A Matter of Loaf and Death
Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death is a 2008 British stop-motion short film. It is a Wallace and Gromit movie. The movie is a murder mystery. It was nominated for an Academy Award. It did not win the award.
Plot
Twelve bakers, including Bob, are murdered by a serial killer. Wallace and Gromit save Piella Bakewell and her poodle, Fluffles, when the brakes on their bicycle fail, and they fall. Gromit finds out there is no problem with their brakes, but she and Wallace are smitten. They and Piella perform a whirldwind romance. But Gromit is angered when Piella redecorates the house. After Piella tricks Wallace into her thinking after she bit her own arm, Gromit is muzzled and chained up and he has do dishwashing as a punishment. He watches helplessly as Piella tries to push Wallace to his demise into the grinder, but he is saved when Piella is struck by a swinging bag of flour, thrown by Fluffles. After she makes an angry outburst that she hates bakers and nearly exposes her true nature, Piella leaves but later drops by the next day to apologize with a cake.
Gromit and Fluffles arrive to the house as Wallace lights the candle. After Gromit and Wallace's struggle, the cake falls, revealing to be the bomb. They are attacked by Piella, who reveals that she detests bakers. In the chaos, the bomb ends in Wallace's pants; Gromit and Fluffles neutralize the explosion by filling the pants with dough while Piella jumps onto a hot air balloon and escapes, vowing to continue her assault against Wallace. However, her weight drags the balloon to a zoo and she ends up being eaten by a crocodile.
Main characters
- Wallace and Gromit, the main characters of the short.
- Piella Bakewell, who is later the villain of the short who is revealed to be a serial killer. She owns a poodle named Fluffles.
- Fluffles, Piella Bakewell's poodle who is later a love-interest to Gromit; Fluffles helps the latter neutralize an explosion caused by Piella, filling Wallace's pants with dough when the bomb ends in his pants.
- The Crocodile is a Nile crocodile from the zoo who devoured Piella Bakewell when her weight dragged the hot air balloon that she jumped onto.