Monster Rabbit On Loose ; W&G Fans Will Welcome This 'Curse'

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The disadvantage of waiting a decade or so for the first feature comedy contrived around the delightful cartoon characters Wallace and Gromit - respectively, an eccentric bachelor inventor and his silent, resourceful, long-suffering dog - is that even fond expectations tend to grow a bit stale over an extended period of time. The team's creator, Nick Park, won Academy Awards in 1994 and 1996 for best animated short, guiding his characters through half- hour slapstick masterpieces titled "The Wrong Trousers" and "A Close Shave."

Since it was unlikely that the eventual W&G feature, a fable of bunny infestation and vegetable garden havoc subtitled "The Curse of the Were-Rabbit," would surpass its predecessors, one should be grateful that the long-awaited picture does have plenty on the ball. What it lacks is the sense of freshness that also animated "Chicken Run," the first feature from the home of Wallace & Gromit, the Aardman animation studio in Bristol, England.

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Monster Rabbit On Loose ; W&G Fans Will Welcome This 'Curse'

The new movie is in the position of striking while the iron is cold, and it demands considerable patience while setting up the horror movie gags that justi...

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