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93
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79
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76
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73
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71
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69
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67
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65
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64
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62
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61
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61
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58
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57
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57
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
55
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55
Nim's Island
55
Baby Mama
54
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54
Get Smart
53
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49
Hancock
48
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
47
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44
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41
Drillbit Taylor
37
Made of Honor
37
Shutter
37
Speed Racer
36
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36
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35
Jumper
34
Happening, The
34
10,000 B.C.
33
Superhero Movie
31
Deception
24
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22
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xx
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xx
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xx
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80
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76
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47
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80
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59
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55
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60
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70
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49
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83
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83
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78
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52
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64
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73
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84
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52
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79
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62
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64
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51
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57
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86
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63
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60
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45
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55
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69
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74
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63
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68
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34
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55
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69
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60
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62
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63
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30
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33
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53
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75
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52
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71
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84
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72
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51
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71
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54
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70
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72
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79
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62
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37
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64
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66
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55
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72
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64
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67
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75
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86
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86
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84
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84
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83
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83
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83
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83
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83
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82
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81
Tell No One
80
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80
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79
Reprise
79
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79
Visitor, The
78
Counterfeiters, The
76
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76
Shotgun Stories
75
Young@Heart
75
Mongol
74
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73
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72
Woman on the Beach
72
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72
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72
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71
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71
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71
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70
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70
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70
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70
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69
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69
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69
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68
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68
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68
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67
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66
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66
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64
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64
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64
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64
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64
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63
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63
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63
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62
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62
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62
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62
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61
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61
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60
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60
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60
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59
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57
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56
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56
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56
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55
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55
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55
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55
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55
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54
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53
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52
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52
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52
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52
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51
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51
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51
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49
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47
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45
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38
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37
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34
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33
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30
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29
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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
DreamWorks Distribution LLC
FILM:
GAMES:
MPAA RATING: G
Starring
Peter Sallis,
Ralph Fiennes,
Helena Bonham Carter,
Peter Kay,
Nicholas Smith,
Liz Smith,
John Thomson,
and
Mark Gatiss
The cheese-loving Wallace and his ever faithful dog Gromit, the much-loved duo from Aardman's Oscar-winning clay-animated shorts star in an all new comedy adventure, marking their first full-length feature film. (DreamWorks)
| GENRE(S): |
Adventure
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Animation
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Comedy
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Family/Kids
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Bob Baker
Steve Box
Mark Burton
Nick Park
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Steve Box
Nick Park
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: February 7, 2006
Video: February 7, 2006
Theatrical: October 5, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
85 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
UK |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Bestows generous blessings on all that's good in Englishness, in moviedom, and, of course, in cheese.

100
Premiere
Glenn Kenny
This is more than just the best animated comedy of the year--it's the best comedy of the year, period.

100
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
The giddiest and funniest animated film of the year.

100
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Park's imagination is as fecund as the bunnies that bob up and down from their rabbit holes in every corner of the Tottington garden.

100
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
It has the feel of something slaved over lovingly in merry isolation, and it is virtually the only thing I've seen this year that conveys in the viewing the obvious enjoyment its makers had in whipping it up.

100
Slate
David Edelstein
An absolutely magical fusion of deadpan Ealing comedy and Gothic horror.

100
Empire
Chris Hewitt
The comedy is never indulged at the expense of the plot, which flies off in genuinely unexpected directions, culminating in a boundlessly inventive funfair chase sequence.

100
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
What Park has done is resurrect not just the spirit but, as it were, the bodily science of early comedy. Like Chuck Jones, and, further back, like Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, Park is unafraid of the formulaic--—of bops on the head, of the unattainable beloved, of gadgetry gone awry--because he sees what beauty there can be in minor, elaborate variations on a basic theme.

91
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
So devoid of the usual coarse Hollywood calculation that it plays like a breath of fresh air.

90
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
Maybe if PETA tried being funny instead of comparing eating meat to the Holocaust, they’d have a bigger following.

90
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Gromit's every facial move -- every grimace, scowl, eye-roll and glance askance -- is sublime.
90
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
So much modern animation is technically brilliant and yet comes off as cold and indifferent. But Wallace, Gromit, and the people and creatures in their world always look warm to the touch. Someone made, and moved, all those bunnies by hand. It's impossible NOT to believe in them.

90
Time
Richard Corliss
The whole rollicking adventure zips along a mile a minute.

90
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
The animation is a marvel - all the more so because the most demanding sequences seem almost casually tossed off. The world of Wallace and Gromit is one of the few genuinely eccentric places left in the movies, a place where lumpy, doughy characters achieve a peculiar dignity in spite of their grotesque features and the ridiculousness of their circumstances.

90
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Most of all, Wallace & Gromit retains the clever, one-of-a-kind sensibility that made its shorter predecessors so delightful. With every studio comedy looking for a formula for success, it's refreshing to find a heroically whimsical film that succeeds by following no formula known to dog or man.

89
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It's a ripping good yarn, to boot, breathlessly paced and seamlessly edited, but most important, resoundingly and surpassingly fun.

88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Wallace and Gromit are arguably the two most delightful characters in the history of animation.

88
USA Today
Claudia Puig
This adorable exercise in whimsy should give "Corpse Bride" a good fight for best-animated-film Oscar.

88
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
If animated dogs were eligible for acting awards, the Oscar would go to Gromit.

88
Miami Herald
Peter Debruge
The magic of the movies is never more evident than with stop-motion animation, and nobody does it better than Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park.

88
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
The feeling is like a warm homecoming.

88
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Even more than "Chicken Run," Were-Rabbit is a tiny plasticine masterpiece.

80
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
The Warners-style slapstick and gentle Anglophilia charms children and adults alike, but what kills me are the fingerprint ridges that fade in and out of the characters' mugging faces, a reassuring reminder that handmade art can still captivate.

80
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
The illusion is seamless and the pleasure is boundless.
80
Variety
Leslie Felperin
Park and co-helmer Steve Box stay faithful to the cozy core ingredients that made the clay duo's kudo-reaping shorts and Park's previous pic, "Chicken Run," so well loved. "Curse" delivers a wholesome morsel, happily not too cheesy, that families will nibble on as a treat.

80
Village Voice
Ed Park
This latest and biggest installment is a whimsical success of a very high order: The pace never lags, the invention is incessant, and it makes you want to have a bite of cheese afterward.

80
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
The movie rolls merrily along with slapstick action and whimsical characters.

80
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Tasha Robinson
The humor edges against absurdism, but stays self-aware and witty, with that mild-mannered optimism presiding.

80
Dallas Observer
Melissa Levine
The result is an experience rich in pleasure and surprise, one that easily stands up to multiple viewings.

80
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Who could resist a movie in which a garden gnome holds the front line in high-tech home security?

75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
One of the better offerings to be found in a year that has seen a drop-off in the quality of animated films.

75
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
You will laugh yourself silly.

75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
For 40 minutes or so it's really good, in fact, as lovely and daft as the stop-motion animated W&G shorts that preceded it.

75
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
A gentle comic stew of monster movies, adding dashes of Bugs Bunny irreverence and British gentility.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
The delightful G-rated film has a story line simple enough for pre-schoolers to follow and comic sensibility complex enough for adults to savor, with an emphasis on howlingly bad (by which I mean good) puns.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
Very imaginative and can be enjoyed by audiences of all ages.

70
New York Magazine
Ken Tucker
A pungent delight.

63
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Eminently worth seeing, even if it leaves you wishing it were as consistently inventive as Aardman's first feature, "Chicken Run" (2000).


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