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What's this? A positive review of Creature Comforts? You don't say!

"SOME of the best comic acting you'll see all summer will come from the animated clay animals starring in 'Creature Comforts.' An American version of a British series based in turn on a short film by Nick Park (the creator of Wallace & Gromit), it puts the unrehearsed words of ordinary people into the mouths of Plasticine dogs, cats, horses, pigs, porcupines, monkeys, pandas, crabs, sharks, roaches and whatever other animals seem appropriate or appropriately ironic to the subject or voice.

Topics are as varied as health, lying and sex, and the result is something both witty and complex — a kind of heightened reality television that, beyond letting you laugh at the funny juxtapositions and marvel at the animation, focuses your attention on the voices themselves, and what people have to say, and how they say it. A reminder that we're all at once individuals and types, and animals under our clothes."

Keep 'em coming. And take heed, Nielsen viewers.

Comments

[MsMamma]

Can't wait for it! It will be the best thing on national television.

[Donut]

We watched it. It was funny!!!! We saw your name in the credits!!! YAY!!!

[Rolf Chakras]

I saw two minutes of this - stoned - and didn't laugh once. (So I returned to a simpler time when women knew where and where not to use a razor.) Not even a muffled guffaw. I won't be viewing this UK-originated project under any head condition. Sheesh, our culture, or what's left of it, is easily entertained. So, Nick, um, Mr. Park, how does it feel to be judged worse than poorly filmed porn from the '70s? I didn't think you'd be too upset. Yeah, no stop motion for the latter, pal. I'll wager that all your female animals shave the carpet, too. Phhht!!!!

[employeemegan]

Interesting, Rolf. Perhaps if you hadn't been stoned you would have appreciated the show as anthropology as well as comedy, and not ventured off into a treatise on women's shaving habits.