With his sister hanging on the Christmas tree, the Angry Kid (voice: Darren Walsh) is filmed giving the Queen’s traditional Christmas address, but he can’t get it right. 2 min.
The Angry Kid series of short-shorts have gotten a wide distribution via the Internet. While you can pay for them (a DVD is available), I doubt anyone would have seen them (or seen more than one) if they weren’t easy to get for free. At a cost of nothing, they are still overpriced.
Created at Aardman studios, which is also responsible for Wallace and Gromit, Angry Kid displays none of the wit of its more famous cousin. The animation technique is interesting (involving live actors with ever-changing masks filmed in stop motion), but without a script, or a funny joke, technique doesn’t mean much.
Queen’s Speech is below average for the series. The Kid flubs his lines in various ways while sitting on a couch. That’s all there is to it. Running under two minutes, it somehow manages to drag. There are better things to spend zero dollars on.