Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Published by Becky S October 5th, 2005 in arts
Thumbs-ups to Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit! Shorter-running cartoons don’t always translate well to full-length features, but the Wallace and Gromit movie is a welcome exception.
The movie is Beauty and the Beast meets Inspector Gadget meets Godzilla, with a lot of bad puns and good music. The story begins with the townsfolk preparing for the upcoming annual Giant Vegetable Contest; everyone, including Gromit, dreams of winning the coveted Golden Carrot. However, there are pesky, veggie-gnawing bunnies who run rampant, threatening to eat the produce and spoil the fun. I won’t give away any more, except to mention that the movie ends with stinky cheese and fluffy bunnies, and what’s not to like about that?
For those unfamiliar with Wallace and Gromit and their previous adventures: Wallace is a homely, cheese-loving, nutty-professor-type Brit, and Gromit is his silent dog who likes to knit. Back in the nineties, this duo visited the moon to replenish their cheese supply, wrestled with a shady penguin and a pair of mechanical techno-trousers, and landed in the middle of a sheep-napping operation.
Links to Curse of the Were-Rabbit trailers are here.
The BBC has a Wallace and Gromit short film available for download.
I love Wallace and Gromit features, a habit I owe to a handful (quite a handful at that) of neices and nephews who first suckered me into watching The Wrong Trousers several years ago while baby-sitting.
I’ll be all over this movie…
Where did you see this movie? I so want to see this!
Oh, and I believe that’s “sheep-nabbing operation.”
Hmmm…if people can get kidnapped, why can sheep be sheep-napped?
I saw a special preview on Tuesday night (at the Ritz 5 of all places), and I think the movie opens everywhere this weekend. Probably not at the Ritz, though–check your local listings.
Oh, I get it now. I had this weird idea about counting sheep to fall asleep, and calling that “sheep napping” (without hyphen), and… never mind. I’ll take my afternoon snooze now.
Why all the adjectives? Why not just say: “Wallace is the archetypal Brit”?
I thought about you when this news was splashed all over the national press. You’ll be pleased to hear that Wallace and Gromit survived the conflagration…but so many others didn’t. (I’m very distressed about the survivors of Chicken Run…becuase they didn’t survive this time.)
With your recommendation saw the film. I laughed from start to finish. And the 10 minute mini-film before the movie? Priceless.
I grew up watching Wallace & Grommit in the UK. They have always made me laugh.
Aha! I *knew* there was supposed to be a mini-film! They didn’t show it at the preview version of Wallace and Gromit, so I didn’t get to see it. Damn!