Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !!!

The Movie...
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Directed By...
Nick Park / Steve Box

Starring (Voice Talents)...
Peter Sallis (Wallace)
Helena Bonham Carter (Lady Tottingham)
Ralph Fiennes (Victor Quartermaine)

The Story...
The cheese-loving Wallace and his ever faithful dog Gromit - the much-loved duo from Aardman's Oscar-winning clay-animated "Wallace and Gromit" shorts - star in an all new comedy adventure, marking their first full-length feature film.

It's 'vege-mania' in Wallace and Gromit's neighbourhood, and our two enterprising chums are chasing in with their humane pest-control outfit, "Anti-Pesto." With only days to go before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition, business is booming, but Wallace & Gromit are finding out that running a "humane" pest control outfit has its drawbacks as their west Wallaby Street home fills to the brim with captive rabbits.

Suddenly, a huge, mysterious, veg-ravaging "beast" begins attacking the town's sacred vegetable plots at night, and the competition hostess, Lady Tottington, commissions Anti-Pesto to catch it and save the day. Lying in wait, however, is Lady Tottington's snobby suitor, Victor Quartermaine, who's rather shoot the beast and secure the position of local hero - not to mention Lady Tottington's hand in marriage. With the fate of the competition in the balance, Lady Tottington is eventually forced to allow Victor to hunt down the vegetable chomping marauder. Little does she know that Victor's real intent could have dire consequences for her...and our two heroes.

Official Website: http://www.WandG.com

Some Facts You May Not Know About W&G...

• 1989: The original W&G titled "A Grand Day Out", in the form of clay-animated short film comedy, was created by Nick Park. It was Park's graduate project when he was a student at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, England. It was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Animated Short in 1990.
• 1994: Park's 2nd W&G film, "The Wrong Trousers", won the Academy Award® for Best Animated Short.
• 1996: Park's 3rd W&G short "A Close Shave" earned him yet another Oscar®.
• "The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" is W&G's first full-length feature film, and primarily a 3D animation made up of a combination of computer animation and clay animation.
• It took 5 years of solid work to complete this 85-minute feature.
• All characters are molded from a special blend of Plasticine, which is slightly more durable than ordinary Plasticine. However, constant resculpting had to be done.
• The characters' hair and clothing are molded and hand painted on each individual puppet.
• You can see the fingerprints. It tells you they are real.They are tangible.
• Every character had to be duplicated in different poses and in various costumes. E.g. Wallace had 35 versions; Lady Tottington & Victor had over a dozen versions.
• In addition, there had to be an assortment of interchangeable and replaceable parts for each puppet, ranging from eyes and ears to heads and hands to mouths.
• A team of 30 animators spent over 2 years to make the puppets "perform", by moving the puppets themselves and capturing into frames.
• Gromit (the dog) had no mouth. His expressions had to be depended on brows, eyes and body.

$ Worth Spending $...
S$9.50 (Definitely worth the weekend price!)

In Singapore Cinemas...
29 December 2005