Lotus666
06-08-09, 09:59 PM
One from my own keyboard back in 2005...
Aardman Animation & Dreamworks Animation presents...
The Curse of the Were Rabbit!
"The Curse of the Were Rabbit"!
There is great excitement in the town. It is 4 days to the Giant Vegetable Competition - something that Lady Campanula Tottington's family has presided over for the last 517 years. Wallace and Gromit, in the guise of "Anti-Pesto", a "humane" pest control firm - are guarding the veggie patches of many valued clients. But danger is afoot, or should I say...apaw!
The film opens up with a looming and threatening figure about to raid a prize patch. The alarm goes out, and our intrepid duo arrive on the scene to capture...one lone bunny out to munch Mr and Mrs Mulch's prize pumpkin.
Taken back to Anti Pesto headquarters - the bunny is put with all the other little lettuce chompers in pens. Gromit slices and dices up the carrots and serves them up down the hatches and into the hutches! But the house is starting to bulge at the seams with the little breeding beggars!
Meanwhile, Lady Tottington sends out the call that her own patch needs minding. Out to the rescue go W&G - only to find a veritable bunny plague. Using their new invention, The BunVac6000 - they manage to round up the rascally rabbits, and go back to their bunny-bulging bungalow.
Now Wallace - ever the keen inventor - gets to thinking. If he combines his new untested invention, The Mind-o-Matic...with the BunVac6000 - he MAY be able to brainwash the bunnies into hating the taste of veggies...thereby enabling them to be released back into the wild. "Just a bit of harmless brain alteration - that's all!"
Harnassing the rays of the moon via lunar panels, with his device (in scenes reminiscent of Frankenstein, naturally!)...Wallace straps himself in, and turns it on - with disastrous results. One rabbit, Hutch, gets sucked up and down onto the contraption - head to head - with Wallace. Gromit smashes the contraption...and all appears alright - on the surface.
So begins the reign of terror with...THE WERE RABBIT! Without giving anything much away via spoilers...let's just say that a garden gobbling veggie monster rampages and ravages it's way around the sleepy little town each night on the full moon - which wrecks Anti-Pesto's reputation and business.
Can Wallace save the competition day with his crazy contraptions? Or will it be his silently stoic and loyal companion Gromit, who will once again come to his madcap inventor master's rescue? Will the terrified townsfolk turn angry lynch mob and kill the FrankenRabbit?
Action...suspense...mystery...and belching bunnies! This film has it all. Filled with bad bunny puns, fun film references, cheese (YAY) and dry, but gently rib-tickling, british humour...The Curse of the Were Rabbit is a cracking good film for children of all ages - 4 to 104!
Nick Park (inventor of W&G) co-directs this film with Steve Box. Taking 5 years to film using stop motion animation (claymation) - this is W&G's first full length feature film. The only bit of CGI is when the bunnies get sucked into the BunVac and are swirling around like dust bunnies caught in a whirlwind!
Peter Sallis reprises the voice of the whacky Wallace - the only choice of Nick Park's from the beginning. Gromit, silent as ever - remains totally expressive with his rolling of eyes and the tone of body movements. As ever, the interaction between these two give you just a wonderfully warm and fuzzy feeling.
Helena Bonham-Carter excels as the goofy and eccentric hare...I mean...heiress, Lady Capanula Tottington (Totty to her friends) who hosts the Giant Vegetable Competition. Bounder and cad, Victor Quartermaine (who is trying to steal her hand and fortune) is surprisingly well voiced by Ralph Fiennes, who comes complete with his own sidekick dog, Philip. (!) (This leads to one of the films funnier moments involving a fairground ride, and a flowery handbag!)
Peter Kay voices PC Mackintosh, and Mark Gatiss voices Miss Blight - two of the lesser known townsfolk.
Keep an eye out for many rabbit references, and a few subtle double entendres that will in no way spoil the film for younger audiences as they will fly straight over their heads.
Rollicking grand british humour - The Curse of the Were Rabbit is released onto the unwary film going public with excellent timing - just near Halloween. We attended advance screenings...the film is due for official release on Friday the 14th October.
If you're a fan of brit comedy, or a fan of W&G (or both) - then you must not miss this next evolutionary step in the Aardman Animation ladder.
This movie rates 10 bouncing bunnies out of 10!
Oh, and one last thing - this movie gives a very strong nod (in my eyes at any rate) to one of my all time favourite Jimmy Stewart movies, "HARVEY". If memory serves correct - the 6ft white rabbit pooka Harvey in that movie was always supposed to wear a bow tie. Also, in TCOTWR - there is a shop with a giant carrot on it with the name "Harvey". Makes me want to go out and buy that movie now - been a long time since I last saw it. I will certainly be going out to buy this one on release to add to my Aardman collection.
Aardman Animation & Dreamworks Animation presents...
The Curse of the Were Rabbit!
"The Curse of the Were Rabbit"!
There is great excitement in the town. It is 4 days to the Giant Vegetable Competition - something that Lady Campanula Tottington's family has presided over for the last 517 years. Wallace and Gromit, in the guise of "Anti-Pesto", a "humane" pest control firm - are guarding the veggie patches of many valued clients. But danger is afoot, or should I say...apaw!
The film opens up with a looming and threatening figure about to raid a prize patch. The alarm goes out, and our intrepid duo arrive on the scene to capture...one lone bunny out to munch Mr and Mrs Mulch's prize pumpkin.
Taken back to Anti Pesto headquarters - the bunny is put with all the other little lettuce chompers in pens. Gromit slices and dices up the carrots and serves them up down the hatches and into the hutches! But the house is starting to bulge at the seams with the little breeding beggars!
Meanwhile, Lady Tottington sends out the call that her own patch needs minding. Out to the rescue go W&G - only to find a veritable bunny plague. Using their new invention, The BunVac6000 - they manage to round up the rascally rabbits, and go back to their bunny-bulging bungalow.
Now Wallace - ever the keen inventor - gets to thinking. If he combines his new untested invention, The Mind-o-Matic...with the BunVac6000 - he MAY be able to brainwash the bunnies into hating the taste of veggies...thereby enabling them to be released back into the wild. "Just a bit of harmless brain alteration - that's all!"
Harnassing the rays of the moon via lunar panels, with his device (in scenes reminiscent of Frankenstein, naturally!)...Wallace straps himself in, and turns it on - with disastrous results. One rabbit, Hutch, gets sucked up and down onto the contraption - head to head - with Wallace. Gromit smashes the contraption...and all appears alright - on the surface.
So begins the reign of terror with...THE WERE RABBIT! Without giving anything much away via spoilers...let's just say that a garden gobbling veggie monster rampages and ravages it's way around the sleepy little town each night on the full moon - which wrecks Anti-Pesto's reputation and business.
Can Wallace save the competition day with his crazy contraptions? Or will it be his silently stoic and loyal companion Gromit, who will once again come to his madcap inventor master's rescue? Will the terrified townsfolk turn angry lynch mob and kill the FrankenRabbit?
Action...suspense...mystery...and belching bunnies! This film has it all. Filled with bad bunny puns, fun film references, cheese (YAY) and dry, but gently rib-tickling, british humour...The Curse of the Were Rabbit is a cracking good film for children of all ages - 4 to 104!
Nick Park (inventor of W&G) co-directs this film with Steve Box. Taking 5 years to film using stop motion animation (claymation) - this is W&G's first full length feature film. The only bit of CGI is when the bunnies get sucked into the BunVac and are swirling around like dust bunnies caught in a whirlwind!
Peter Sallis reprises the voice of the whacky Wallace - the only choice of Nick Park's from the beginning. Gromit, silent as ever - remains totally expressive with his rolling of eyes and the tone of body movements. As ever, the interaction between these two give you just a wonderfully warm and fuzzy feeling.
Helena Bonham-Carter excels as the goofy and eccentric hare...I mean...heiress, Lady Capanula Tottington (Totty to her friends) who hosts the Giant Vegetable Competition. Bounder and cad, Victor Quartermaine (who is trying to steal her hand and fortune) is surprisingly well voiced by Ralph Fiennes, who comes complete with his own sidekick dog, Philip. (!) (This leads to one of the films funnier moments involving a fairground ride, and a flowery handbag!)
Peter Kay voices PC Mackintosh, and Mark Gatiss voices Miss Blight - two of the lesser known townsfolk.
Keep an eye out for many rabbit references, and a few subtle double entendres that will in no way spoil the film for younger audiences as they will fly straight over their heads.
Rollicking grand british humour - The Curse of the Were Rabbit is released onto the unwary film going public with excellent timing - just near Halloween. We attended advance screenings...the film is due for official release on Friday the 14th October.
If you're a fan of brit comedy, or a fan of W&G (or both) - then you must not miss this next evolutionary step in the Aardman Animation ladder.
This movie rates 10 bouncing bunnies out of 10!
Oh, and one last thing - this movie gives a very strong nod (in my eyes at any rate) to one of my all time favourite Jimmy Stewart movies, "HARVEY". If memory serves correct - the 6ft white rabbit pooka Harvey in that movie was always supposed to wear a bow tie. Also, in TCOTWR - there is a shop with a giant carrot on it with the name "Harvey". Makes me want to go out and buy that movie now - been a long time since I last saw it. I will certainly be going out to buy this one on release to add to my Aardman collection.