Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Director: Steve Box, Nick Park Steve Box

Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/05/2018
UPC:	0191329061145
Original Release:	2005
Rating:	G
Source:	Dreamworks Animated
Language:	English
Time:	1:25:00
Sales rank:	34,070

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Ralph Fiennes	Victor Quartermaine
Helena Bonham Carter	Lady Campanula Tottington
John Thomson	Mr. Windfall
Mark Gatiss	Miss Blight
Vincent Ebrahim	Mr. Caliche
Geraldine McEwan	Miss Thripp
Edward Kelsey	Mr. Growbag
Dicken Ashworth	Mr. Mulch
Robert Horvath	Mr. Dibber
Pete Atkin	Mr. Crock
Noni Lewis	Mrs. Girdling
Ben Whitehead	Mr. Leaching
James Mather	Additional Voice
Nigel Pilkington	Various
Clement Nicholas Smith	Reverend Hedges
Peter Atkin	Mr. Crock (Voice)
James Mather	additional voice
Gavin Greenaway	Conductor
Nicholas Smith	Voices
Hans Zimmer	Composer
Julian Nott	Composer

Technical Credits

Steve Box

Nick Park

Bob Baker

Mark Burton

Steve Box	Director,Screenwriter
Nick Park	Director,Screenwriter,Producer
Bob Baker	Screenwriter
Peter Lord	Producer
Carla Shelley	Producer
David Sproxton	Producer
Claire Jennings	Producer
Cecil Kramer	Executive Producer
Michael Rose	Producer
Michael Elson	Executive Producer
Matthew Bristowe	Producer
Alasdair MacCuish	Producer
Begona Lopez	Producer
Jennifer Duffy	Casting
Geoff Foster	Sound Mixer
Danny Hambrook	Sound/Sound Designer
Graham Headicar	Sound Effects
Mark Burton	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

Heartening news for Wallace & Gromit fans who have waited a decade for the British clay-animated duo to return to the screen: Their first feature film, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, is just as funny, clever, and inventive as their trio of sublime short subjects (collected on Wallace & Gromit in Three Amazing Adventures). Cheese-loving inventor Wallace (indelibly voiced by Peter Sallis) and his resourceful, steadfast canine companion, Gromit, rank among the screen's great buddy teams. Curse of the Were-Rabbit > -- co-directed by W&G creator Nick Park and fellow Aardman Studios animator Steve Box -- finds them happily employed as the owners and operators of Anti-Pesto, which uses humane methods and ingenious contraptions to make local gardens rabbit-free. Things really get hopping on the eve of the annual vegetable competition, when Wallace and Gromit are hired by Lady Tottington (Helena Bonham Carter) to solve her magnificent garden’s rabbit problem. An untested Wallace invention, intended to brainwash rabbits into becoming anti-vegans, malfunctions; and soon a behemoth bunny is on the loose. Rabbit hunter Victor Quartermaine (Ralph Fiennes) is determined to kill the beast to impress Lady Tottington (to whom Wallace has also taken a fancy). Curse of the Were-Rabbit is brimming with Rube Goldbergian delights, gentle humor, and dazzling set pieces, such as Gromit's climactic airborne rescue of his friend and master who, typically, has gotten himself into a hare-raising pickle. It is one of the best films of the year, family or otherwise, and, with apologies to Wallace, not at all cheesy. The bountiful extras include Steve Box's own award-winning short film, "Stage Fright," segments devoted to the painstaking stop-motion animation process, and "A Day in the Life" at Aardman Studios.