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| Genre | Kids & Family, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Starring Wallace & Gromit, DVD Movie, Wallace and Gromit: The Great Vegetable Plot, Animation, Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Bunny, Blu-ray Movie, Comedy, The Wallace & Gromit Movie, DreamWorks Animation, Action & Adventure See more |
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| Runtime | 1 hour and 25 minutes |
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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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A decade after their last hilarious short, the Oscar-winning A Close Shave, Claymation wonders Wallace and Gromit return for a full-length adventure. Daffy scientist Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis) and his heroic dog Gromit are doing well with their business, Anti-Pesto, a varmint-hunting outfit designed to keep their English town safe from rabbits chomping on prized vegetables. Wallace meets Lady Tottington (Helena Bonham Carter), who appreciates Wallace's humane way of dealing with rabbits (courtesy of the Bun-Vac 6000), and sets up a rivalry with the gun-toting Victor Quartermaine (Ralph Fiennes, enjoying himself more than ever). Creator Nick Park, with co-director/writer Steve Box, delivers a story worthy of the 85-minute running time, although it stretches the act a bit; the formula plays better shorter, but the literally hand-crafted film is a joy to watch. Taking a chapter from classic horror films, a giant were-rabbit is soon on the prowl, and the town is up in arms, what with the annual vegetable contest close at hand. (Anyone who's seen the previous three shorts knows who saves the day.) Never content to do something simply when the extravagant will do, W&G's lives are filled with whimsical Rude Goldberg-style devices, and the opening number showcasing their alarm system is pure Aardman Animation at its finest. Even though there's a new twist here--a few mild sight gags aimed at adults--this G-rated film will delight young and old alike as Park, like team Pixar, seems incapable of making anything but an outstanding film. --Doug Thomas
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : G (General Audience)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 2.4 Ounces
- Item model number : 2246539
- Director : Various
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 25 minutes
- Release date : October 5, 2005
- Actors : Various
- Dubbed: : French, Spanish
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish, French
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Unqualified
- Studio : Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B000CZ0PT4
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #17,941 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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For those unfamiliar with Wallace and Gromit, they are the main characters in a Plasticine universe designed by Nick Park. Up until now, Wallace (voiced by Peter Salis), a mild-mannered cheese-loving British inventor, and Gromit, his faithful and intelligent dog, have been the subject of shorter works, including two short films that garnered Oscars. Were-Rabbit builds on Park's success with Chicken Run to bring Wallance and Gromit to the big screen. This has allowed Park and his team at Aardman features to expand the small-screen universe to include a series of new characters, including Lady Tottington (voiced by Helena Bonham Carter), Wallace's love interest.
In this go-around, Wallace and Gromit are running a pest-control service called Anti-Pesto that is defending the gardens of their hometown from rabbits ahead of an upcoming Giant Vegetable competition at Tottington Hall. However, as the competition nears the gardens of the town are being ravaged by the Ware-Rabbit, an enormous beast with a taste for vegetables and fruits, and Wallace and Gromit have are in a race both to stop the beast and to win the hand of Lady Tottington from the bloodthirsty Victor Quartermaine (voiced by Ralph Finnes).
This is a fun, action-packed 85 minutes and you will be continually entertained by the new wrinkles and misdirection laid out by Park. The amazing thing about the way Park directs is that the most likeable and expressive character in this film is Gromit, who does not have a single line of dialogue. This film compares favorably to Chicken Run, and if you liked that 2000 send-up of The Great Escape, you will enjoy this parody of horror movies as well.
The script is well written and moves the action along nicely while hitting on some deeper themes (class cleavages, the perils of technology). The dialogue is generally crisp (or, as Wallace would put it, cracking), and the gags run from erudite to lowbrow. That said, even the directors mention that you should not spend a lot of time pondering some of the plot devices, and this is sound advice. If you finish the film and are asking yourself about the process by which Wallace could have been restored, well, you are probably thinking too hard about a plasticine movie.
Despite the fact that this film references some of the great and not-so-great horror movies of all time, there is nothing in it that is particularly scary and it is completely appropriate for small children. In this respect, it is even more well-crafted in terms of age-appropriateness than Chicken Run, which had a subtle chicken execution. There is nothing even remotely that dark in Were-Rabbit. Although there are a few double entendres in a film about melon-eating rabbits that may touch on racy, they are going to go right over younger viewers' heads and are nothing to be concerned about.
The only concern parents may have are some extremely subtle (and likely unintentional) jabs at Christian clergy in the person of the Vicar. I suspect that this is one of those things that you only find if you go looking for it, but the Vicar is shown with some occult items, putting holy water on his show vegetables, and possessing a copy of nun wrestling magazine. That said, everyone in Wallace and Gromit's world is a bit off, and a vicar with a nun wrestling magazine is less out of place when his paritioners are treating vegitation as though it were their child. If you are devout and easily offended by such things, you should steer clear of this film.
The special features on Were-Rabbit are average. There's a commentary with the two co-directors, but they seem more intent on watching the film themselves than providing significant insights. The Dreamworks for Kids features have some games that will occupy your children for a very, very short amount of time. There is a claymation short called `Stagefright' which is far darker than the film itself, and from my perspective not nearly as engaging. You also find out via one of the production featurettes that Wallace almost single-handedly saved Wensleydale cheese, and watching a plasticine rabbit get made is mildy diverting, but that's about it.
This is a great film and I recommend it for almost everyone. In an era where computer graphics has taken over filmmaking, Wallace and Gromit and their Plasticine universe remain interesting and new, and even though a few CGI effects were added to this film you will be hard-pressed to spot them. This film earned a well-deserved Oscar for best full-length animated film and has more than enough things going on to entertain viewers of all ages, even through multiple viewings. While the features are not particularly exciting, this DVD is more than worth the investment both for long-time Wallace and Gromit fans and people just looking for some generally clean family entertainment.
After years of short feature episodes, Wallace and Gromit finally have their full-feature chance. A seventy-five minutes long episode. Them during a September week as their county is preparing for a yearly vegetable contest which their Ladyship, Lady Tottington, organizes every year on her propriety. A competition that stresses and brings out mayhem for the chief police of the region. For the villagers, the chance to prove to everyone who has the best crops. And with rodents around, only Wallace and Gromit, with their latest Anti-Pesto pest control services, can make sure no rabbits, raccoons, squirrels, and other animals shall endanger people's chances to win. Although this year, another form of creature has started to appear. One that only the full moon can awake.
The Were-Rabbit.
With the voice performances of Peter Sallis as Wallace, Helena Bonham Carter as Lady Tottington, and Ralph Fiennes as Victor Quartermaine, who's the Ladyship's fiancee and main antagonist of the story, "The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" offers a stellar and wonderful cast of voice actors. With the proper personality and voice tones for their roles, each offers the right empathy, sympathy, or scorn their characters deserve. Emotions that also go along for the villagers, who we get to meet for the first time. Acknowledging some of their selfish nature as that vegetable competition makes them lose common sense. As for Gromit, whom the creators have kept mute instead of pulling a "Tom-and-Jerry" stunt which would have killed the character, he still holds the same charm, common sense, wit, and courage from his short feature films.
As for the movie, the movie absolutely does not drag. Its rhythm hops along nicely and offers quite a few wisecracking jokes and irony in its design, visual puns, and audio ones like a popular theme song from Art Garfunkel. Although Nick Park later stated that DreamWorks's suggestions were more obstructive than collaborative as they intruded with the show's humor and visual design (ex: Attempting to give Wallace a trendy car. As if that would make the movie more profitable!?). In the end, it was this conflicting atmosphere that broke their partnership. Nevertheless, Aardman managed to stick to their side and gave the same strong sense of humour and writing quality they've given to their movies.
In its animation, the clay work is stunning. Different character designs, fluid animation, everyone and everything '— especially rabbits — ' offers convincing body movements and clear facial expressions. As for the production design, I have to say the vegetables in that movie are stunning. So much that you'd think they're real and that you'd wish you could eat those crops. Again kudos for the crew on that movie which deserves its Oscar for Best Animated feature. At a time when they lost much valuable content to a fire just as the movie came out at the cinema.
For its Audio, I have to say the Dolby 5.1 sound on the British DVD edition (Region 2) offers a better beat rather than in the American copy (Region 1). As to how and why this difference between the two versions, I don,t know. But personally, I prefer the British's sound version to the movie as it offers the proper terms the American one was lacking (ex: marrow instead of melon). Even better, the Region 2 DVD has all the Cracking Contraptions episodes. A series of short misadventures Wallace and Gromit have with some of their inventions. Where in one episode, a special character even makes an appearance. And there are also deleted scenes, making of, and a commentary with the makers of this wonderful animated film.
Who, along with its characters, deserve all the worldwide praise they got since "A Grand Day Out" and many other productions (ex: Peter Gabriel's SledgeHammer, Babylon, etc.)
Seemed to get heavier on the puns as the show went on, some borderline raunchy but I think that is popular for parents showing the movie to kids.
Not sure if it's totally kid friendly as it might be a smidge scary for super young but maybe I'm too sensitive.
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Thank you Nick Park.
The Were-Rabbit.
With the voice performances of Peter Sallis as Wallace, Helena Bonham Carter as Lady Tottington, and Ralph Fiennes as Victor Quartermaine, who's the Ladyship's fiancee and main antagonist of the story, "The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" offers a stellar and wonderful cast of voice actors. With the proper personality and voice tones for their roles, each offers the right empathy, sympathy, or scorn their characters deserve. Emotions that also go along for the villagers, who we get to meet for the first time. Acknowledging some of their selfish nature as that vegetable competition makes them lose common sense. As for Gromit, whom the creators have kept mute instead of pulling a "Tom-and-Jerry" stunt which would have killed the character, he still holds the same charm, common sense, wit, and courage from his short feature films.
As for the movie, the movie absolutely does not drag. Its rhythm hops along nicely and offers quite a few wisecracking jokes and irony in its design, visual puns, and audio ones like a popular theme song from Art Garfunkel. Although Nick Park later stated that DreamWorks's suggestions were more obstructive than collaborative as they intruded with the show's humor and visual design (ex: Attempting to give Wallace a trendy car. As if that would make the movie more profitable!?). In the end, it was this conflicting atmosphere that broke their partnership. Nevertheless, Aardman managed to stick to their side and gave the same strong sense of humour and writing quality they've given to their movies.
In its animation, the clay work is stunning. Different character designs, fluid animation, everyone and everything '— especially rabbits — ' offers convincing body movements and clear facial expressions. As for the production design, I have to say the vegetables in that movie are stunning. So much that you'd think they're real and that you'd wish you could eat those crops. Again kudos for the crew on that movie which deserves its Oscar for Best Animated feature. At a time when they lost much valuable content to a fire just as the movie came out at the cinema.
For its Audio, I have to say the Dolby 5.1 sound on the British DVD edition (Region 2) offers a better beat rather than in the American copy (Region 1). As to how and why this difference between the two versions, I don,t know. But personally, I prefer the British's sound version to the movie as it offers the proper terms the American one was lacking (ex: marrow instead of melon). Even better, the Region 2 DVD has all the Cracking Contraptions episodes. A series of short misadventures Wallace and Gromit have with some of their inventions. Where in one episode, a special character even makes an appearance. And there are also deleted scenes, making of, and a commentary with the makers of this wonderful animated film.
Who, along with its characters, deserve all the worldwide praise they got since "A Grand Day Out" and many other productions (ex: Peter Gabriel's SledgeHammer, Babylon, etc.)
Well, if I thought Nick Park had reached great heights with A Matter of Loaf and Death, he rocketed past them with The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. The storyline is about as outrageous as you can get, but then anything is possible in modelling clay, but stick with it, there are some outrageous characters to go with it: Victor Quartermaine with his amazing wig; Lady Campanula Tottington with her corn-cob dress; Reverend Clement Hedges as the stereotypic vicar; all helped along with a star voice-over cast (the evergreen Peter Sallis, Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes, Peter Kay, Nicolas Smith, etc).
The star of the show is, of course, Grommit and the scene where he follows the Were-Rabbit down his tunnel while driving Wallace's van, is comparable with a Bourne car chase.
Everything, as always, turns out alright in the end - but to get there you have to follow the madcap characters and scenes invented by Nick Park, Bob Baker, Steve Box and Mark Burton.
Definitely one to watch in slow motion.
Anyway, having said all that, I did enjoy the film and, as always, it makes for a cracking good sit-down in front of the telly. I suspect that the fault lies with me and a somewhat jaded palette.
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