History WesternAnimation / TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit

* TantramThrowing: Victor when he is foiled in his attampt to kill the Were-Rabbit with a blunderbuss.

* GeniusDitz: Wallace's inventions range from malfunctioning Rube Goldberg-esque devices to clever and groundbreaking gadgets -- which also have a tendency to malfunction. Notably, he seems more competent in the feature film than in most of the shorts. Notably, in spite of his general slowness he manages to invent an actual mind control device in this film, going well beyond the usual RubeGoldbergMachines into sci-fi territory.

* GeniusDitz: Wallace's inventions range from malfunctioning Rube Goldberg-esque devices to clever and groundbreaking gadgets -- which also have a tendency to malfunction. Notably, he seems more competent in the feature film than in most of the shorts.

* WhosOnFirst: after Victor loses his wig in the Bunny-vac.
->'''Victor:''' I want... toupee.\\
'''Wallace:''' Sure, we take cheques or cash.\\
'''Victor:''' No, you idiot, my hair is stuck in your machine.\\
'''Wallace:''' No, only rabbits in here. The hare, I think you'll find, is a much larger mammal.

* ActorAllusion: Peter Sallis had previously appeared in ''Film/TheCurseOfTheWerewolf''.

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''), and would be the last one until ''WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio'' won 17 years later. 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''.

* BackgroundHalo: Lady Tottington gets a background halo, along with a set of background ''wings'', when she advocates trapping the Were-Rabbit humanely. Lord Victor Quartermaine, who wants to just shoot it, gets a pair of background horns.

** A gnome's flashing red eyes fades to a portrait's flashing red eyes.

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''.

* AnachronismStew: The prices are in the old £sd currency, indicating that the action takes place before 1971, the price of a stick of candyfloss is 6d which is correct by 1966 values, and the colour codes of the three-phase wiring are also correct for this era; but this setting also has [=LEDs=] and diode lasers.

''WesternAnimation/Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit'' is the first (and, to date, only) feature-length animated film featuring Wallace & Gromit. It was the second co-production between Creator/DreamWorksAnimation and Creator/AardmanAnimations (with the former only having worldwide distribution rights as Aardman owns the film outright), as well as being Aardman's second full-length feature film, after ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun''. Series creator Creator/NickPark directed with Steve Box, who'd animated on ''WesternAnimation/ACloseShave'' and had previously directed the BAFTA-winning short ''WesternAnimation/StageFright'', serving as co-director.

''Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit'' is the first (and, to date, only) feature-length animated film featuring WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit. It was the second co-production between Creator/DreamWorksAnimation and Creator/AardmanAnimations (with the former only having worldwide distribution rights as Aardman owns the film outright), as well as being Aardman's second full-length feature film, after ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun''. Series creator Creator/NickPark directed with Steve Box, who'd animated on ''WesternAnimation/ACloseShave'' and had previously directed the BAFTA-winning short ''WesternAnimation/StageFright'', serving as co-director.

''The Curse of the Were-Rabbit'' is the first (and, to date, only) feature-length animated film featuring WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit. It was the second co-production between Creator/DreamWorksAnimation and Creator/AardmanAnimations, as well as being Aardman's second full-length feature film, after ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun''. Series creator Creator/NickPark directed with Steve Box, who'd animated on ''WesternAnimation/ACloseShave'' and had previously directed the BAFTA-winning short ''WesternAnimation/StageFright'', serving as co-director.

* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Even if he just fired his gun, Victor should know better than to wave it around in a crowded area like a church full of people.

* OutlandishDeviceSetting: a WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit cartoon about GeniusDitz inventor Wallace and his mute but HypercompetentSidekick Gromit working as garden pest controllers in a British neighborhood where gardening is almost a religion. While pursuing a giant rabbit, Gromit is driving the business vehicle, which is being pulled by a tow cable that has snared the rabbit. As the rabbit tries to escape through its tunnels, Gromit finds his windshield accumulating much loose earth. He engages the wipers, which have four settings: Rain, Snow, Loam, Heavy Loam. Perhaps this is not the first time this vehicle has had to travel underground.

* MediumBlending: The film makes use of both the series' usual StopMotion puppets with claymation-styled CGI effects for elements like the Bun-Vac, the rabbits floating inside it, and the fur on the Were-Rabbit.

* AbortedArc: When Wallace is unable to repair the Mind-Manipulator-O-Matic, [[spoiler: Hutch]] begins doing so instead. Unfortunately they are interrupted, and it never comes into play again. [[spoiler: Wallace is instead cured of his kounanthropy by being exposed to the smell of Stinking Bishop, and Hutch retains Wallace's voice and personality. A DeletedScene involved Wallace having to use the repaired Mind-Manipulator-O-Matic to fully cure himself after transforming back but with rabbit ears still.]]

* InkSuitActor: Mrs Mulch resembles Liz Smith, the actress providing the voice for her.

* ItsPersonal: Victor is the one of the few who knows the real identity of the Were-Rabbit and makes it clear to Lady Tottington that this trope is the real reason he wants the creature killed.

* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: TheVicar gives a doom and gloom rant about the Were-Rabbit with dramatic organ music in the background. The church organist is told to knock it off.

** 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.]]

* RedplicaBaron: In the ante-penultimate scene, Philip pursues Gromit on a fairgrounds. Gromit comes upon a ride called "Dog Fighters", enters it and flies out in a Sopwith Camel, but Philip follows close behind in Richthofen's Fokker Dr.I, somewhat similar to the setting of the Baron's final fight.

* SpreadWingsFrameShot: During the church meeting where the townpeople try to decide what to do about the Were-Rabbit attack, Lady Tottington, recommending Wallace for the job, appears to have wings and a halo from the pulpit behind her.

* StealthPun: Towards the end, Wallace finds himself clothes-less, so he grabs a handy cheese box to cover his private bits. The box has a "May contain nuts" label on it.
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* SuperMultiPurposeRoom: Basically every room in Wallace's house has built-in intricate mechanisms and contraptions to help Wallace and Gromit wake up, get dressed, effortlessly get seated for breakfast, get the breakfast prepared, get into their car, and and and ... See ToTheBatpole.

* TheVoiceless: All of the non-human characters, except for when the rabbits howl at the moon, cheer [[spoiler:when Gromit [[TakingTheBullet takes the bullet in his plane]] that was meant for the Were-Rabbit]], and cry when [[spoiler:Wallace is believed dead]]; and Hutch when [[spoiler:he's become a were-Wallace]].

[[caption-width-right:350:This time, [[WesternAnimation/WhatsOperaDoc the wabbit]] kills [[RussianReversal you!]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:300:This time, [[WesternAnimation/WhatsOperaDoc the wabbit kills]] [[RussianReversal you!]]]]

* ArtisticLiscenseGunSafety: Even if he just fired his gun, Victor should know better than to wave it around in a crowded area like a church full of people.