One of my favorite dogs (who cares that he's animated!) took home a Golden Boy last night. And I'm not talking about George Clooney...
The Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film went to Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Using their own little fashion touch...
If you have somehow missed this marvelous little film, it follows the continuing adventures of Wallace, the cheese-loving inventor, and his literate, faithful sidekick dog, Gromit.
In their first full-length film, the duo's small English village suffers from a nightly scourge of ravenous rabbits. So Wallace designs the ultimate humane solution: an ultra-humane bunny-rabbit-sucker-upper known as the Bun-Vac 6000. (A spiral of bunnies swirling around in the transparent canister of the Bun-Vac 6000 is a vison to be treasured!)
Then, when the moon is full, there appears a monstrous rabbit with the strength of 10, teeth the size of ax blades and ears like terrible tombstones. Hapless hilarity ensues, with a nod to classic horror films, King Kong, and the obligatory car chase. There's even a romantic love triangle between eco-toff, Lady Tottington, milady's bloodthirsty suitor, Victor Quartermaine, and the genial and clueless Wallace.
Get the DVD, break out the popcorn, and curl up with your favorite sidekick pooch(s)for a couple of hours of a fun film!
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