The Wrong Trousers (1993) poster
1993 · animation · comedy · family · heist

The Wrong Trousers

Directed by Nick Park30m1993
  • cosy
  • kinetic
  • gentle
  • inventive
  • redemptive
  • tender
Movie DNA

Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno trousers created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wanted criminal.

Our read · The Wrong Trousers (1993) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · comedy · family entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want charming stop-motion invention and a clever penguin caper.

ends warmyou’ll feel glowing aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 3attention 4/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou want live action or plots that take themselves seriously.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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