Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) on Netflix
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Wallace and his dog Gromit run Anti-Pesto, clearing garden rabbits without harming them. Before Tottington Hall's giant vegetable contest, something begins eating village gardens at night.
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Every year Tottington Hall hosts a giant vegetable competition, and the villagers guard their plots from rabbits. Wallace and his dog Gromit run Anti-Pesto, a pest control service that removes garden rabbits without harming them, and Lady Campanula Tottington hires the pair for her estate. Wallace builds a machine to give rabbits a dislike of vegetables, but its first use fuses his brain with one rabbit's. Named Hutch, that rabbit loses its taste for vegetables. One night a Were-Rabbit damages gardens across the town, and Lord Victor Quartermaine, a hunter courting Lady Tottington, volunteers to deal with it.
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- Robert Horvathas Mr. Dibber (voice)
- James Matheras Additional Voice (voice)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
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- Shortly after the film's release, a fire at the Aardman Animations warehouse destroyed thirty years of work on past projects, including the character models and sets made for Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
- The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, which made it the first stop-motion film to be nominated for an Academy Award; it also won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film.
- While making the film, Nick Park was sent notes by DreamWorks asking for changes to appeal to contemporary American audiences, including changing the subtitle from The Great Vegetable Plot to The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
- DreamWorks took a $29 million write-down on Wallace & Gromit after it underperformed in the home DVD market, even though it grossed $192 million against a $30 million budget at the box office.
- Nick Park spoke publicly about the difficulties of working with DreamWorks on the film, such as constant production notes and demands to alter the material for American children, and it discouraged him from making another feature film for years.
- Wallace's van is an Austin A35; for promotion, brothers Mark and David Armé spent 500 man-hours restoring an original 1964 van, then denting and distressing it to replicate the film model, in a color called Preston Green after Nick Park's hometown.
- Peter Sallis, the voice of Wallace, also voiced the rabbit Hutch, whose dialogue is almost entirely phrases previously spoken by Wallace; Sallis's voice was digitally accelerated to create Hutch's voice.
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