Paladin
10-16-2005, 08:20 PM
Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit, starring the voices of Peter Sallis, Ralph Fiennes, and Helena Bonham Carter. Directed by Steve Box and Nick Park.
Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a wonderful, charming, very English mess of a movie. And I mean that in a good way. Wallace (Sallis) is an inventor, with most of his inventions focusing on his humane pest control business: Anti-Pesto. He's aided (more often than he knows, usually) by his equally smart dog Gromit. The two of them have a thriving business catching the rabbits which infest the family gardens in the village where they live. The big annual vegetable contest is coming, and they are called to the estate of Lady Tottington (Bonham Carter) where the contest is to be held to clear out all the rabbits. There they meet the Lady and her suitor, the crass hunter Victor Quartermaine (Fiennes).
With all the bunnies they've collected to now store and care for, Wallace decides to try a new invention to brain-wash the rabbits into no longer liking vegetables. Like most of Wallace's inventions, it doesn't work quite right, and Wallace end up accidently creating a were-rabbit... a beast that is part rabbit and part human, changing forms by the light of the moon. Victor and Wallace compete for Lady Tottington's affections, while trying to catch this monster which is rampaging through the gardens every night.
This movie shares two major things with another of my favorite movies of this year, Corpse Bride. The first is Helena Bonham Carter, who is rapidly proving her best roles are those where she is portrayed on screen by a lump of Plasticine and second are the lumps of Plasticine themselves. Again bucking the CGI animation trend, Wallace and Gromit is hand animated with clay figures. The claymation isn't as smooth as Corpse Bride, but stylistically it isn't supposed to be, and there are some scenes which are computer animated (but you really can't tell). Overall, I'd say movies are comparable... with Wallace & Gromit having the more interesting story and Corpse Bride having more interesting characterizations and the musical numbers (which I loved). See them both, but if you only see one, Wallace and Gromit is probably the (slightly) better choice. An excellent film, and probably will beat Corpse Bride out for the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. I just hope CB can get nominated in the musical/comedy catagory too, so they can both be winners.
On the smiley scale (1=low 4-high)
Fun: :bg: :bg: :bg: :)
Thrills: :eek: :eek:
Comedy: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Brain-Candy Factor: :jester: :jester: :jester:
And just to be this gets as much attention as Corpse Bride, five big-assed thumbs (out of five)
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Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a wonderful, charming, very English mess of a movie. And I mean that in a good way. Wallace (Sallis) is an inventor, with most of his inventions focusing on his humane pest control business: Anti-Pesto. He's aided (more often than he knows, usually) by his equally smart dog Gromit. The two of them have a thriving business catching the rabbits which infest the family gardens in the village where they live. The big annual vegetable contest is coming, and they are called to the estate of Lady Tottington (Bonham Carter) where the contest is to be held to clear out all the rabbits. There they meet the Lady and her suitor, the crass hunter Victor Quartermaine (Fiennes).
With all the bunnies they've collected to now store and care for, Wallace decides to try a new invention to brain-wash the rabbits into no longer liking vegetables. Like most of Wallace's inventions, it doesn't work quite right, and Wallace end up accidently creating a were-rabbit... a beast that is part rabbit and part human, changing forms by the light of the moon. Victor and Wallace compete for Lady Tottington's affections, while trying to catch this monster which is rampaging through the gardens every night.
This movie shares two major things with another of my favorite movies of this year, Corpse Bride. The first is Helena Bonham Carter, who is rapidly proving her best roles are those where she is portrayed on screen by a lump of Plasticine and second are the lumps of Plasticine themselves. Again bucking the CGI animation trend, Wallace and Gromit is hand animated with clay figures. The claymation isn't as smooth as Corpse Bride, but stylistically it isn't supposed to be, and there are some scenes which are computer animated (but you really can't tell). Overall, I'd say movies are comparable... with Wallace & Gromit having the more interesting story and Corpse Bride having more interesting characterizations and the musical numbers (which I loved). See them both, but if you only see one, Wallace and Gromit is probably the (slightly) better choice. An excellent film, and probably will beat Corpse Bride out for the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. I just hope CB can get nominated in the musical/comedy catagory too, so they can both be winners.
On the smiley scale (1=low 4-high)
Fun: :bg: :bg: :bg: :)
Thrills: :eek: :eek:
Comedy: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Brain-Candy Factor: :jester: :jester: :jester:
And just to be this gets as much attention as Corpse Bride, five big-assed thumbs (out of five)
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