Wallace And Gromit - The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit

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Few cinema releases in 2005 took so much goodwill into the auditorium with them as Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and fewer still returned that goodwill in quite the same way.
Once more, co-writer/director Nick Park got all the basics right. Were-Rabbit is dynamically shot and lit, the plotting is ingenious, and the voice actors are cast to perfection. Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes get to have rare fun as the lady and (would-be) lord of the manor, while Peter Sallis again provides true northern warmth as Wallace.
However, the film's real charm lies in its background jokes and throwaway puns, and in the most visible signs of Park's absolute attention to detail: the fingerprint whorls sometimes left behind on characters' faces. Plenty of factory-line family entertainments fill in thousands of computer-generated extras with a mouse's click; but every single plasticine rabbit here - and a whole army of them occupies the screen at times - has been sculpted to be similar-but-different, with quirks in fur or facial expression. Such idiosyncratic labour methods, coupled to a joyous density of gags, means it’s perfectly suited to a DVD release.

Mike McCahill on 26th January 2006

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Cheese-loving Wallace and his canine chum Gromit are taking the local neighbourhood by storm with their humane pest-control enterprise 'Anti-Pesto'. However, when a mysterious vegetable ravaging beast begins attacking the town's sacred vegetable plot under cover of darkness, Lady Tottington commissions the dynamic duo to catch the fabled Were-Rabbit and save the day. 5 years in the making, Aardman Animation's extraordinary stop-motion animation delivers supreme entertainment once again.

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