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What A Cartoon Movie! - Wallace & Gromit: the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
🕑 Added 2020-11-30 04:59:01 +0000 UTCGet out your finest wheel of Wensleydale, because it's time for our four-hour tour of Aardman's fantastic 2005 film, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. When the British stop-motion studio finally got into feature films with 2000's Chicken Run, it was only a matter of time before their star characters appeared on the silver screen—and this cracking good movie was definitely worth the wait! Listen in and learn about Aardman's history with Dreamworks—and how they avoided getting consumed—as well as the ins and outs of this painstakingly made stop-motion project. Now quit arsin' around and get ready for this month's super-size podcast!
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marathedemon
Nick Park’s dwelling on the studio’s notes about “kids in middle america” is an interesting point, as the next Aardman movie he directed, Early Man is so completely british focused it was almost incomprehensible to me, a dumb american. Early Man is a 90 minute in joke about Manchester United football (Early Man being Early Manchester, get it? even the title is a pun americans don’t understand). It was charming and fun but I really don’t know enough about soccer to even comment on whether it was successful as a film. A part of me is very happy Nick Park just gets to do what he wants, marketability be damned. But I really wish I wouldn’t have to be a life-long footy fan to enjoy one of his few feature films.
Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
In contrast with how the EXTREME Britishness of Wind and the Willows made me feel very melancholy, I LOVE how British this movie is and it's definitely a huge part of its charm amongst a large crop of other animated films of its time. Knowing now that Dreamworks tried to stifle a lot of that, I'm very glad they didn't totally succeed, and that the finished product is still very much a Wallace & Gromit thing through and through.
