Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray]

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:	06/04/2019
UPC:	0191329085646
Original Release:	2005
Rating:	G
Source:	Dreamworks Animated
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:25:00
Sales rank:	840

Special Features

Cracking commentary; Deleted scenes; How Wallace & Gromit went to Hollywood; Behind the scenes of The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; A day in the life at Aardman; How to build a Bunny; Stage fright

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Peter Sallis	Wallace/Hutch
Ralph Fiennes	Victor Quartermaine
Helena Bonham Carter	Lady Campanula Tottington
Peter Kay	PC Mackintosh
Nicholas Smith	Rev. Clement Hedges,Mrs. Mulch
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
Christopher Fairbank	additional voice
James Mathers	Voices
William Vanderpuye	additional voice
Nigel Pilkington	Voices,Various
Peter Kirchberger	Voices
Benjamin Völz	Voices
Melanie Pukaß	Voices
Stefan Staudinger	Voices
Hasso Zorn	Voices
Brian Beacock	Various
Johnny Yong Bosch	Various
Mona Marshall	Various
Cassandra Lee Morris	Various
Kaiji Tang	Various
Clement Nicholas Smith	Reverend Hedges
Peter Atkin	Mr. Crock (Voice)
James Mather	additional voice
Gavin Greenaway	Conductor
Julian Nott	Composer
Hans Zimmer	Composer

Technical Credits

Steve Box

Nick Park

Bob Baker

Mark Burton

Steve Box	Director,Screenwriter
Nick Park	Director,Screenwriter,Producer
Bob Baker	Screenwriter
Mark Burton	Screenwriter,Producer
Claire Jennings	Producer
Peter Lord	Producer
Carla Shelley	Producer
David Sproxton	Producer
Cecil Kramer	Executive Producer,Producer
Michael Rose	Executive Producer,Producer
Jenny Duffy	Casting,Casting
Bridget Mazzey	Special Effects
Rohan Claassen	Special Effects
Peter Sallis	Director
Ralph Fiennes	Director
Helena Bonham Carter	Director
Paul Alexiou	Special Effects
Rudi Holzapfel	Special Effects
Patrick Phillips	Special Effects
Alexander Beddow	Sound Effects
James Mathers	Sound Effects
Michael Elson	Executive Producer
Matthew Bristowe	Producer
Alasdair MacCuish	Producer
Begona Lopez	Producer
Geoff Foster	Sound Mixer
Danny Hambrook	Sound/Sound Designer

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.