History WesternAnimation / TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit

* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: When Victor attempts to scare Wallace away from Lady Tottington, he makes his presence known when by throwing an axe at a tree Wallace has his back to, pinning him to it by his suspenders.

* SilverBullet: Spoofed. A were-rabbit can only be killed with a ''gold'' bullet -- 24 [[IncrediblyLamePun carat]].

* TransformationHorror: [[spoiler:Both of Wallace's transformations into the Were-Rabbit are NOT PlayedForLaughs like you'd expect.]]

** The rabbits in the film have pig-like noses, while real rabbits have small triangular noses.

* LowClearance: Wallace forgets that the lady were-rabbit decoy on top of the van is too high to fit under the tunnel and accidentally knocks it clean off.

* CreateYourOwnVillain: Wallace accidentally creates the titular monster after an experiment to get the rabbits not to eat vegetables [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]].

** Most of the villagers have names related to plants or gardening. Even Lady Campanula Tottington gets in on it; Campanula is a type of flower.

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: There's a full moon for four nights in a row. A full moon can only occur once (or twice for a blue moon) a month.

* AsideGlance: Gromit. All the time.

* RealityEnsues: The reverend points out to Victor that gold bullets don't come cheap due to being made out of, well, gold. After wasting all three, Victor's forced to jury-rig another bullet by himself using the contest's trophy, an elephant gun and a box of fireworks.

** When the Were-Rabbit breaks into Anti-Pesto's protected vegetables and eats them, it cuts to Gromit waking up, suggesting the last scene was just a nightmare. He was actually woken up by the sound of the alarms on the portraits of Anti-Pesto clients.

* CivilizedAnimal: Gromit is usually depicted as walking upright, and is capable of creating and operating complex machinery. Generally he's shown to be ''significantly'' more shrewd and sensible than his master. However, despite all of this, everyone treats him the same as you treat ''any'' dog.

** When Wallace leaves Gromit alone in the van, he's parked outside a hairdressers called ''WesternAnimation/ACloseShave''.

* StabTheSalad: When one of the villagers grumpily remarks that she hopes the rabbits "get what's coming to them", the next shot has Gromit holding something on a cutting board and raising a big knife... and then he starts cutting up carrots for the bunnies.

** After the Were-Rabbit escapes from the church, it cuts to Gromit waking up, suggesting the last scene was just a nightmare. He was actually woken up by the sound of the alarms on the portraits.

* MatchCut: The town meeting opens and closes with one: from Wallace surrounded by his pictures of clients, all sounding an alert, to him surrounded by the actual angry clients, and from Totty to a signed photo of her in the van. Later there's a cut from Totty to a cloud the same shape as her hair.

* BlueIsHeroic: Anti-Pesto. Both of them wear blue hats and, in Wallace's case, blue overalls.

* ShutUpGunshot: Lord Victor Quartermaine wishes to announce to the vegetable festival attendees that he intends to kill the were-rabbit, and that he has two more golden bullets (the creature's only weakness). But everyone is too busy panicking to listen to him, so he fires into the air to get their attention. And then he facepalms, as [[DidntThinkThisThrough he realizes he just wasted one of the golden bullets]].

* WhatTheHellHero: When Wallace snaps at Gromit for supposedly ditching him whilst on the lookout for the Were-Rabbit. Technically, Gromit inadvertently had to do that to chase the Were-Rabbit.
-->'''Wallace:''' So where did you get to, lad? I thought I told you to stay put. It’s gone mad around here. I thought we were supposed to be a team. How are we ever gonna catch this thing if you go gallivanting off on your own all the time? ''[As Wallace continues his rant, Gromit notices footprints and decides to follow them]'' [[OhNoNotAgain You're doing it again!]]

Released in 2005, it won the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for "Best Animated Feature", the second DreamWorks picture to achieve this after the inaugural ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}''. It's also the second non-American film to receive this honour, and the second non-computer animated film (the first in both cases was ''Anime/SpiritedAway''). It also won the British Academy Film Awards' "Best British Film", the British Comedy Awards' "Best Comedy Film", and the UsefulNotes/HugoAward for "Best Dramatic Presentation - Long Form", among many others. It's currently the second highest-grossing stop-motion film ever, behind Aardman's own ''Chicken Run''.

Released in 2005, it won the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for "Best Animated Feature", the second Dreamworks picture to achieve this after the inaugural ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}''. It's also the second non-American film to receive this honour, and the second non-computer-animated film (the first in both cases was ''Anime/SpiritedAway''). It also won the British Academy Film Awards' "Best British Film", the British Comedy Awards' "Best Comedy Film", and the UsefulNotes/HugoAward for "Best Dramatic Presentation - Long Form", among many others. It's currently the second highest-grossing stop-motion film ever, behind Aardman's own ''Chicken Run''.

Released in 2005, it won the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for "Best Animated Feature", the second Dreamworks picture to achieve this after the inaugural ''WesternAnimation/Shrek''. It's also the second non-American film to receive this honour, and the second non-computer-animated film (the first in both cases was ''Anime/SpiritedAway'').
It also won the British Academy Film Awards' "Best British Film", the British Comedy Awards' "Best Comedy Film", and the UsefulNotes/HugoAward for "Best Dramatic Presentation - Long Form", among many others.
It's currently the second highest-grossing stop-motion film ever, behind Aardman's own ''Chicken Run''.

Released in 2005, it won not only the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for "Best Animated Feature", but also the British Academy Film Awards' "Best British Film", the British Comedy Awards' "Best Comedy Film", and the UsefulNotes/HugoAward for "Best Dramatic Presentation - Long Form", among many others. It's currently the second highest-grossing stop-motion film ever, behind Aardman's own ''Chicken Run''.

* HungerHallucination:
** In the climax, the were-rabbit mistakes Lady Tottington for a giant carrot. Justified by the lady's wardrobe of dresses that are deliberately colored and patterned to look like vegetables.
** PlayedForDrama before that: [[spoiler:Wallace is trying to rebuild the Mind-Manipulation-o-Matic when he holds up a part that looks like a carrot. He hallucinates that it ''is'' a carrot, and is about to eat it when he snaps out of it at the last second. The realisation that his mind is becoming a "rabbity mush" is enough to briefly push him over the DespairEventHorizon.]]

** Victor Quartermaine is more into the idea of marriage than Lady Tottington, and subsequent scenes show that there's some level of incompatibility between them, implying that there's something not quite right with the relationship.

* FreudianSlip: Victor does a couple of this when talking about the Were-Rabbit after finding out its identity. It bites him in the butt later on.

* CreativeClosingCredits: Rabbits float past as if in the holding tank of the Bun-Vac. Some of them are in costume, some [[PowerGlows glow bright colours as if radioactive]], and some interact with each other or with the credits text. [[spoiler:The last rabbit bumps its head on the paragraph promising that NoAnimalsWereHarmed.]]

* CreativeClosingCredits: Rabbits float past as if in the holding tank of the Bun-Vac. Some of them are in costume, and some interact with each other, or with the credits text. [[spoiler:The last rabbit bumps its head on the paragraph promising that NoAnimalsWereHarmed.]]

** In the car, Gromit is briefly listening to "Bright Eyes" from ''{{WesternAnimation/Watership Down}}'' on the radio right before he gives chase to the large shadow figure.