Wallace & Gromit - The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (2005) Synopsis:
It's 'vege-mania' in Wallace and Gromit's neighborhood, and our two enterprising chums are cashing in with their humane pest-control outfit, "Anti-Pesto." With only days to go before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition, business is booming, but Wallace & Gromit are finding out that running a "humane" pest control outfit has its drawbacks as their West Wallaby Street home fills to the brim with captive rabbits.
Suddenly, a huge, mysterious, veg-ravaging "beast" begins attacking the town's sacred vegetable plots at night, and the competition hostess, Lady Tottington, commissions Anti-Pesto to catch it and save the day. Lying in wait, however, is Lady Tottington's snobby suitor, Victor Quartermaine, who'd rather shoot the beast and secure the position of local hero - not to mention Lady Tottingon's hand in marriage. With the fate of the competition in the balance, Lady Tottington is eventually forced to allow Victor to hunt down the vegetable chomping marauder. Little does she know that Victor's real intent could have dire consequences for her…and our two heroes.
Wallace & Gromit - The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (2005) Movie Review:
With only days to go before the Tottington Giant Vegetable Competition, humane pest-controllers Anti-Pesto, sees Wallace (Sallis) and Gromit on high alert. With the rabbit population trying their best to get their buck teeth into the big vegetables they have ever seen, Anti-Pesto are busier than ever. When Lady Tottington (Bonham Carter) charges Wallace and Gromit with the humanely removing the rabbits from her estate before her suitor Victor Quartermaine (Fiennes) brings his very big gun. Thinking they have the problem under control everything goes haywire when the full moon brings the biggest pest Wallace and Gromit they have ever seen, a creature of myth, the were-rabbit.
After Oscar success with the animated shorts, Nick Park brings his beloved creations Wallace and Gromit to the silver screen but can they make the jump to a feature length adventure? Of course they can and it is cracking!
When it comes to capturing the true essence of Northern England in plasticine there is no one better than stop motion experts at Aardman Animation. Now with the backing of DreamWorks, Nick Park and his creative team can bring their most famous characters to the silver screen for a full length cracking adventure. Loosing nothing of the charm and utter British-ness that made them such a firm family favourite in the first place, this is one of the best animated films ever.
To create a truly great family film you have to appeal to both the younger and older audience. Pixar and DreamWorks’ own ‘Shrek’ movies have achieved this and went on to make millions at the box office and the good news is that ‘Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit’ follows this formula. Youngsters will love the cute characters and fun storyline but the older will revel in the continuing run of movie references, double-entendres and sight gags that will have them laughing themselves silly. This is an extremely funny movie on so many levels and you really need multiple watches to take in every thing that the filmmakers have put on screen.
The animation itself is jaw-droppingly superb and surpasses anything you have ever seen before in either Wallace and Gromit’s animated shorts or any other stop-motion feature. The attention to detail is staggering but you can still see the figure prints of the animators on the models, revelling that they stayed true to the hand animated feel that made you fall in love with the characters in the first place. With action sequences that would give any Hollywood blockbuster a run for its money, this is edge of your seat action that never looses touch with its comedic under pinnings. Your heart will be racing one minute during the action packed finale only for Nick Park to throw in a gag that will have you laughing out loud.
Wallace and Gromit make the transition to feature length adventure with ease and the vocal performances bring Wallace and the new characters to life. A Wallace and Gromit movie would be nothing without the voice of Peter Sallis breathing life into everyone’s favourite cheese-loving inventor. Typically Northern, the eccentric, good-natured man is the embodiment of everything that is good about people from the region and Peter Sallis’s voice epitomises this completely. Coming into the fold are Hollywood superstars Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter as Victor Quartermaine and Lady Tottington, with both of them getting into the spirit of the Wallace and Gromit with ease. Add to this some great vocal performances from British comedic talents Peter Kaye, Mark Gatiss, John Thomson and Nicholas Smith and you have a recipe for a classic.
‘Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit’ is a classic and one of the best family films ever made. Directors Nick Park and Steve Box have transferred the magic of the Oscar winning shorts into an amazing feature length adventure that never looses any of its British-ness that made it so brilliant in the first place. The film is quite simply ‘Cracking’
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Wallace & Gromit - The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (2005) review written by: Jamie Kelwick
11th October, 2008 
