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Hopping Hares, It’s Wallace & Gromit!

**** 1/2

From the Academy Award winners of Chicken Run comes Wallace & Gromit, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Wallace (Peter Sallis), an inventor whose mind is always working, and Gromit, his companion dog who never says anything (because he’s mouthless), are deep in their rabbit holes when they discover that a giant rabbit is going around and eating everyone’s vegetables. It’s their business because they run a business called Anti-Pesto, a company that catches annoying little pests like rabbits then keeps them in solitary confinement. (It’s not really solitary because they are multiplying like rabbits and cramming up their basement, which is where they store them.)

Wallace meets a lovely young lady named Lady Tottington (voiced by Helena Bonham Carter of Corpse Bride) who has a terrible rabbit problem. They go to her house and discover millions of tiny rabbits getting in their holes. Lady Tottington’s other suitor is a man named Lord Victor Quartermaine (Ralph Fiennes) who is after her money, and he wants to shoot the rabbits. Instead, they use their invention (I think it’s called a Suckomatic) and suck the rabbits out of their holes to put them inside a floating orb on the back of their truck. Unfortunately the Suckomatic goes out of control and sucks Lord Quartermaine’s hair into the truck and almost his whole head as well!

When they get home Wallace gets a brilliant idea to make the rabbits not like eating vegetables, thus saving the Annual Giant Vegetable Competition. To do this he invents a lunar powered brain manipulator to transfer his veggie-hating thoughts into the rabbit’s brains. Unfortunately, the invention goes very wrong and Wallace gets rabbitified! (The thoughts of a rabbit go into his brain.) Then they are also faced with a giant bunny, eating everyone’s vegetables and causing havoc.

Will the rabbit be stopped? Will Wallace go crazy? Will the annual competition be thwarted? Who will win Lady Tottington over, Wallace or Lord Quartermaine? See this hilarious film to find out. Rated G for a ‘Good’ time.