Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Original title: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

2005
G
1h 25m

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7.5/10

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Animal Adventure Farce Slapstick Stop Motion Animation Adventure Animation Comedy Family Fantasy Mystery

Wallace and his loyal dog, Gromit, set out to discover the mystery behind the garden sabotage that plagues their village and threatens the annual giant vegetable growing contest.Wallace and his loyal dog, Gromit, set out to discover the mystery behind the garden sabotage that plagues their village and threatens the annual giant vegetable growing contest.Wallace and his loyal dog, Gromit, set out to discover the mystery behind the garden sabotage that plagues their village and threatens the annual giant vegetable growing contest.

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Won 1 Oscar
- 41 wins & 25 nominations total

Wallace
(voice)
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Helena Bonham Carter

Lady Campanula Tottington
(voice)

Ralph Fiennes

Victor Quartermaine
(voice)

Peter Kay

PC Mackintosh
(voice)

Nicholas Smith

Reverend Clement Hedges
(voice)

Liz Smith

Mrs. Mulch
(voice)

John Thomson

Mr. Windfall
(voice)

Mark Gatiss

Miss Blight
(voice)

Vincent Ebrahim

Mr. Caliche
(voice)

Geraldine McEwan

Miss Thripp
(voice)

Edward Kelsey

Mr. Growbag
(voice)

Dicken Ashworth

Mr. Mulch
(voice)

Robert Horvath

Mr. Dibber
(voice)

Pete Atkin

Mr. Crock
(voice)

Noni Lewis

Mrs. Girdling
(voice)

Ben Whitehead

Mr. Leaching
(voice)

Christopher Fairbank

Additional Voice
(voice)

James Mather

Additional Voice
(voice)

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Trivia
The film required 2.8 tons of Plasticine in 42 colors and 1000 baby-wipes per week to wipe it off animators' fingers.

Goofs
The prices in the fairground scene at the Giant Vegetable Contest are in the old pounds, shillings and pence, showing that this film is set before this form of currency was abolished on 15 February 1971 (indeed, Gromit's calendar in one scene shows that 1 September is a Thursday, so the latest this film could be set is 1966). Yet Pesto's technology uses LEDs, which didn't become available until the mid-70s, and diode lasers, which weren't available to the general public until about 2000. However, Wallace has been shown to be a genius inventor, it's quite possible he invented all of these things himself, long before the items became available to the public.

Quotes
[Quartermaine's hairpiece has been sucked up in the Bunvacc]
Lord Victor Quartermaine: I want...
[lowers voice]
Lord Victor Quartermaine: ... toupée, please.
Wallace: Oh, grand. We take cheques or cash.
Lord Victor Quartermaine: Toupée, you idiot! My hair is in your machine.
Wallace: Oh, no, it's only rabbits in there. The hare, I think you'll find, is a much larger mammal.

Crazy credits
Rabbits float up the screen during the closing credits. On the Sci-fi music, they flash in different colors. On the romantic music, two rabbits act romantic and sometimes fly in other directions. The final line in the credits is "We would like to stress that no animals were harmed during the making of this film", and a rabbit hits its head on the text and falls.

Alternate versions
When it was released in the USA, Wallace's line "How's your prize marrow of yours coming on?" was changed to "How's your prize melon of yours coming on?". This is most likely due to being that marrow was a common vegetable in the UK but not in the US. Strangely, US TV broadcasts such as on Cartoon Network and WGN America keeps the original line as well as Netflix UK prints uses the US version with that edited line.

Connections
Featured in At the Movies: Episode #2.31 (2005)

Soundtracks
The Planets Opus 32:2. Venus, The Bringer of Peace
Performed by Berliner Philharmoniker / Gustav Holst / Herbert von Karajan
Composed by Gustav Holst
Courtesy of The Decca Record Company Limited
Licensed by kind permission from The Film & TV Licensing Division, Part of The Universal Music Group

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Featured review

9/10

A film that stands out, politely so, a classic.

Something is ruining gardens, and consuming everything in sight, Wallace and Gromit must find out what, and save The Giant Vegetable Growing contest.

Loaded with cheeky laughs, slapstick, humour and sarcasm, it's a riot of a movie, one which tends to come out at Christmas time in our household, and for good reason, it's a film the whole family loves, and can appreciate, young and old.

It's sentimental, and of course it has heart, it looks amazing, the efforts that went into making it, staggering.

Incredibly and wonderfully British, as quintessentially British as cucumber sandwiches with the crusts cut off, and warm beer in a dusty old pub.

Even the hardest of hearts will adore this awesome movie. The shorts are forever great, this proves that shorts can thrive as feature length movies, it even picked up an Oscar.

When you look at the cast, they assembled so many greats, sad to see how many have passed away, Nicholas Smith, Geraldine McEwan, Liz Smith, even Peter Sallis.

I wish a few more movies had followed, but when you look at the time and effort that went into making this, you can understand why they weren't perhaps possible.

9/10.