The film featuring balding cheese-lover Wallace and his canine companion Gromit came out on top in the Academy Awards best animated feature film category.
Mr. Gosling was superb as the explosive lover in the director's previous film, "Blue Valentine, " and he's superb once again as Luke, a stunt motorcyclist with a traveling carnival who discovers that he has a baby son.
The screenwriter, Jeffrey Abrams, has a mind that channel-hops from AMC to Nick at Nite: he stuffs the film with old-movie gimmicks and sitcom devices, such as Gibson being able to propose marriage only when his lover is absent.