Excellent Laughs-to-Rabbits Ratio

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit was THE most fun I’ve had at the movies in a very long time.  It is now struggling with Grizzly Man for my movie of the year – talk about polar opposites!  Of course, there’s a million Oscar-contending movies coming out now, so the top ten list is far from written.  But W&G was so brilliant.  It had everything – comedy, drama, action, romance, horror – something for everyone!  Especially if you like bunnies – or cheese.  It is amazing the range of emotions that can be conveyed by a dog made out of clay.  I think that one of my favorite scenes involved Gromit trying to deal with all the rabbits that he and Wallace (as the well-known pest control team known as “Anti Pesto”) were storing in their house.  After he chopped up carrots and poured them down various chutes to the bunnies in the basement, he realized that a few bunnies had made it into the kitchen.  He opened a bread box labeled “Buns” and there were three little bunnies, each eating a pastry.  Priceless!  The bunnies, giggling madly, leaped away and shot into the refrigerator.  Gromit slowly opened the door and peered inside.  Cheese, but no bunnies.  Then we see that there’s a bunch of bunnies sitting in the refrigerator door like bottles of ketchup and mustard.  Very slowly, Gromit turns and sees them all staring back at him.  They leap all over him, laughing their little rabbit heads off.  I was right there with them.