Wallace & Grommit and the Curse of the wererabbit

[Colleen Thomas]

I was laughing all the way through it, was laughing as we left the theatre, was laughing all the way home, still laughing. It's classic Wallace & Grommit, good clean fun. If you have kids, it's a definte must see.

If you remember Wallace & Grommit from your childhood, it will take you back. It did me

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Chicken Run is one of my all time favorites and I loved the old W&Gs so I can't wait to see it.

 

[Huckleman2000]

I second this review - very, very clever. Also, the animated short about penguins that precedes the movie is really funny too.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Chicken Run is one of my all time favorites and I loved the old W&Gs so I can't wait to see it.

It's awesome

 

[cloudy]

The previews are funny as hell. I've gotta get it on DVD once it comes out (since my chances of actually seeing it at the theater are next to nothing).

 

[Colleen Thomas]

The previews are funny as hell. I've gotta get it on DVD once it comes out (since my chances of actually seeing it at the theater are next to nothing).

You gotta take the little spiderman Cloudy

 

[Penelope Street]

Grommit is my kind of hero.

 

[Guest]

Hello, Colly you lovely bit of sweetness. I love Wallace but most of all Gromit. Will see the film soon I hope. This is a bit from a NY Times review. You and others know I revere Garbo and I agree utterly with the comparison below.

Hope you're as well as well. P.

p.s. Don't know if I'm back or not, someone made me feel missed so I decided to have some fun posting to Svenska on the Colin Firth thread, then Charley got me going.

I hope you will forgive me for saying so - and I hope the filmmakers will forgive me, too - but "Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" has forced me to ponder the deepest mysteries of cinema. Why, for instance, do certain faces haunt and move us as they do?

I am thinking of Gromit, the mute and loyal animated dog whose selflessness and intelligence can be counted on, when things get really crazy, to save the day. Gromit has no mouth, and yet his face is one of the most expressive ever committed to the screen. In particular, his brow - a protuberance overhanging his spherical, googly eyes - is an almost unmatched register of emotion. Resignation, worry, tenderness and disgust all come alive in that plasticine nub. To keep matters within the DreamWorks menagerie, you might compare Gromit to Shrek, who has the genetic advantages of Mike Myers's Scots burr, a bevy of celebrity-voiced sidekicks and rivals, and state-of-the-art computer-animation technology. Good for him. But Gromit, made by hand and animated by a painstaking stop-motion process, has something Shrek will never acquire in a hundred sequels: a soul.

And this unassuming pooch's feature film debut, after appearances in three sublime half-hour shorts, is thus a solemn occasion (even if the movie itself is utterly silly). His face now enters the pantheon of stars whose charisma transcends speech. Keaton, Chaplin, Garbo - let them now make room for Gromit. ... (A.O. Scott)

 

[Belegon]

ohhh...a 'Dita sighting!

I agree about Grommitt's expressiveness. The shorts have been standards in my home for a long time and we will definitely be taking the kids to the movies with us to see this feature length treat.

 

[English Lady]

Wallace and Grommit are wonderful, and the were rabbit is a great film, I especially enjoyed Peter Kay's performance as the policeman, the joke about it being arson had me in stitches *Laughs*

It's not many films that make me chuckly and giggle out loud and this one did it over and over again.

I heartily recomend it!

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Grommit is my kind of hero.

Definetly. Cerebral heros are the best, although I do admit, when Phillip was facing him down I almost wished, just for once Grommit would have bowed up and clocked him

Of course then I would have missed the real "dogfight" so it was perfect

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Hello, Colly you lovely bit of sweetness. I love Wallace but most of all Gromit. Will see the film soon I hope. This is a bit from a NY Times review. You and others know I revere Garbo and I agree utterly with the comparison below.

Hope you're as well as well. P.

p.s. Don't know if I'm back or not, someone made me feel missed so I decided to have some fun posting to Svenska on the Colin Firth thread, then Charley got me going.

DITA!!!!!!

Can't be any better indication of Grommit's Soul than a thread about his movie draws a Dita response

*HUGS*

I agree totally with the article. One other thing I love about them is they can be side splittingly funny without resorting to the lowest common denomonator. When my roomie asked if I wanted to tag along with her and some freinds, I didn't even have to take a xanax either, I was almost like a kid again, just purely and throughly thrilled to be going and laughing without concern as I watched

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Wallace and Grommit are wonderful, and the were rabbit is a great film, I especially enjoyed Peter Kay's performance as the policeman, the joke about it being arson had me in stitches *Laughs*

It's not many films that make me chuckly and giggle out loud and this one did it over and over again.

I heartily recomend it!

I loved the dog fight myself

When I saw Grommit in the little blue plane with RAF markings, I just knew Phillip would show up in a red fokker

 

[Guest]

 

[Stella_Omega]

All the previous movies have been made on shoestring budgets, and this one had big money behind it. It's absolutely WONDERFUL to see the money going to the right task- making it funnier!
I laughed till I was out of breath!

 

[neonlyte]

Hell this a funny film, cheered me up no end Laughed all the way home.
Huge number of sexual references that went over most of the young audiences heads, Lady Totty ' This is my Secret Garden' hee, hee, this just before she shows Wallace her Cantaloupes.

And the book titles in Wallaces house 'Fromage to Eternity' nearly caused an accident

What ever you do - see this film.

 

[matriarch]

I wasn't going to read this, I just knew you guys who've seen it would give some of the plot away.

Dammit, now I have to see it......just a matter of trying to fit it in to what has become a very tight schedule of late.

 

[cward2]

Funny film. The gf and me loved it.

 

[Just-Legal]

I loved this film, I've seen it several times with different bunches of friends/family. I've never *heard* my father laugh so long or so hard!

One of the most amusing bits, however, was when the Madagascar Penguins short started, and little voice behind me went "Mummy! They're showing the wrong film!"

 

[Colleen Thomas]

I loved this film, I've seen it several times with different bunches of friends/family. I've never *heard* my father laugh so long or so hard!

One of the most amusing bits, however, was when the Madagascar Penguins short started, and little voice behind me went "Mummy! They're showing the wrong film!"

Having not seen madagascar, I found the short to be abslutely the perfect intro

 

[hurricane64]

I must confess, I go to few theatrical releases these days, and didn't even know who Wallace and Gromit were until I saw them in Best Buy the other day.

But...if it's a clever animated feature, then I know I'll like it.

 

[Penelope Street]

... when Phillip was facing him down I almost wished, just for once Grommit would have bowed up and clocked him

*sigh* Me too.

But...if it's a clever animated feature, then I know I'll like it.

IMO, it's beyond merely clever.