Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (2005)

Story, the creative Wallace, inventor extraordinaire and Gromit, the brains of most and everything, now in charge of the Anti Pesto rabbit defence against the village prized vegetables of the up-coming vegetable competition. But now as the full moon approaches they will have up the defences the Were-Rabbit draws near.

 Now take the style of Steve Box and Nick Park with a classic horror style of a were-wolf you get Wallace & Gromit's next adventure with lots of slapstick humour, a purely brilliant with old fashioned British tongue and the stop motion from the clay animation is some of the best you can get which truly shows you do not need to rely on pure CGI to create such a wonderful tale. The action sequences shows some of the most creative sides to animation you will ever see, some I believe to reference old shows of Wallace and Gromits adventures, especially a sequence involving the fight between Gromit and Victors hound on the plane which really reminds me of an original scene with a train which I have seen countless times in animation museums to show of the style of stop motion camera.

As I mentioned before the slapstick style is actually done really well, I have never really beed fond of such humour but the film left me laughter which I never thought it would. Been that I have seen this before I never seemed interested in watching this film at first, I believe this has something to with style of the story referring to films of were-wolfs we have always seen before. This in some ways I believe that this  let the film down and does not live up to the classic Chicken Run tale which were also created Steve Box and Nick Park. Chicken Run was completely new and interesting idea to personify such creatures, with exciting personalities that we could all love with the added evil villain that perhaps a child and adult could relate to that we all probably get throughout our life. In conselation though we do get a mass of amount of human side characters, this does make up for it in some ways as they are mostly the core of which the slapstick does originate from and they give of some of the more creative lines of the film.

The voice acting is as creative as the film, you would not expect Helen Bonham Carter to play a role for such a film but does great for what she is given and really does brilliant job shaping her characters personality from start to finish. Overall this film may exceed its Chicken Run preprocessor but keeps true to style and creative of the original Wallace and Gromit which will keep entertained throughout.