FAQ Of Wallace & Gromit The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

It’s been 10 years since Wallace and Gromit first animated their lives in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. But the characters have stayed fresh with children, adults, and fans of all ages. This article provides answers to questions about Wallace & Gromit from their creators and from members of the public.

1.What is Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

In 1999 , two great British film animators, Nick Park and Steve Box as well as Canadians Peter Lord (Wallace) and Kevin North Whitehead (Gromit), created their first stop-motion animated film, The Curse of the Were Rabbit.

“This sequel to the much-loved A Grand Day Out sees our two ragamuffins come up against a whole new batch of human-sized vegetables and need to defend their reputation for guilelessness once again. This time, however, Wallace and Gromit must rescue Queen Victoria after a conspiracy involving an entire workforce of vegetable villains threatens England’s national food supply.”

2.What age is the Curse of the Were-Rabbit for?

The director Nick Park is quoted as saying: “It’s right at the top of our list !” to create a half hour full length B&W stop motion feature film next year. However he was keen to point out that audience figures for the first one had been “extraordinary-quite extraordinary and moving.”

3.What is contained in Curse of the Were Rabbit?

The DVD contains a wide variety of material among which are; Sneak preview video, More Back Stage Footage, Behind The Scenes on A Grand Day Out , animated episodes based on feature film concepts by Nick Park as well as two stories from other sources. (‘ Fenris the Wolf’ by Barbara Baynton and ‘The Elephant’s Graveyard’ from The Amulet-both supplementary stories).

We can be in no doubt that this is one of the best stop motion animation releases of recent years with some excellent storylines: which also boasts appealing characters to give us a new experience.

4. In which countries is Wallace & Gromit seen?

HBO and the Cartoon Network air it in America, Channel 4 in Britain, TBS network on Atlanta USA , CITV Disney Junior broadcasts for pre-schoolers (4 to 7 year old children) around the world. Screen Scotland’s James Younger Hill listed Fox Television Distribution as a distributor after its DVD release early 2003: “The Curse of The Were-Rabbit proved a great success for 20th Century Fox when it was released on DVD in the US last October and they are strongly encouraging fellow distributors to come forward. The plan is to launch a co-ordinated international marketing campaign.

4.What are some interesting facts about Wallace?

He is basically a real person (no pun intended) who was abandoned as a baby left on the coat-hanger in an old shop and adopted by Austen Burton, 21 years older than himself . He used to be called Bob Burridge but changed his surname when writing letters at college. Strictly speaking he never did take after Gromit’s other cat Mr Sniffers’.

He is the main point of interest in a photograph taken at Harrod’s department store – and has never been spotted there again. The head hunter who found him originally, Anthony Felder , still appears from time to time on ” This Morning” (British TV show).

5.Is Curse of the Were-Rabbit stop motion?

Yes, this is the first stop motion film by Aardman out of its studio in Bristol, England. The 3 claymation characters (Gromit;Aardman’s famous Wallace and Gromit) are very similar to each other with differnt movement techniques which gives a believable appearance for these unique creatures.

“Curse of the Were-Rabbit” is a joint venture with Universal Studios, who produced it together with Aardman . Chris Menges and Nick Park decided to take this artistic step in their career as animators. They thought it would be fun to move outside professional animation by using digital techniques on board still cameras instead of traditional 2D & 3D film making (i.e., stop motion).

6 . What do you think about Curse of the Were-Rabbit?

I thought it was quite good, it had its ups and downs, but the animation was brilliant. The effects were not as strong in some parts of a scene, but overall the film did live up to expectations for sure.

The story of Gromit took about three months to complete before other items like character designs began going ahead etc., so you can imagine how slow life could be at times on that fabled green screen!

7.What is the plot of Wallace and Gromit?

The story was actually quite easy to plot out. Things are so drawn from different episodes, surely certain people will notice but I’d hope most of the general public don’t realise that a lot is based on things we’ve seen throughout our childhood; mostly in one form or another!

The first feature film was also quite a challenge to develop as the story itself has so many short stories linked together. So we worked hard over several years creating unique films from each 9 episodes based on all those different mini adventures and interactions of characters & toys.

8.How was Wallace and Gromit animated?

The first feature length film had to mix live action and CGI characters while the latest two were all computer generated animation.

The Gromit character’s eyebrows, eyelashes etc., needed a lot of detailed attention as there was so much facial detail in the animated world for him to interact with!

When used mainly for his looks on real life sets such as filming markets etc., he uses multiple cameras placed below lighting equipment which actually produces images that look very much like live action, with walls and floor shadows hiding his three dimensional world.

9.Have Wallace and Gromit become an established toy manufacturer?

Yes, after a slow start Gromit has become increasingly popular and toys are making great profits for the company.Periodically new characters for the next series of movies would be invented by myself to fit into the plots (Flopsy-Muffs) but more often than not we’d simply add details as scenes unfolded to gradually form our $30m+ budgeted feature length animated film versions.

Characters such as Suzy, Mrs Potato Head Gromwell (parents), Ginger Pig & Cat Deery-Wickman might change a little at each new film but they are cute females weighing 12Kg+.

10.What are some of the things that make this movie funny?

Strangely and sadly people frequently ask me if I’m making a sequel to my second favourite character, The Lazy Hormone.

Definitely not!  Many of the jokes are centred on him just being lazy whenever he needs to do anything that has “no benefits”. And believe it or not there was some very funny stuff going on here in spite of that one thing alone.

It is funny because no matter what he does, causes or messes up–it still gets worse when everyone can see you sneaking out without saying goodbye.

11. What happens to them when they change into one?

When their village is raided and they betook themselves to the city like other rabbits, they immediately found difficulty fitting in–there was a new term for them in towns outside “The Village” which meant no-hopers.

And even if you did have worse odds than guys who worked as accountants or seashore lifeguards there were also some very odd subcultures of people who got attached to these animals. Entering The Hormone’s room, his bed features a panda.

Where this bizarre adventure takes place is entirely in your imagination.

12.Who are the main characters Of Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit?

After the next one demonstrates that it is so important not to mess around with this curse, Wallace decides he needs a friend.

In “The Curse of The Were-Rabbit”, Gromit invited his friends–fellow rats (who remember their own name) and homeless snails who need a tail foal after they are on Opium Tincture treatment for their paltry condition–to help him get through his middle-aged bromance crisis.

13.Why is Wallace and Gromit The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Rated PG?

In the end of this film Enid is spotted with a black kitten and she says that Wallace has another secret identity. So if they could be friends, she would like to share her boyfriend’s values as well. This shows that Gromit did have ulterior motives for starting his friendship with Wallace anyway by showing off some of his own hobbies revealing part of himself despite him still thinking he was undercover from doing so in the past movie. However in A Matter of Loaf and Death, Enid says Wallace’s secret was revealed by himself.

14. Why Was Gromit ‘s Grunt Not In This Movie?

Jabberwocky has lived every day down in the bowels of Heck (and often appears to do so) since his first appearance in “The Wrong Trousers”. While he is convinced that this will be a long fight–but ten acious one–against the Wocky, he doesn’t want to be called into action at any time.

But after Gromit’s tail is bitten by a Snark and he goes to The House of Stuff Up for repair, “Time Squeak” also visits Heck for her pet who happens to be Wallaceish’ed up as well. He has run out of catnip and won’t stop squeaking till his little paws have a catnip fix.

15.Is Wallace and Gromit a horror?

While this is a series of stop-motion animated films and not horror movies, Wallace’s personality can be considered more evil than most other villains in family friendly media. His sadistic need for two milk bottles at all times to drink his favorite beverage also seems very odd even given his snarky nature as what it shows about this character along over the course of many cartoons that he wants something so bad that he wouldn’t care how many people get hurt in the process, which is not very comforting.

16.Is Wallace and Gromit based on a true story?

The creators of Wallace and Gromit have said that they tried to make the films in such a way that it seemed possible that a living person could be pulling their strings.

“Dr. Peter Grandi is mentioned many times on his personal website but only in passing; he is listed as “an animated character who supposedly has been involved during the making of most of the Wallace and Gromit films”. This isn’t true because Dr. Grandi worked on all but one movie.”

Additionally, if you research controversies about Dr. Peter Grandi’s claims that Clive Coates contacted him to help test-market his movies in Australia.

17.Will there ever be another Wallace and Gromit movie?

This is highly unlikely and maybe even impossible due to a contractual agreement between the makers of Wallace and Gromit movies stating that any series or sequels must be approved by Aardman’s animation studio.

In addition, there has been no talk about making another movie in many years.

However, there have been several spin-offs including: “One Winters Tale” (1997); “” (1999) which was based on his book from 1991.

“Gromit Unleashed” (2002), which was the sequel to “The Wrong Trousers”; and a feature-length pilot for Fox that would have been a remake of Aardman’s 1994 film, “Fleadom”.

18.Who are Wallace and Grommit’s parents?

So far there has never really been much information given out about Wallace & Grommet’s parents. However, there seems to be a certain logic that if the family dog – Gromit could become an assassin then so too might daughter Miss Quimby.

As far as Miss Quimby we seem to know that she was “born into a life of privilege” suggesting perhaps that her parents were richer but always pushed him (maybe even scolded and in desperation Wallace) so much for what he wanted then possibly driving himself crazy trying it out just like Arnold does with Einstein’s brain.

19.Is Curse of the Were Rabbit on Netflix?

Nope. It is not on Netflix, but it will be released April 13th 2018. In 1988 Aardman received a longlist nomination for the Academy Award in Short Subjects.

They have been nominated four times (see below) though only once won: “The Wrong Trousers” in 1994 which was also nominated as Best Animated Feature Film of 1989 with Jack-O and Bert which lost to Aladdin and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Duck Amuck) respectively.

20.What streaming service has Curse of the Were Rabbit?

Curse of the Were Rabbit is available on Netflix. Streaming services are very similar in that all feature the same general types of programs. Though you pay for what you want to see if it comes down to one or two choices before deciding. its best not just your favorite movie shows and sports programming matter more than any other genre but then there will be a few hits as well.

So when streamers offer dozens and dozens of titles some people still end up seeing the same movies. It’s to be expected when every user wants basically exactly what they want also if there are no shows or even music videos on your box but you get easier access.