#robin robin

Not my usual content but whatever this is my blog and I can do whatever I want :P

Oooh this one's hard!

Again, I still need to watch Robin Robin before I can list where I would put the Cat in the ranking. She does seem interesting from the little I've read/seen about her.

Flushed Away is amazing. Admittedly, kid me was hesitant about it at first, because it was CGI and not stop-motion, and I wasn't sure if I like Roddy at first, especially in those opening minutes, but the memes (before they were even memes!) snuck up on me and I ended up loving it. I think a lot of that is down to the Toad just stealing the spotlight the moment he appeared (I mean, it's Ian McKellen!).

That said, I think if it was just him, he might have outgrown his welcome - his partnership with Le Frog was what helped keep a lot of the jokes going throughout the movie. And, despite him intimating the characters and literally sticking rats in the freezer, I don't think he ever got really terrifying as a villain. At least not to me.

Preston, on the other hand, is intimating from the moment he's on-screen. I think he terrified me as a kid, I can remember being hesitant to watch A Close Shave, even though I loved Shaun and Gromit's arc because of it. His reveal was also extremely clever, it wasn't something you really saw coming, yet all the signs are there (Aardman pulling off plot twists long before Disney jump on the bandwagon XD).

But I think, even without him getting his own second movie, the winner spot has to go to Feathers McGraw. Maybe just for the nostalgia - I must have watched A Wrong Trousers a million times. But I think Feathers McGraw pulls off both the intimidating silence personality that you really can't tell what he's planning to do next, but also the fun, humorous side that is a staple in the W&G series. Preston had some funny moments (like the double take in the van, which Feathers actually sort copied in VMF), but there are just a ton more with McGraw. In a weird way, you almost start rooting for him (like when he's sweating buckets trying to secure the diamond, to him going 'oh duh' when he realises Wallace's password). Overall, I think he just works.

Now, if you had added Victor Quartermaine to this list (The Curse of the Were Rabbit, 2005), I would have to immediately rethink this order.

...I do think Feathers wins by just a smidgen (even though I do love CoWR just a little more than VMF).

Victor is extremely fun and does still have some sinister moments, but he's rather like the Toad, where he has perhaps just a little too many silly ones. He is also not quite an original concept, more a trope that has been done before in a bunch of films. Aardman was able to have a lot of fun with it though, and it shows, as Victor is still a fantastic character. But Feathers McGraw on the other hand just feels so uniquely tied to the W&G universe.

Still might be based fully in nostalgia - but the chicken wins!