The reviews here on IMDb for this first film short featuring Wallace and Gromit range the gamut from calling it the least enjoyable to the best. Having seen "The Wrong Trousers" and "A Close Shave", I guess I'd have to go along with those who say this was the weakest entry, but I'll have to qualify that by saying that I don't really care for any of them in the grand scheme of animated features. The principal characters don't strike me as particularly endearing, although Gromit's a dog, so I can cut him some slack. The story here seemed to move at an incredibly slow pace and I didn't have any kind of sense of what that yellow box on the moon was supposed to be. With the premise of the story having Wallace and Gromit heading for the moon in a spaceship to score some cheese, what it looked like to me was Gromit slicing off a piece of play-dough for his crackers. Have you ever tasted play-dough? Very salty. As for the story - very cheesy. The folks at Aardman may have been on to something with this one.
