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...latest work to sprout from Park’s fertile mind is “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,” the first full-length feature starring the titular team. Their initial appearances in a series of celebrated short films in the ’90s have amassed a fan base that adores their wry, unmistakably British humor. The formula is straightforward but enchanting. Wallace is the bald, big-grinned inventor with a different job in every film but two constant passions: wacky, necessarily unnecessary contraptions and a good hunk of cheese. Gromit...
...movie’s design. The results are almost always devilishly clever. The walls of Wallace’s house are covered with portraits of their customers, whose eyes light up when their alarms are tripped by scavenging vermin (you can guess what happens when, one night, the Were-Rabbit tramples through every garden in town). Every item in Lady Tottington’s wardrobe intricately recreates a different piece of greenery. CGI, to the limited extent that it’s utilized, blends seamlessly with the handcrafted care of the figures, as in a particularly endearing scene where rabbits...
...little too timid for its own good. After raising the stakes with their last outing, “A Close Shave,” wherein the lives of the protagonists seem to be in genuine peril, the two reside in safer territory in “Were-Rabbit.” This time, anything that’s in mortal danger can generally be found at a salad...
Similarly frustrating is the resolution of romantic tension in “Shave” vs. “Were-Rabbit.” In the former, the mutual attraction between Wallace and his lady-friend is bittersweetly cleft when she reveals her aversion to cheese, evoking the unresolved disquiet that eloquently capped the second season of BBC’s “The Office.” “Were-Rabbit” is more akin to the subsequent “Office Christmas Special,” with the romance subplot concluded in clich?...
Annette Bening looks like New, and was good in “The American President.” As for Larry, could he be animated? Could we get Shrek? It could be a cross between real life and animation, like “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” I think it’d be a romantic comedy of epic proportions...