This is hands down the most enjoyable movie I’ve seen this year, laughing from one end to the other; loving the visual style, the terrible puns and the complete lack of self conciousness about it, the sly homages, the visual jokes, the nudge-nudge-wink-wink humour that is a touch old-fashioned while being too racy for the kidlets (it’s ok – they’ve cleverly buried it all in a cloud of innuendo and sight gags). The animation is great and as always, so very impressive considering the work that must go on to produce a mere 3 seconds of film, the artwork is beautiful and nostalgic, and the bunnies! Oh the bunnies! I may have made so many girly squeaks at the sheer cuteness of some scenes.
As the movie begins, Wallace and Gromit are found to be operating a successful pest control business (Anti-Pesto, heh), protecting the village’s prized vegetables from the voracious rabbits in the neighbourhood in the most humane and ingenious ways. However, Wallace’s inventing gets the best of him, and an experiment with a mind-control device, a vegetable-crazy rabbit, and moonlight soon leads to a humungous dangerous beast on the loose. Wallace and Gromit are called to unwittingly track down the monster of their own making in order to allow the biggest social event of the year – the giant vegetable contest – to go ahead at the Tottington estate. Lady Tottington herself is a great believer of Anti-Pesto’s humane rabbit solution, as well as a growing fan of Wallace himself, much to the disgust of her gung-ho fiancé, Victor, a throwback to the mustache twirling villains of old who would rather shoot all the fluffy things instead. All these elements collide in a frantic, clever, funny chase against time and Victor and his desire to hunt, and the were-rabbit’s need to feed.
