Thursday, December 29, 2005
WALLACE & GROMIT in THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT
Featuring: Peter Sallis, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter (voices)
Brief Synopsis: A monster is eating up all the vegetables in the village. Wallace and Gromit try to put their hands and mitts on it.
Comments: What I love about Wallace & Gromit is that they are quintessentially English. The tea, the cheese, the car are all wonderful and quaint reminders of a faraway land (well for me!).
Plotlines for all their films are always very tight with a well written story gathering pace and drawing you in before you are hit with unexpected twists and the side serving of subtle humour (again a bit British - Totty anyone? Even the planes at the end have the allied markings found on British planes in the second World War!) thrown in. The attention to detail was always lavish (which you would expect if you are making films where it takes a day to make 3 seconds of footage) and with this being their first feature film, all this was not going to change.
I can't say much more than that without ruining the story completely but it is well worth watching and if nothing else, always interesting to see (and support) a medium on screen that is completely different to life acting and animated films. My wife's words, "it was very good actually."
Things to learn from this film: Beware of your ordinary garden gnome when stealing vegetables. He may just be a motion detector for a burglar alarm system.
Rating: 7.75 /10
Featuring: Peter Sallis, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter (voices)
Brief Synopsis: A monster is eating up all the vegetables in the village. Wallace and Gromit try to put their hands and mitts on it.
Comments: What I love about Wallace & Gromit is that they are quintessentially English. The tea, the cheese, the car are all wonderful and quaint reminders of a faraway land (well for me!).
Plotlines for all their films are always very tight with a well written story gathering pace and drawing you in before you are hit with unexpected twists and the side serving of subtle humour (again a bit British - Totty anyone? Even the planes at the end have the allied markings found on British planes in the second World War!) thrown in. The attention to detail was always lavish (which you would expect if you are making films where it takes a day to make 3 seconds of footage) and with this being their first feature film, all this was not going to change.
I can't say much more than that without ruining the story completely but it is well worth watching and if nothing else, always interesting to see (and support) a medium on screen that is completely different to life acting and animated films. My wife's words, "it was very good actually."
Things to learn from this film: Beware of your ordinary garden gnome when stealing vegetables. He may just be a motion detector for a burglar alarm system.
Rating: 7.75 /10
Comments:
Only 7.75? I thought it deserved an 8 at least.
Brilliant movie I agree. I could feel my little finger dying to stick itself out everytime Wallace had a cup of tea.
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Brilliant movie I agree. I could feel my little finger dying to stick itself out everytime Wallace had a cup of tea.
