Nick Park first introduced us to these brilliant blobs of plasticine.

I wish I had some Wensleydale to celebrate.

(H/T The Spaceshipper.)