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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
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Universal acclaim
Based on 38 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family/Kids
Written by:
Bob Baker
Steve Box
Mark Burton
Nick Park
Directed by:
Steve Box
Nick Park
Release Date:
Theatrical: October 5, 2005
DVD: February 7, 2006
Running Time: 85 minutes, Color
Origin: UK
Summary
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)
Also On Metacritic
FILM: Chicken Run
GAMES: Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit (PS2)
Also On The Web: Internet Movie Database View The Trailer Official Studio Site
What The Critics Said
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...
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Bestows generous blessings on all that's good in Englishness, in moviedom, and, of course, in cheese.
Read Full Review >Premiere Glenn Kenny
This is more than just the best animated comedy of the year--it's the best comedy of the year, period.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
The giddiest and funniest animated film of the year.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
An absolutely magical fusion of deadpan Ealing comedy and Gothic horror.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
So devoid of the usual coarse Hollywood calculation that it plays like a breath of fresh air.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Gromit's every facial move -- every grimace, scowl, eye-roll and glance askance -- is sublime.
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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
It's a ripping good yarn, to boot, breathlessly paced and seamlessly edited, but most important, resoundingly and surpassingly fun.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Wallace and Gromit are arguably the two most delightful characters in the history of animation.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
This adorable exercise in whimsy should give "Corpse Bride" a good fight for best-animated-film Oscar.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
If animated dogs were eligible for acting awards, the Oscar would go to Gromit.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
Even more than "Chicken Run," Were-Rabbit is a tiny plasticine masterpiece.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
The illusion is seamless and the pleasure is boundless.
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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
The movie rolls merrily along with slapstick action and whimsical characters.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson
The humor edges against absurdism, but stays self-aware and witty, with that mild-mannered optimism presiding.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Melissa Levine
The result is an experience rich in pleasure and surprise, one that easily stands up to multiple viewings.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Ella Taylor
Who could resist a movie in which a garden gnome holds the front line in high-tech home security?
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
A gentle comic stew of monster movies, adding dashes of Bugs Bunny irreverence and British gentility.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
Very imaginative and can be enjoyed by audiences of all ages.
Read Full Review >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).
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.2 (out of 10) based on 121 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Lise W. gave it a10:
I had the incredible privilege of visiting the set of this film while it was being shot. The magnificence of the finished article owes no small debt to the immaculate attention to detail and love furnished on every tiny detail of the production. Tottington Hall was fully furnished and finished - even the bits that we can't see and every item of fruit, cheese and other articles that appeared in the fairground exquisitely made. Nick Park lavished as much care on the props as Peter Jackson did in Lord of the Rings - only in miniature. Without a doubt a masterpiece and one of the greatest animations of all time.
Alex G. gave it an8:
A thoroughly enjoyable film from start to finish and although I'm not a big fan of the plasticine duo i did enjoy this film with plenty of laugh out loud moments.
Mauricio B. gave it a7:
A good movie, but a little boring, no good for kids. Keep the same structure of the series that make the movie a TVv commercial.
JTB gave it a10:
Simply Amazing.
Max K. gave it a10:
Its very obvious, with Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of The Were-Rabbit I think we've reached the best motion picture ever made. I know, highly silly for me to say, but, really, I think this is the best motion picture ever made. Reasons why: legend silly British humor, adorable visually brilliant and surreal English characters, goofy but pefect pun storyline, if you've seen all the orginial Wallace and Gromit short movies, they do like to pun old action movies, Were-Rabbit does the same, so this movie keeps the orginial Wallace and Gromit movies' heart. But, really, the real reason why this movies is claimed the best movie by me is because, it has a Gromit. Gromit is completely mute, but his body language and mainly his eybrows says all. Best movie since Lord of the Rings, view it, I know, I may sound silly, but youll be amazingly surprised.
Tom N gave it a4:
Mediocre animated film. No creativity, no magic, no orignality as like Spirited Away or fun entertainment as Finding Nemo. Everything was very predictable, jokes were simple and old, nothing really special about the movie.
Jacob R. gave it a7:
This movie is highly over rated, but it is a good a enough, small enough movie that I will probally wont remeber in the next two years.
