Directors: Nick Park & Steve Box
Release Date: September 4, 2005
Stars: Wallace & Gromit
Rating: ★★★★★
Review:
After three excellent two-reelers British animation heroes Wallace and Gromit were ready for their first feature film.
‘The Curse of the Were-Rabbit’ elaborates primarily on the themes of ‘A Close Shave‘: love and horror. This time Wallace and Gromit are after a giant rabbit threatening the crops breeds for a vegetable contest in the village.
The stop motion animation in this film is practically flawless, elevating the century old technique to the highest standards possible. Indeed, both this film and ‘Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride‘, another stop motion film, were far superior to any computer animated feature film released in 2005 or 2006.
‘The Curse of the Were-Rabbit’ is not only a great animation film, it is great cinema, with excellent camera work, a flawless story, wonderful characterization and lean storytelling that builds to a spectacular climax. Especially the animation of Gromit is stunning, because his acting is completely silent throughout the picture and uses only the eyes to suggest emotion.
Watch ‘Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit’ yourself and tell me what you think:
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October 7, 2014 at 22:38
Grokenstein
We disagree on this one. Sadly, while it IS technically brilliant and the storytelling IS well-crafted (especially in comparison to something like Robots), Curse of the Were-Rabbit comes off as rehash to those who grew up with the beloved shorts, because far too many elements from them are dusted off and recycled here with minimum change. The movie’s “shocking revelation” is both telegraphed from the very moment of its inception and, in light of the limited suspects, inevitable.
W&G were already getting long in the tooth by A Close Shave, yet that was still a short that felt like an epic full-length movie, while Curse is a full-length movie that feels like a padded-out short.
October 8, 2014 at 09:37
Gijs Grob
I understand what you mean. I had the feeling you described when watching ‘A Matter of Loaf and Death’: how well-crafted it was, it felt to me as a reshuffling of the same cards. And, indeed, the ‘shocking revelation’ in ‘Curse of the Were-Rabbit’ is anything but that, but somehow that didn’t really matter to me, because in the film this story idea, more than a century old, gets such a ridiculous twist.
October 6, 2014 at 16:31
gilllpowell
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wow amazing!!!!