The brilliant, amazing, perfect Wallace & Gromit short films - "A Grand Day Out," "A Close Shave," and "The Wrong Trousers" - are finally available on DVD in a package that treats them like the animated classics that they are. These award-winning shorts have been available on DVD twice before, once under the WB banner and once under Dreamworks. If you were a true Aardman fan, you needed both discs because the first featured excellent commentary by creator Nick Park and the second featured the equally great "Cracking Contraptions," a series of minute-long shorts from 2002 featuring everyone's favorite cheese-loving inventor and his brilliant dog. Finally, we have a package with both commentary and the "Contraptions" shorts plus a variety of other featurettes. If you don't own or have somehow never seen the three W&G shorts, this is a must-buy for your collection and we finally have the best DVD release yet.

"Cracking Contraptions" is like having brilliant deleted scenes from the short films or the equally awesome (and also Academy Award-winning) Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit. They only run a minute but they're funnier than most of the full-length animated films that have cluttered the marketplace lately. They'll make you miss Wallace & Gromit and hope that Were-Rabbit wasn't the last that we'll see of these claymation icons.

Um, can we pick none of them? Seriously, I'm such a huge Wallace & Gromit fan that it's hard to pick one as the "worst". How about the fact that it's been too long since the last adventure? Nick Park did confirm a few months ago that work had begun on "Trouble at' Mill" and that it would be broadcast in late 2008 on the BBC and PBS. Animation is supposed to begin this month and was co-written by Bob Baker who did the same on "The Wrong Trousers" and "A Close Shave". The return of Wallace & Gromit to British TV could be one of the entertainment highlights of the year. The "worst feature" is that we have to wait until the end of the year.

We're not a big fan of double and triple dipping but the Wallace and Gromit shorts have gone through so many people's hands (from WB to DreamWorks and now Hit) that it's forgivable. It's not just one studio trying to get your cash. It's getting spread around. And it's finally going towards the most complete product available to date for W&G fans. Don't miss it.