Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Theatrical Release Date: 2005 10 07 (USA)

UPC: 678149434323

Studio: DreamWorks

MPAA Rating: G   Contains:[Suitable for Children]

Summary: Eccentric inventor Wallace (voice of Peter Sallis) and his faithful if often perplexed dog Gromit are back in their first feature-length adventure from animator Nick Park. Wallace and Gromit have launched a new business venture just in time for a major gardening competition in their neighborhood of West Wallaby. "Anti-Pesto" is a humane pest-relocation service in which Wallace and Gromit capture rabbits and other critters who have been eating the produce from local gardens and give them new homes somewhere else. Business has been going well, and when the woman hosting the garden show, Lady Tottington (voice of Helena Bonham Carter), discovers a massive tribe of rabbits has been making a mess of her garden, she calls in Wallace and Gromit to move the bunnies elsewhere. Wallace is quite taken with Lady Tottington, but he's not the only one -- Victor Quartermaine (voice of Ralph Fiennes) is a slick but arrogant upper-class type who wants to win Lady Tottington's hand (and fortune) and is convinced he can do a better job capturing the rabbits than Wallace. However, Wallace's attempts to brainwash the rabbits away from veggies using his latest invention has disastrous results, and soon Wallace has to deal with a beastly bunny as well as a heavily-armed Quartermaine. Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit followed Park's previous film with the duo, A Close Shave, by ten years, and was produced after Park broke through to mainstream success with the feature Chicken Run. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Category: Comedy

Awards: Best Animated Feature – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Animated Feature – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Animated Feature – Dallas/Fort Worth Film Critics Association Best Animated Feature – Las Vegas Film Critics Association Best British Film – London Film Critics Association Best British Producer – London Film Critics Association Best Animated Feature – Phoenix Film Critics Association Best Animated Feature – Kansas City Film Critics Association Best Animated Feature – Toronto Film Critics Association Best Animated Feature – Online Film Critics Association Best British Film – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Producer of the Year - Animated Film – Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year - Animated Film – Producers Guild of America Best Animated Feature – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Animated Feature – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Features: Behind-the-scenes fun, including "How to build a Bunny"
"Stagefright" -- The award-winning Aardman short film
Deleted scenes with cracking commentary
Clayful activities, games, printables, and much, much more!

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Format: DVD

Release Date: 02/07/2006

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Pre-1954 Standard

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo

Runtime: 85 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English,Spanish,French

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
1. Anti-Pesto [6:22]
2. Technology [6:20]
3. Tottington Hall [4:57]
4. Rabbit Rehabilitation [5:12]
5. Vegetable Carnage [3:20]
6. Town Meeting [3:52]
7. More...Alluring [4:55]
8. Detective Gromit [4:28]
9. Totty's Garden [3:32]
10. Wallace's Transformation [6:19]
11. Rabbit Ears [2:15]
12. Lady Tottington's Visit [2:34]
13. At the Competition [6:39]
14. Dogflight [7:21]
15. Cheese! [6:10]
16. End Credits [4:07]

Mark Deming

While folks don't generally cite Nick Park as a major figure in the independent filmmaking movement, there's no arguing that he's a director who has created a handful of truly distinctive movies and a clearly recognizable creative voice while working entirely on his own terms, both within and without the Hollywood studio system. Park has fashioned a visual and narrative style every bit as strong as Wes Anderson or Paul Thomas Anderson, and he's a lot funnier than either of them, and half the fun of Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is seeing a movie that's so obviously the product of one man's (very witty) personal vision emerge as a tent-pole release for a major studio. Anyone who was afraid that the DreamWorks brass were going to mess with what made the early Wallace and Gromit shorts so much fun can breathe easy -- if The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a bit more manic in its pace and broader in its humor than A Close Shave or A Grand Day Out (which is probably the product of its 85-minute running time as much as anything else), the characters and their comic style remain thankfully intact, and if one buys into Chuck Jones' theory that an animator is really an actor, then Park and his crew have delivered Oscar-caliber performances as Gromit (whose eyes are more expressive than most human actors onscreen the same year) and Wallace (though Peter Sallis' veddy-British voice work certainly deserves a mention as well). Park and his collaborator Steve Box have packed their frames with layers upon layers of comic detail (if ever a movie was made with the DVD freeze frame in mind, it's this one), and in between laughs they've delivered a loving homage to the classic Hammer horror films of the 1950s and '60s, with a keen eye toward their shadowy visual style and color scheme. The humor manages to be smart and just a touch corny at the same time, and the laughs roll out consistently throughout the movie's running time. Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a thoroughly and delightfully enjoyable moviegoing experience, and an even better big-screen vehicle for Nick Park's gifts than Chicken Run. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Edward Kelsey  Actor 
Robert Horvath  Actor 
William Vanderpuye  Actor 
Ben Whitehead  Actor 
Geraldine McEwan  Actor 
James Mather  Actor 
Mark Gatiss  Actor 
John Thomson  Actor 
Vincent Ebrahim  Actor 
Dicken Ashworth  Actor 
Christopher Fairbank  Actor 
Noni Lewis  Actor 
Peter Atkin  Actor 
Hans Zimmer  Composer (Music Score) 
Julian Nott  Composer (Music Score) 
Nick Park  Director 
Nick Park  Producer 
Nick Park  Screenwriter 
David Sproxton  Producer 
Peter Lord  Producer 
Michael Rose  Executive Producer 
Michael Rose  Producer 
Mark Burton  Screenwriter 
Carla Shelley  Producer 
Bob Baker  Screenwriter 
Claire Jennings  Producer 
Michael Elson  Executive Producer 
Matthew Bristowe  Producer 
Begona Lopez  Producer 
Steve Box  Director 
Steve Box  Screenwriter 
Alasdair MacCuish  Producer 
Cecil Kramer  Executive Producer 
Peter Sallis  Actor 
Ralph Fiennes  Actor 
Helena Bonham Carter  Actor 
Peter Kay  Actor 
Nicholas Smith  Actor 
Clement Nicholas Smith  Actor 
Liz Smith  Actor 

Country: UK