Mr. Movie reviews: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Congratulations to the marketing staff that realized that Wallace and Gromit where big enough draws that Ralph Fiennes, and Helena Bonham Carter’s voices are not where the selling point is. BTW most expressive voice Ralph has used to date. According to the creators they stole pieces of earlier films and made tests with the voices. If so I hope Lady Campanula Tottington doing a scene from “Fight Club” is on the DVD.

A children’s movie that has not been spread with the same retarded butter most children films have been as of late. When will the studios learn, you don’t make movies for 7 years olds. You always make a movie that is entertaining to yourself, sometimes the content is appropriate for children. The ageless Wallace and Gromit continue their technophile platonic relationship in this their first feature length film.

Wallace a prototypical aspergers sufferer creates massive rube Goldberg devices to do things like dress himself in the morning, and act as security systems for the towns ultra competitive over-sized vegetable gardeners. The town is over-run with bunnies, and Wallace and Gromit’s humane bunny disposal unit has become the de facto first response vegetable guard. The bunnies have begun to pile up as one might imagine bunnies might. So in classic Wallace/Fred Flintstone/Gilligan’s Island fashion they use a bit of technology to deter the bunnies.

I’m not making the argument that this is an intelligent film, it’s just a good one. The spoofing of Were-wolf fims, and “King Kong,” are very apt. There is a bit of laughing at oneself realizing the current fiction is no more ridiculous that the one you saw last week. It is just more malleable.

The sexual tension between Wallace and Lady Tottington is palpable from the first. This is in opposition to Victor Quartermaine (Ralph Fiennes) repugnant courting of the lady. It all comes to a lovely safe platonic ending to the relief of Gromit, and several bunnies.