Wallace and Gromit The Mystery of the Were-Rabbit: Absurd humor so British (review)

This Halloween week, Gulli is rebroadcasting this excellent stop-motion animated film.

On the occasion of the rebroadcast of Wallace and Gromit The Mystery of the Were-Rabbitthis evening on Gulli, we are republishing our review of the animated film by Nick Park And Steve Boxreleased in theaters for Halloween in 2005. Not to be missed if you like quality animation, films filled with references to their predecessors (in this case horror films, although this version is perfectly intended for children) and British humor.

THE STORY : There is fever in the village a few days before the competition for the most beautiful vegetable. The zealous Wallace and Gromit keep an eye on things by capturing the rabbits that threaten the carefully tended vegetable gardens. But when a monstrous vegetarian animal begins to plague the county, jubilation gives way to exasperation.

At Aardman, excellence is a bare minimum

Cultivating its difference like others their vegetable garden, the Aardman studio has established itself in fifteen years as one of the strongest pillars of world animated cinema. Only Pixar and Ghibli rival it today in terms of creativity and originality. For the philistines, the Aardman style is: modeling clay, an elementary and fun material; a retro and parodic universe (Universal horror films are diverted here) with old-fashioned charm; absurd humor so British. Succeeding three amazing short films crowned by two Oscars, the fourth adventure of the inventor Wallace and his mutt Gromit will easily meet the expectations of die-hard fans and others. The legendary setbacks of Wallace, a caricature of the Englishman as naive as he is enterprising, take here a truly exciting fantastic turn. The unexpected success of Chicken Run, their first feature film, could have turned their heads. But the methodical craftsmen at Aardman have banished the word “compromise” from their language. By signing an adventure of the very British Wallace and Gromit where particularisms take precedence (the accents of the original voices are notably to be twisted), they do not obey any commercial logic. Even if some trashy jokes compare the film to the regressive hairiness of their benevolent partner DreamWorks.

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