Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit [DVD]

Really cute and funny movie. I recommend.

My littles when they were 7 and 9 years couldn’t get enough of this show!

This movie is just awesome. Detail is incredible. I was honestly too distracted by how good the sets looked. The craftsmanship makes me go crazy, and I suspect they might've used some black magic

I loved this movie as a kid and it is amazing to have a physical copy now. Unfortunately sometimes services take it offline and I didn't want to try and pirate it. Thankfully I was able to find a DVD for myself!!

This movie never fails to make me smile and even laugh out loud! One of my son and my favorite "fun" movies. Just hilarious. Understated comedy, great voice talent, cute and quirky plot, and with Aardman's signature stop-motion-esque animation style. Very entertaining. Recommend!

If you enjoy British humor and need some light entertainment this movie with claymation is one to try.

My son is obsessed with Wallace and Gromit.

Wallace and Gromit's The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a good film for the whole family. In addition to having a basic, good-versus evil plot that will be easy for even the youngest members of the family to understand, it also contains enough layers that adults will enjoy it. This tone is set right from the opening credits, which show Wallace attempting to gulp down a large block of cheese while also containing subtle nods such as the fact that Gromit graduated from Dogwarts.For those unfamiliar with Wallace and Gromit, they are the main characters in a Plasticine universe designed by Nick Park. Up until now, Wallace (voiced by Peter Salis), a mild-mannered cheese-loving British inventor, and Gromit, his faithful and intelligent dog, have been the subject of shorter works, including two short films that garnered Oscars. Were-Rabbit builds on Park's success with Chicken Run to bring Wallance and Gromit to the big screen. This has allowed Park and his team at Aardman features to expand the small-screen universe to include a series of new characters, including Lady Tottington (voiced by Helena Bonham Carter), Wallace's love interest.In this go-around, Wallace and Gromit are running a pest-control service called Anti-Pesto that is defending the gardens of their hometown from rabbits ahead of an upcoming Giant Vegetable competition at Tottington Hall. However, as the competition nears the gardens of the town are being ravaged by the Ware-Rabbit, an enormous beast with a taste for vegetables and fruits, and Wallace and Gromit have are in a race both to stop the beast and to win the hand of Lady Tottington from the bloodthirsty Victor Quartermaine (voiced by Ralph Finnes).This is a fun, action-packed 85 minutes and you will be continually entertained by the new wrinkles and misdirection laid out by Park. The amazing thing about the way Park directs is that the most likeable and expressive character in this film is Gromit, who does not have a single line of dialogue. This film compares favorably to Chicken Run, and if you liked that 2000 send-up of The Great Escape, you will enjoy this parody of horror movies as well.The script is well written and moves the action along nicely while hitting on some deeper themes (class cleavages, the perils of technology). The dialogue is generally crisp (or, as Wallace would put it, cracking), and the gags run from erudite to lowbrow. That said, even the directors mention that you should not spend a lot of time pondering some of the plot devices, and this is sound advice. If you finish the film and are asking yourself about the process by which Wallace could have been restored, well, you are probably thinking too hard about a plasticine movie.Despite the fact that this film references some of the great and not-so-great horror movies of all time, there is nothing in it that is particularly scary and it is completely appropriate for small children. In this respect, it is even more well-crafted in terms of age-appropriateness than Chicken Run, which had a subtle chicken execution. There is nothing even remotely that dark in Were-Rabbit. Although there are a few double entendres in a film about melon-eating rabbits that may touch on racy, they are going to go right over younger viewers' heads and are nothing to be concerned about.The only concern parents may have are some extremely subtle (and likely unintentional) jabs at Christian clergy in the person of the Vicar. I suspect that this is one of those things that you only find if you go looking for it, but the Vicar is shown with some occult items, putting holy water on his show vegetables, and possessing a copy of nun wrestling magazine. That said, everyone in Wallace and Gromit's world is a bit off, and a vicar with a nun wrestling magazine is less out of place when his paritioners are treating vegitation as though it were their child. If you are devout and easily offended by such things, you should steer clear of this film.The special features on Were-Rabbit are average. There's a commentary with the two co-directors, but they seem more intent on watching the film themselves than providing significant insights. The Dreamworks for Kids features have some games that will occupy your children for a very, very short amount of time. There is a claymation short called `Stagefright' which is far darker than the film itself, and from my perspective not nearly as engaging. You also find out via one of the production featurettes that Wallace almost single-handedly saved Wensleydale cheese, and watching a plasticine rabbit get made is mildy diverting, but that's about it.This is a great film and I recommend it for almost everyone. In an era where computer graphics has taken over filmmaking, Wallace and Gromit and their Plasticine universe remain interesting and new, and even though a few CGI effects were added to this film you will be hard-pressed to spot them. This film earned a well-deserved Oscar for best full-length animated film and has more than enough things going on to entertain viewers of all ages, even through multiple viewings. While the features are not particularly exciting, this DVD is more than worth the investment both for long-time Wallace and Gromit fans and people just looking for some generally clean family entertainment.