Gromit and Grip Shift

Fun day. Took the whole family to see the new Wallace and Gromit film, 'Curse of the Wererabbit'. As usual, Ardman Animation totally rocked. The animation style they have perfected. The sly tongue-in-cheek British humor was a fresh change to the typical slop that corporate Hollywood churns out now a days. They added enough jokes for the adults without going way over the heads of the kids. Very well done indeed. My wife and daughter loved it too. We'll proabably be going back to see it again. This looks to be one of the front runners for this years Oscar race for Animated feature. Along with 'Corpse Bride' and 'Howl's Moving Castle', these three films show great diversity with excellent stories, beautiful animation and great ACTING. Yes the animators and voice performers are acting, even though most people can't get their heads past it being a 'cartoon'. Sure 'Robots' this spring had incredible visual style and some nice humor, but overall it was not quite as good as 'Ice Age'. Like wise 'Madagascar' looked great but the monkeys and penguins stole the show. Dreamworks seems to be falling into a bad habit (after 'Shark Tale') of throwing money and big name stars to the voice acting and by passing quality stories. Unfortunately 'Over the Hedge' looks like it could fall in this category as well, too many big names, not enough story. But I'll still be there hoping.

Also picked up a new game for my PSP today, "Grip Shift'. It's a called a puzzle-platform-driving-action game. Quite a big claim for a little game. So far after an hour of playing, I really like it. Definitely not the typical racing game. I'll have to dig deeper into it before I post up a review. But so far so good.