Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
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I’ve been an ardent Aardman fan since the first Wallace and Gromit short (A Grand Day Out), adored the short-lived Rex the Runt series, and—-while I thought ‘Chicken Run’ didn’t quite hit the spot—-I was itching to see this full length film film. It is, quite simply, brilliant. All the charm of the short W & G films is there, and the pace barely slackens over the entire 85 minutes. As usual, there are visual puns aplenty, as well as a lot of literary and film allusions, and you really need to watch it several times to pick everything up.
The plot concerns our heroes’ latest money-making venture: a pest control service called Anti-Pesto, which seems mostly to involve installing complex, hi-tech anti-theft devices in vegetable gardens and greenhouses to stop rabbits eating prize veg destined for the village Vegetable Show. Viewers unfamiliar with the world of giant leeks and prize marrows will think this is a joke, but it’s probably not too far from the truth. Wallace and Gromit, being gentle souls, can’t quite bring themselves to kill the rabbits they catch, so their home is overflowing with ultra-cute but ravenous bunnies.
