Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit(2005)
DreamWorks Oct 5, 2005
Wallace and his loyal dog, Gromit, set out to discover the mystery behind the garden sabotage that plagues their village and threatens the annual giant vegetable growing contest.
Release Details
- Oct 5, 2005 | Wide
- Oct 5, 2005 | Limited
- Oct 7, 2005 | Wide
- Oct 14, 2005 | Wide
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Sound Mix: DTS,Dolby Digital,SDDS
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
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Country of Origin: United Kingdom, United States
Language: English
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Plot Summary
- Tottington Hall's "517th annual" Giant Vegetable Competition is approaching. Lady Campanula "Totty" Tottington, a wealthy local 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. The winner of the competition will win the Golden Carrot Award.All the villagers are eager to protect their vegetables from damage and thievery by rabbits until the contest. In West Wallaby Street, Wigan lives Wallace (Peter Sallis) an eccentric, absent-minded and accident-prone yet good-nature inventor with a great fondness for cheese. Wallace loves to make homemade robots, gadgets and Rube-Goldberg machines and he lives with his best friend, assistant inventor and pet, a loyal, brave and intelligent beagle dog named Gromit. Lady Tottington asks Wallace to call her "Totty" and develops a romantic interest in him. Wallace and Gromit are cashing in by running a vegetable security and humane pest control business, "Anti-Pesto".However, they are soon faced with two problems. The first is Wallace's growing weight because of his love of cheese and the second is inadequate space for the captured rabbits.One evening, after capturing all the rabbits found in the garden of Lady Tottington using his "Bun-Vac 6000", Wallace uses his latest invention, the "Mind Manipulation-O-Matic", to brainwash them all into disliking vegetables, allowing them to run freely without harming everyone's gardens. As they brainwash the rabbits, Wallace accidentally changes the setting of the Bun-Vac, and his brain is fused with a rabbit, forcing Gromit to destroy the machine. 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 monstrous rabbit devours many people's vegetables, and the duo fails to respond. Soon the town is threatened by the "Were-Rabbit", a giant rabbit-like monster which eats vegetables of any size. During a chaotic town meeting, Anti-Pesto enters into a rivalry with Tottington's local fiancé Lord Victor Quartermaine (Ralph Fiennes), who seeks to court Lady Tottington (Helena Bonham Carter) for her fortune, and who believes that it is better to rid of the pests via the use of guns than Anti-Pesto's humane business. Wallace has developed a crush on Tottington, and she appreciates Anti-Pesto's humane methods as opposed to Victor's animal cruelty skills.Victor wants to capture the Were-Rabbit and to win Lady Tottington's heart. After the first night of the Were-Rabbit, the townsfolk start to argue about what to do. Yet with lady Tottington's persuasion, the townspeople agree the Anti-Pesto front the capture attempt.After Anti-Pesto unsuccessfully tries to trap the Were-Rabbit using a makeshift female Were-Rabbit, they find that Hutch has mutated. After a hectic night-time chase and a series of clues, Wallace and Gromit come to the theory that Hutch is the Were-Rabbit. Wallace is overjoyed however, because this technically means he has already captured the beast and cheerfully goes to inform Lady Tottington. Gromit secures Hutch to make sure that he does not escape but is confused to find a continuing trail of Were-Rabbit footprints that follow up the stairs. Tracing the footprints, Gromit is unnerved to see the rabbit footprints gradually morph into human footprints, and that they lead into Wallace's bedroom.Upon further investigation, Gromit instead discovers that the Were-Rabbit is, in fact, Wallace, after discovering a pile of devoured vegetables in his bed, who is apparently suffering from the effects of the accident with the Mind Manipulation-O-Matic having caused him and Hutch to each take on aspects of the other.Hutch has gained Wallace's entire personality, such as his liking for cheese, displays Wallace's knack for inventions and regularly repeats some of Wallace's old phrases. Gromit follows Wallace, retrieves him before the sun sets, and when driving home, Victor corners Wallace during the night, jealous of Lady Tottington's growing fondness for him because of his humane practice of pest control.But then Wallace falls into the path of moonlight and transforms into the Were-Rabbit, before a petrified Victor, Victor's dog Phillip and Gromit, who immediately speeds away after Wallace in the Anti-Pesto van after he leaps and bounds away in search of vegetables. Victor, having identified the Were-Rabbit, gets the idea to dispose of his rival to win Tottington's heart, and goes to Reverend Clement Hedges (Nicholas Smith) to gain access to "24-carrot" gold bullets which are supposedly, the only things capable of killing a Were-Rabbit for good.The following morning, the day finally arrives for the Vegetable Competition. Gromit reveals to Wallace that the experiment has swapped his and Hutch's personalities; the latter now carries his human traits and is the only one who can fix the Mind-O-Matic. Lady Tottington reluctantly bows to public pressure to sanction Victor's offer to shoot the Were-Rabbit. When she goes to Wallace to inform him, he begins to transform and is left with no choice but to send her to away to prevent her from learning the truth. Victor soon bursts through the door of the house, armed with three golden bullets, but Gromit is one step ahead of him, using a rabbit costume he and Wallace had created as a trap, prior to the discovery of the Were-Rabbit's true identity.However, Gromit's getaway plan is foiled when Victor mistakenly fires upon what he believes to be the Were-Rabbit, instead discovering it to be Gromit in disguise. Realizing that Wallace is marching towards the competition, Victor and his dog Philip imprison Gromit in an Anti-Pesto cage. Gromit subsequently escapes with help from Hutch and decides to make a sacrifice by using the marrow he had been growing for the competition as bait for Wallace who, in his rabbit form, has burst upon the vegetable contest, causing panic among the townspeople.Unfortunately, the marrow cannot keep Wallace's attention as Victor tries to take the golden carrot award from a distressed Lady Tottington, as it is the only golden bullet-like object left to him after he exhausted the gold bullets provided by the vicar. Wallace ascends to the rooftops, holding a screaming Lady Tottington in his hand. Discovering his identity after recognizing his palm-shaking gesture, she promises to protect him, only to be interrupted by Victor, whose head is now adorned with candy floss as a toupee after being plunged head-first into candy floss machine by the Were-Rabbit.Meanwhile, in a mid-air dogfight in toy biplanes, Philip pursues Gromit, in order to prevent him from stopping Victor. Gromit dispatches his foe out of the air in a fiery crash and explosion, but Philip manages to hold on to Gromit's plane and the two grapple with each other. The fight rages on and in the end, Gromit releases Philip through the bomb doors and lands open jaw-first into an inflatable Tottington hall bouncy castle.On the roof of Tottington Hall, Gromit's toy biplane circles Wallace, who clings onto the flagpole at the top of the building, unable to move because of the angry mob forming beneath. Victor, this time wielding the Golden Carrot trophy inside a blunderbuss he found at an antiques table at the fair, tries one last time to shoot Wallace, but Wallace is saved by Gromit, who grabs onto a rope from a flagpole and swings his plane into the path of the improvised bullet.The plane is hit and begins to descend rapidly. Wallace jumps from the flagpole and catches the plane, thereby breaking Gromit's fall into the cheese tent below, yet mortally wounding Wallace. Victor gloats, but is knocked unconscious by Lady Tottington, using a giant carrot. He falls into the tent too, where Wallace lies unconscious and seemingly dying of his injuries. To protect Wallace from the angry mob outside, Gromit dresses Victor as the monster (using the marionette he used earlier as a lure for the Were-Rabbit), and throws him out of the tent. Philip, believing Victor to be the beast, bites his master, and the angry mob chases Victor away.Gromit and Tottington tend to Wallace who, seconds later, seemingly passes away and morphs back into his human form. Gromit, the rabbits, and Lady Tottington are saddened by their loss, but Gromit is able to revive Wallace with a slice of Stinking Bishop cheese. Gromit, for his bravery and his "brave and splendid marrow", is awarded the slightly damaged Golden Carrot trophy, and Lady Tottington turns Tottington Hall's front garden into a wildlife refuge, where Hutch and the rest of the rabbits can live in peace.
Storyline
- It's 'vege-mania' in Wallace and Gromit's neighborhood, and our two enterprising chums are cashing 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'd rather shoot the beast and secure the position of local hero-not to mention Lady Tottingon'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. — DreamWorks SKG Ingenious, cheese-loving inventor Wallace, and Gromit, his loyal sidekick, are the proud co-founders of Anti-Pesto, a humane pest control agency. Indeed, those two stand between the townspeople's succulent vegetables and the hungry swarms of wicked bunnies roaming the land. However, with Lady Tottington's annual Giant Vegetable Competition just around the corner, vague rumours of a nightmarish creature raiding vegetable patches throughout the countryside chill the bone to the marrow. Now, the intrepid duo must put their expertise to good use to save the day. Can they catch the beast before trigger-happy Victor Quartermaine and his vicious bulldog, Philip? Will Gromit and Wallace stop the monster and lift the curse of the were-rabbit? — Nick Riganas In a small English town, cheese fanatic inventor Wallace and his faithful dog companion Gromit work day and night protecting the townsfolk and their prized vegetable gardens in light of a giant vegetable pageant coming up. But when the vegetables are being sabotaged by a mysterious rabbit monster, Wallace and Gromit are called into action to investigate. In addition, Wallace finds himself being attracted by a wealthy heiress and at odds with an unscrupulous hunter to win the latter's heart. Will Wallace and Gromit catch the monster? Will the vegetable pageant be saved? — Blazer346 Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal, Gromit, investigate a mystery in Nick Park's animated adventure, in which the lovable inventor and his intrepid pup run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods that turn their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest. — ajintvarghese1 1 more See all
