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There's oodles of action in Nick Park and Steve Box's Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, about the attempts of a daffy English inventor and his stoic, smarter dog to rid their home village of a vegetable-ravaging monster. Wallace, the man, scoops up rabbits by the hundreds in his mighty Bun-Vac 6000 ("It blows and sucks"). Gromit, the pooch, gets involved in some World War I--style aerial combat with another canine--a real dogfight. At film's end, the heroine, Lady Tottington, and the dread Were-Rabbit have a housetop confrontation worthy...
...movie projector at 24 frames a second), and each tableau, which may contain dozens of Plasticine characters, must be posed and shot before the next one is begun. The animator's job is to get the humor and humanity in each shot. "Sometimes it's just the way Gromit moves his head," says Park. "There's a million ways he can look up, and [you're in trouble] if it's not just right and doesn't capture what you're after." The 85-min. Were-Rabbit has 122,400 shots, which explains why this mini-masterpiece took five years...
...final work justifies every meticulous, monastic, masochistic effort. For longtime Gromit groupies and Wallace-y wonks, who know the pair from their early films A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave (the last two won Oscars for Best Animated Short), the new film proves that this endearingly odd couple can carry a feature-length film with easy poise. Newcomers will be charmed by the characters, then drawn into the suspense as a man is transformed into a killer bunny in a scene scarier--and even funnier--than Oliver Reed's hirsute metamorphoses in the old Hammer...
Three of the films are art-house ornaments, but two have blockbuster eyes. He is the voice of a gun-crazy aristocrat in the animated comedy Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, due out in October. A month later, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, he will be the villainous Voldemort--"a full-on, red-blooded baddie," he says, happy to describe one of his roles without tiptoeing around the words aloof and tortured...
Animation Aardman Animations www.aardman.com The official site of the studio that created Wallace, the hapless yet well-meaning, cheese-loving inventor, and Gromit, his faithful canine companion, is a treasure trove of video clips (click on Show Reel) and links to character sites including www.wandg.com, where you can get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Wallace & Gromit's first feature-length movie, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, due in theaters in October...