The curse of the wererabbit
Wallace and Gromit’s latest business venture – a human pest-control outfit called ‘Anti-Pesto’ – is booming, but with days to go before the Giant Vegetable Competition, the enterprising duo are finding it hard to manage all the captive rabbits taking over West Wallaby Street.
As if that wasn’t enough to keep them busy, they’ve now been tasked with tracking down the mysterious beast that’s been decimating the town’s vegetable plots. With the fate of Lady Tottington’s much-loved giant vegetable competition hanging in the balance, can Wallace and Gromit save the day before the snooty Victor Quartermaine gets all the glory?
Characters
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Lady Campanula Tottington
Lady Campanula Tottington is a beautiful and wealthy spinster, and owner of the grand Tottington Hall, home of the Giant Vegetable Competition. She longs for romance but suspects her suitor, the rather oily Victor Quarteramaine, may not really be 'the one'...
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Victor Quatermaine
Something of a smooth operator, Victor Quatermaine is of aristocratic stock – he just doesn’t have a penny to his name. Setting his sights on the rich Lady Tottington, he’ll do anything to get in her good books. Perhaps tracking down the 'beast' who is ravaging the town's vegetable plots is a good way to start, even if he'll have to use devious means to do so...
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Hutch
A cute, though hungry, little bunny captured by Anti-Pesto and used in Wallace's fateful experiment to cure offending rabbits of their veg ravaging behaviour. Hutch transpires to be a useful, if somewhat unpredictable bunny.
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The Were-Rabbit
Beware the moon! In the dark of the night someone or something has been terrorising the gardens and veg-plots in Wallace and Gromit’s neighbourhood. When it turns out to be a giant veg-eating-rabbit-monster, it’s up to the Anti-Pesto team to track it down and prevent it from ruining Lady Tottington's competition. Gromit does his best, but Wallace never seems to be around to help out when the monster strikes...
Awards
3 wins & 28 nominations
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Oscar® Winner
Best Animated Feature
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Bafta Winner
Best British Film
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Bafta Winner
Children's Award
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Annie Winner
Best Animated Feature
Factfile
- Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit was released in over 3,000 theatres worldwide on October 14, 2005 and remained number one at the worldwide box office for three weeks in a row.
- The original film title was "The Great Vegetable Plot", but this was later changed to appeal to a wider, international audience.
- The film took 5 years to develop from concept to premiere and was shot entirely in Britain.
- An all-star cast was recruited for the new characters in this film, including Ralph Fiennes as Victor Quartermaine, Helena Bonham Carter as Lady Tottington and Peter Kay as PC Mackintosh.
- Curse of the Were-Rabbit earned Nick Park a fourth Oscar® and "Best Animated Feature" at the Academy Awards®.
