Just perfect...

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

This is one early effort by famous claymation legend Nick Park. It's the one that came out at the very same time as his first Wallace and Gromit film and also gave him his first Oscar.I think it's a really good film to show your children, for example right after you took them to the zoo. It's about a bunch of zoo animals whose exposure to humans talking every single day has finally taught them a way to speak as well. And not only can they express their words via language, they also know how to gesture the appropriate way during a conversation in order to emphasize their opinion. So they're weighing in on the pros and cons of living on limited space behind bars (or glass walls). What I like the most is that it doesn't try to alter the viewer's opinion exclusively to one side, but approach the issue from both sides that there's good things as well as bad things to it. It's a nicely animated and educating little short film and I'd recommend it.If you like it as well, make sure to check out the TV show with the same names based on this one and made almost 15 years later.

'Creature Comforts' is a nice early work from the creator of the 'Wallace & Gromit'-shorts and the animated feature 'Chicken Run'. It shows a couple of animals in a zoo being interviewed. They tell what they like and dislike in the zoo and their cages. Especially a certain predator gets a lot of laughs while he is talking about the space he needs.Director Nick Park won an Oscar for this short film and it is not hard to see why. It is not only funny, but very well made as well. He developed his technique further with 'Wallace & Gromit' and 'Chicken Run', but 'Creature Comforts' already showed what Park was capable of. A terrific animated short, highly recommended.

You know Creature Comforts is going to be a great claymation film when you see that it is directed by Nick Park, the fellow who brought you Chicken Run and the Wallace & Gromit series. Creature Comforts is a series of claymation shorts. The first is Creature Comforts, which some might remember was aired sometimes in between shows on Nickelodean during the early 90s. It is a nifty idea, an interviewer asks zoo animals about their opinion of captive living to come to the conclusion that they'd rather be wild animals. I love the owl with the giant glasses. Another story works like The Man in the Iron Mask, where twin brothers separated from birth live in the same village. One is the king while another is an idyllic serf. When danger overtakes the castle, the serf brother is asked to take the place of his twin who wishes to flee danger. There's another one which is a sort of live action/claymation short about the creation of Adam and well...a kind of Eve.But the best, or at least my favorite in the series, is "Not Without My Handbag," which is more like a Tim Burton-esque kind of story of a woman who defaulted on her payments for Dante's Washing Machines and, as punishment, is taken to hell. But, she's floating around in pergatory until she can get her handbag. Everyone one of the shorts are a lot of fun. I have a hard time saying that any one Nick Park movie is better than the next because I love them all, but I think I love this one most.

Nick Park and co. won a BAFTA nomination for this clay-mation short in 1990, and went on to receive an OSCAR the following year. It's not difficult to see why.This early animated short from the Aardman team shows originality, intelligence and not a little sublimity. Julie Sedgewick (the only credited cast member, whose voice is hardly even featured) went out with a Nagra (or similar) tape recorder and interviewed a selection of people - mainly zoo visitors and people living in council-owned accommodation in the UK.Combined beautifully with some charming and cleverly interpreted clay-mation, the Aardman team have produced 'Creature Comforts', to worldwide acclaim.Very highly recommended.