Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

For the video game, see Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (video game).

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
British theatrical release poster
Directed by	Nick Park Steve Box
Screenplay by	Steve Box Nick Park Mark Burton Bob Baker
Based on	Wallace and Gromit by Nick Park
Produced by	Claire Jennings Carla Shelley Peter Lord David Sproxton Nick Park
Starring	Peter Sallis Ralph Fiennes Helena Bonham Carter
Cinematography	David Alex Riddett Tristan Oliver
Edited by	David McCormick Gregory Perler
Music by	Julian Nott
Production companies	Aardman Animations [1] [2] DreamWorks Animation [1]
Distributed by	DreamWorks Pictures [2] (United States) United International Pictures (United Kingdom) [3]
Release dates	4 September 2005 (2005-09-04)(Sydney) [4] 7 October 2005 (2005-10-07)(United States) 14 October 2005 (2005-10-14)(United Kingdom)
Running time	85 minutes [3]
Countries	United Kingdom [5] United States [5]
Language	English
Budget	$30 million
Box office	$192.6 million

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a 2005 stop-motion animated comedy film directed by Nick Park and Steve Box. It was produced, made and owned by DreamWorks Animation in collaboration with Aardman Animations. It was the second feature-length film by Aardman, after Chicken Run (2000) and the last DreamWorks Animation film distributed by its parent DreamWorks Pictures, as the studio spun off as an independent studio in 2004 until its acquisition by NBCUniversal in 2016. ^{[note 1]} The film debuted in Sydney, Australia on 4 September 2005, before being released in theaters in the United States on 7 October 2005 and in the United Kingdom a week later on 14 October 2005.

The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a parody of classic monster movies and Hammer Horror films and also serves as part of the Wallace and Gromit series, created by Park. The film centres on good-natured yet eccentric cheese-loving inventor Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis) and his intelligent quiet dog, Gromit, in their latest venture as pest control agents. They come to the rescue of their town plagued by rabbits before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition. However, the duo soon find themselves against a giant rabbit consuming the town's crops.

The film features an expanded cast of characters relative to the previous Wallace and Gromit shorts, with a voice cast including Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes. While the film was considered a box-office disappointment in the US by DreamWorks Animation, ^[8] it was more commercially successful internationally. It also received critical acclaim and won a number of film awards, including the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, making it the second and latest film from DreamWorks Animation to win that award (following Shrek ), as well as the first stop-motion film to win. In January 2022, a new feature film was announced, which is due to release in 2024 on Netflix worldwide, except for the UK, where it will premiere first on the BBC before also coming to Netflix at a later date. ^{[9] [10]}

Plot

As Tottington Hall's annual giant vegetable competition approaches, cheese-loving inventor Wallace and his beagle Gromit provide a humane pest control business known as "Anti-Pesto", protecting people's vegetables from rabbits. One evening, after capturing rabbits found in the garden of Lady Tottington, Wallace uses two of his latest inventions, the "Bun-Vac 6000" and "Mind Manipulation-O-Matic", to brainwash them into disliking vegetables. All goes well until Wallace accidentally sets the Bun-Vac to "BLOW", and his brain is fused with that of a rabbit, forcing Gromit to destroy the Mind-O-Matic. The transfer appears to have worked, as the rabbit shows no interest in vegetables. They name the rabbit Hutch and place him in a cage.

That night, a giant rabbit devours many people's vegetables and the duo fail to respond. During a town meeting the next day, the creature is revealed to be the Were-Rabbit. Hunter Victor Quartermaine offers to shoot the creature, but Tottington persuades the townsfolk to give Wallace and Gromit a second chance. After Anti-Pesto unsuccessfully tries to trap the rabbit, Wallace suspects that Hutch is the beast and has Gromit lock him in a high-security cage. Gromit then follows a trail of footprints into Wallace's bedroom and finds a pile of half-eaten vegetables inside, indicating that Wallace is the real culprit.

After celebrating his success with Tottington, Wallace is cornered in the forest by Victor, who vies for Tottington's affections and fortune. Wallace transforms into the Were-Rabbit under the full moon and flees. Now seeing the perfect chance to eliminate his rival, Victor obtains three "24-carrot" gold bullets from the town's vicar, Reverend Clement Hedges, to use against Wallace.

On the day of the vegetable competition, Gromit reveals to Wallace that the experiment has swapped his and Hutch's personalities; the latter is now carrying his human traits and is the only one who can fix the Mind-O-Matic. Tottington visits and informs Wallace of Victor's plan; as the moon- rises, Wallace begins to transform again and hastily forces Tottington to leave. Victor arrives and attempts to shoot Wallace with the golden bullets, but Gromit helps Wallace to escape. Once Victor is gone, Gromit and Hutch devise a plan to save Wallace.

At the competition, after using up all his gold bullets, Victor takes an elephant gun and the Golden Carrot trophy to use as ammunition. Wallace carries Tottington atop Tottington Hall and reveals his true identity to her. Meanwhile, Gromit subdues Victor's dog, Philip, in a dogfight using aeroplanes taken from a fairground attraction. Gromit then steers his plane into Victor's line of fire as he shoots at Wallace, causing the bullet to hit the plane instead. The damaged plane falls and Wallace jumps to grab Gromit, breaking his fall onto a table of Crackers in a cheese tent. Tottington then whacks Victor in the head with a giant carrot and dumps him before Gromit quickly disguises Victor as the female Were-Rabbit, causing the townspeople to chase him away.

Wallace morphs back to his human self and appears dead, but Gromit revives him with Stinking Bishop cheese, undoing the curse of the Were-Rabbit. Tottington awards Gromit the Golden Carrot for his valor, and converts the grounds of Tottington Hall into a nature reserve for Hutch and the other rabbits.

Voice cast

Main article: List of Wallace and Gromit characters

Helena Bonham Carter at the film's North American premiere at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival

• Peter Sallis as Wallace, an eccentric, absent-minded and accident-prone yet good-natured inventor with a great fondness for cheese, who works Anti-Pesto with his dog and best friend, Gromit.
  • Sallis also provides the voice of Hutch, a kidnapped rabbit who gradually develops several of Wallace's mannerisms — his dialogue consists Almost entirely of phrases and statements previously made by Wallace — after an attempted mind-alteration goes Wrong and who is at first suspected to be the Were-Rabbit. Sallis's voice was digitally accelerated to create that of Hutch's.
  • Gromit is Wallace's silent, brave and highly intelligent dog who cares deeply for his master, and saves him whenever something goes wrong.
• Ralph Fiennes as Lord Victor Quartermaine, a cruel upper class bounder and a prideful hunter who is courting Lady Tottington for her fortune. He wears a toupee and despises Wallace and Gromit.
  • Philip is Victor's vicious but cowardly and dimwitted hunting dog who resembles a Bull Terrier. He is too cowardly to face the Were-Rabbit so he instead targets Gromit.
• Helena Bonham Carter as Lady Campanula "Totty" Tottington, a wealthy aristocratic spinster with a keen interest in vegetable horticulture and 'fluffy' animals. For 517 years, the Tottington family has hosted an annual vegetable competition on their estate on the same night. Lady Tottington asks Wallace to call her "Totty" (which is a British term for attractive women) and develops a romantic interest in him. Her forename, Campanula, is the scientific name of a bellflower, and her surname is taken from the Lancashire village of Tottington.
• Peter Kay as Police Constable Albert Mackintosh, the local village policeman who judges the Giant Vegetable Contest, though he would prefer it if the "troublemaking" competition didn't happen.
• Nicholas Smith as Reverend Clement Hedges, the superstitious town vicar and the first resident to witness the Were-Rabbit.
• Dicken Ashworth and Liz Smith as Mr. and Mrs. Mulch, neighbours of Wallace and Gromit who raise prize-winning pumpkins.
• Edward Kelsey as Mr. Growbag, an elderly resident of Wallace and Gromit's neighbourhood and a founding member of the town's vegetable growers council.
• Mark Gatiss as Miss Blight, a resident of Wallace and Gromit's neighbourhood.
• Geraldine McEwan as Miss Thripp, an Anti-Pesto customer. McEwan reprises her role in A Matter of Loaf and Death .
• John Thomson as Mr. Windfall
• Vincent Ebrahim as Mr. Caliche
• Robert Horvath as Mr. Dibber
• Pete Atkin as Mr. Crock
• Noni Lewis as Mrs. Gridling
• Ben Whitehead as Mr. Leaching
  • Whitehead is the current voice of Wallace in the franchise following Peter Sallis's retirement and subsequent death.

Production

Director Nick Park at the premiere

In March 2000, it was officially announced that Wallace and Gromit were to star in their own feature film. ^[12] It would have been Aardman's next film after The Tortoise and the Hare, which was subsequently abandoned by the studio in July 2001, owing to script problems. ^{[13] [14]}

The directors, Nick Park and Steve Box, have often referred to the film as the world's "first vegetarian horror film". ^{[15] [16]} Peter Sallis (the voice of Wallace) is joined in the film by Ralph Fiennes (as Lord Victor Quartermaine), Helena Bonham Carter (as Lady Campanula Tottington), Peter Kay (as PC Mackintosh), Nicholas Smith (as Rev. Clement Hedges), and Liz Smith (as Mrs. Mulch). As established in the preceding short films, Gromit is a silent character, communicating purely via body language.^{[ citation needed ]}

The film was originally going to be called Wallace & Gromit: The Great Vegetable Plot, but the title was changed, as the market research disliked it. ^[17] The first reported release date for The Great Vegetable Plot was November 2004. ^[18] Production officially began in September 2003, and the film was then set for release on 30 September 2005. In July 2003, Entertainment Weekly referred to the film as Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.^{[ citation needed ]}

Park said that after separate test screenings with British and American audiences, including children, he adjusted the characters' speech for American audiences. ^[19] Park was often sent notes from DreamWorks, which stressed him. He recalled one note that Wallace's car should be trendier, which he disagreed with because he felt making things look old-fashioned made it look more ironic. ^[20]

The vehicle Wallace drives in the film is an Austin A35 van. In collaboration with Aardman in the spring of 2005, a road going replica of the model was created by brothers Mark and David Armé, founders of the International Austin A30/A35 Register, for promotional purposes. In a 500-man-hour customisation, an original 1964 van received a full body restoration, before being dented and distressed to perfectly replicate the model van used in the film. The official colour of the van is Preston Green, named in honour of Nick Park's hometown. The name was chosen by the art director and Mark Armé.^{[ citation needed ]}

Release

The film had its worldwide premiere on 4 September 2005, in Sydney, Australia. ^[4] It was theatrically released in the United States on 7 October 2005, and in United Kingdom and Hong Kong the following week. The film was accompanied by the short film The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper , starring the penguins from the Madagascar franchise.

Home media

In Region 2, the film was released not only on VHS but also in a two-disc special edition DVD that includes Cracking Contraptions , plus a number of other extras on 20 February 2006. In Region 1, the film was released on DVD in widescreen and full-screen versions and VHS on 7 February 2006. Walmart stores carried a special version with an additional DVD, "Gromit's Tail-Waggin' DVD" which included the test shorts made for this production, making of the Were-Rabbit creature, memorable moments of the film titled "Gromit's Favorite Scenes", a video showing the legacy of the "Wallace and Gromit" franchise, an instructional video on how to draw Gromit, as well as "Cracking Contraptions" shorts.

A companion game, also titled Curse of the Were-Rabbit , was released with the film. A novelization, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit: The Movie Novelization by Penny Worms ( ISBN   0-8431-1667-6), was also produced.

It was the last DreamWorks Animation film to be released on VHS. It was re-released on DVD on 13 May 2014 as part of a triple film set, along with fellow Aardman/DreamWorks films Chicken Run and Flushed Away . ^[21]

A Blu-ray edition of the film was released by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment in the United States on 4 June 2019. ^[22]

Reception

Box office

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit opened in 3,645 cinemas and had an opening weekend gross of $16 million, putting it at number one for that weekend. ^[23] During its second weekend it came in at number two, just $200,000 behind The Fog . ^[24] It remained number one at the North American box office for three weeks in a row. ^[25] The Curse of the Were-Rabbit grossed $192.6 million at the box office, of which $56.1 million was from the United States. ^[25] As of January 2023 ^[update] , it is the second-highest-grossing stop-motion animated film of all time behind Aardman's first feature film, Chicken Run .

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 95% based on 183 reviews and an average rating of 8.1/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a subtly touching and wonderfully eccentric adventure featuring Wallace and Gromit." ^[26] On Metacritic, the film received a weighted average score of 87 out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". ^[27] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale. ^[28]

In 2016, Empire magazine ranked it 51st on their list of the 100 best British films, with their entry stating, "The sparkling Curse Of The Were-Rabbit positively brims with ideas and energy, dazzling movie fans with sly references to everything from Hammer horrors and The Incredible Hulk to King Kong and Top Gun , and bounds along like a hound in a hurry. The plot pitches the famously taciturn Dogwarts' alumnus and his Wensleydale-chomping owner (Sallis) against the dastardly Victor Quartermaine (Fiennes), taking mutating bunnies, prize-winning marrows and the posh-as-biscuits Lady Tottington (Bonham Carter) along for the ride. In short, it's the most marvellously English animation there is." ^[29]

Accolades

Group	Award	Recipients	Result
78th Academy Awards [30]	Best Animated Feature Film	Nick Park Steve Box	Won
33rd Annie Awards [31] [32]	Best Animated Effects	Jason Wen	Won
	Best Animated Feature		Won
	Best Character Animation	Claire Billet	Won
	Best Character Design in an Animated Feature Production	Nick Park	Won
	Best Directing in an Animated Feature Production	Nick Park Steve Box	Won
	Best Music in an Animated Feature Production	Julian Nott	Won
	Best Production Design in an Animated Feature Production	Phil Lewis	Won
	Best Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production	Bob Persichetti	Won
	Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production	Peter Sallis as the voice of Wallace	Won
	Best Writing in an Animated Feature Production	Steve Box Nick Park Mark Burton Bob Baker	Won
	Best Character Animation	Jay Grace	Nominated
		Christopher Sadler	Nominated
	Best Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production	Michael Salter	Nominated
	Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production	Helena Bonham Carter as the voice of Lady Campanula Tottington	Nominated
		Ralph Fiennes as the voice of Victor Quartermaine	Nominated
		Nicholas Smith as the voice of Reverend Clement Hedges	Nominated
59th British Academy Film Awards [33]	Best British Film	Claire Jennings David Sproxton Nick Park Steve Box Mark Burton Bob Baker	Won
British Academy Children's Awards [34]	Feature Film	Nick Park Steve Box Peter Lord David Sproxton	Won
British Comedy Awards [35]	Best Comedy Film	Nick Park	Won
11th Critics' Choice Awards [36]	Best Animated Feature	Nick Park and Steve Box	Won
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association [37]	Best Animated Feature		Won
Empire Awards [38]	Best Director	Nick Park Steve Box	Won
	Best British Film		Nominated
	Best Comedy		Nominated
	Scene of the Year		Nominated
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards 2005 [39]	Best Animated Film		Won
50th Hugo Awards [40]	Best Dramatic Presentation – Long Form		Nominated
London Film Critics Circle Awards 2005 [41]	British Film of the Year		Nominated
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 2005 [42]	Best Animated Film		Won
53rd Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards [43]	Best Sound Editing in Feature Film – Animated		Won
Golden Tomato Awards 2005 [44]	Best Animated Film		Won
	Best Wide Release		Won
New York Film Critics Online Awards 2005 [42]	Best Animated Film		Won
2006 Kids' Choice Awards [45]	Favorite Animated Movie	Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit	Nominated
Online Film Critics Society Awards 2005 [46]	Best Animated Feature		Won
17th Producers Guild of America Awards [47]	Producer of the Year Award in Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures	Claire Jennings Nick Park	Won
10th Satellite Awards [48]	Outstanding Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media		Nominated
32nd Saturn Awards [49]	Best Animated Film		Nominated
Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2005 [50]	Best Animated Film	Nick Park and Steve Box	Won
Visual Effects Society Awards 2005 [51]	Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Motion Picture	Lloyd Price for "Gromit"	Won
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association [52]	Best Animated Film		Won

Soundtrack

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Film score by Julian Nott
Released	October 11, 2005
Genre	Film score
Length	48:11
Label	Varèse Sarabande
Producer	Mark Wherry
Julian Nott chronology
Gifted (2003) Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2005) Shoot the Messenger (2006)

The film's score was composed by Julian Nott, who also scored the previous entries in the franchise. The score was produced by Hans Zimmer, and additional music was provided by Rupert Gregson-Williams, James Dooley, Lorne Balfe and Alastair King. ^[53]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"A Grand Day Out"	Nott Dooley	1:54
2.	"Anti-Pesto to the Rescue"	Nott Gregson-Williams Dooley	3:18
3.	"Bless You, Anti-Pesto"	Nott Dooley	1:56
4.	"Lady Tottington and Victor"	Nott Gregson-Williams Dooley Balfe King	2:03
5.	"Fire Up the Bun-Vac"	Nott Gregson-Williams	1:47
6.	"Your Ladyship"	Nott Gregson-Williams Dooley Balfe	1:07
7.	"Brainwash and Go"	Nott Gregson-Williams	2:28
8.	"Harvest Offering"	Nott Gregson-Williams Balfe	2:30
9.	"Arson Around"	Nott Dooley King	2:23
10.	"A Big Trap"	Nott Gregson-Williams Balfe	3:27
11.	"The Morning After"	Nott Dooley	1:44
12.	"Transformation"	Nott Balfe	4:05
13.	"Ravaged in the Night"	Nott Gregson-Williams King	1:45
14.	"Fluffy Lover Boy"	Nott Gregson-Williams Dooley	4:36
15.	"Kiss My Artichoke"	Nott Gregson-Williams Dooley	4:31
16.	"Dogfight"	Nott Balfe	3:39
17.	"Every Dog Has His Day"	Nott Dooley	2:43
18.	"All Things Fluffy"	Nott Gregson-Williams	1:07
19.	"Wallace and Gromit"	Nott	1:08
Total length:			48:11

Sequel

After the box-office failure of Flushed Away resulted in a major write down for DreamWorks, it was reported on 3 October 2006 ^[54] and confirmed on 30 January 2007 ^[55] that DreamWorks had terminated their partnership with Aardman. In revealing the losses related to Flushed Away, DreamWorks also revealed they had taken a $29 million write down over Wallace & Gromit as well, the film had drastically underperformed expectations in the home DVD market, despite grossing $192 million against a budget of only $30 million at the box office. ^[56]

Following the split, Aardman retained complete ownership of the film, while DreamWorks Animation retained worldwide distribution rights in perpetuity, excluding some United Kingdom television rights and ancillary markets. ^[7] Soon after the end of the agreement, Aardman announced that they would proceed with another Wallace & Gromit project, later revealed to be a return to their earlier short films with A Matter of Loaf and Death for BBC One.

During production of the short, Park remarked publicly on difficulties with working with DreamWorks during the production of The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, such as the constant production notes and demands to alter the material to appeal more to American children. ^{[20] [57]} This discouraged him from producing another feature film for years, with Lord noting that Park preferred the "half hour format". ^[58] However, in January 2022, a new Wallace & Gromit film was announced, which is due to release in 2024 on Netflix worldwide, except for the UK, where it will first premiere on BBC before coming to Netflix at a later date. ^{[9] [10]}

Notes

1. In July 2014, the film's distribution rights were purchased by DreamWorks Animation from Paramount Pictures (owners of the pre-2005 DreamWorks Pictures catalog) ^[6] and transferred to 20th Century Fox before reverting to Universal Pictures in 2018. However, Aardman Animations still retains complete ownership of the film. ^[7]

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External links

• Official website
• The Curse of the Were-Rabbit at the Official Wallace & Gromit website
• Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit at IMDb
• Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit at Rotten Tomatoes
• Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit at British Comedy Guide
• Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit at AllMovie