History WesternAnimation / TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit

* SeriousBusiness: The veg competition. It's Wallace and Gromit so the monster isn't gonna kill anybody, so to keep the tension/plot going, the townspeople take the competition ''super'' seriously. PlayedForLaughs and lampshaded to hell and back. At one point PC Macintosh just flat out says that the whole thing is more trouble than it's worth.

** The music for the opening scene sounds very similar to the main theme from ''Film/TheElephantMan''.

* WolvesHowlAtTheMoon: Parodied. The were-rabbit howls at the moon doing a PrimalChestPound, making all the rabbits hearing it imitate him.

** The morning after the first Were-Rabbit rampage, Gromit looks into the kitchen and sees [[spoiler: the fridge door open and the cheese dish left on the floor,with bits of half-eaten cheese around it.]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: So, ''so'' many {{Double Entendre}}s...

** At some point, Gromit turns on the radio, and the song is Art Garfunkel's "[[WesternAnimation/WatershipDown Bright Eyes]]". He turns it off and [[LampshadeHanging rolls his eyes]].

Released in 2005, it won not only the AcademyAward for "Best Animated Feature", but also the British Academy Film Awards' "Best British Film", the British Comedy Awards' "Best Comedy Film", and the HugoAward for "Best Dramatic Presentation - Long Form", among many others.

The combination of a vegetable-growing contest and Wallace's latest invention accidentally unleashes a giant rampaging parody of ancient HammerHorror cliches on their unsuspecting village... oh, also a giant [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent half-man, half-bunny]]. This received a LicensedGame adaptation and is noted as being, possibly, the only horror film in existence to feature a vegetarian monster.

* {{Parody}}: Of HammerHorror films.

** Lady Tottington inviting Wallace to see her secret garden is probably the most risqué.

** Lady Tottington also invites Wallace to see her [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Secret_Garden secret garden]].

* ShoutOut: Several. The entire film's a Hammer Horror parody, even. They range from Dracula to KingKong to Jaws, and so on.
** At some point, Gromit turns on the radio, and the song is Art Garfunkel's "[[WatershipDown Bright Eyes]]." He turns it off and [[LampshadeHanging rolls his eyes]].
** To ''{{Peanuts}}'' and Snoopy's role-play as a "World War 1 Flying Ace", when Gromit is flying a Sopwith Camel, and Philip is in a red triplane, like the Red Baron.
*** WordOfGod was that it was an intentional CallBack to their third short "A Close Shave".

** The music for the opening scene sounds very similar to the main theme from ''TheElephantMan.''

** At some point, Gromit turns on the radio, and the song is Art Garfunkel's ''[[WatershipDown Bright Eyes]]''. He turns it off and [[LampshadeHanging rolls his eyes]].

''The Curse of the Were-Rabbit'' is the first full-length animated film featuring Franchise/WallaceAndGromit. It was the second co-production between Creator/DreamWorksAnimation and AardmanAnimations, as well as being Aardman's second full-length feature film, after ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun''.

** When Gromit notices [[spoiler:Wallace]] turning into the Were-Rabbit, Wallace says [[WesternAnimation/BugsBunny "What's up Doc?"]]

* YouCanRunButYouCan'tHide: Near the end, this line from Victor: "You can hop, but you can't hide, [[spoiler:Pesto]]!"

** Later, [[MassOhCrap a collective one from Gromit, Wallace, and a group of rabbits]] after Wallace and Gromit high-five, only to discover that Gromit let go of the rope he was holding onto.

* AbsentMindedProfessor: Wallace.

* MidBattleTeaBreak: Gromit and Philip are fighting in a bumper car that suddenly stops working. They stop fighting to insert some more change, then they resume fighting as soon as the car starts working again.

* TheVoiceless: All of the non-human characters, except for when the rabbits howl at the moon, and cry when [[spoiler:Wallace is believed dead]]; and Hutch when [[spoiler:he's become a were-Wallace]].