Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)

With its annual Giant Vegetable Competition mere days away, a British village is being ravaged by scores of produce-chomping rabbits.

Enter bumbling inventor Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis) and his doggedly resourceful canine sidekick, Gromit, operators of Anti-Pesto Humane Pest Control.

A rustic Rube Goldberg, Wallace concocts cockamamie devices that include the hare-hoovering Bun-Vac 6000, running at 125 rpm (rabbits per minute), but his valiant attempt to “brainwash the bunnies” creates a more insidious adversary: the Were-Rabbit.

Worse, his competition for the affections of Lady Tottington (voiced by Helena Bonham Carter) is trigger-happy Victor Quartermaine (Ralph Fiennes), who sputters classics like “If I can’t have your money, I can still bag your bunny.”

Strewn with bad puns and references to everything from Caddyshack (1980) to Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927), Were-Rabbit is a treasure trove of cleverness.

And in its old-school claymation, the film is closer to the endearing Gumby reels of yore than the sterile Pixar productions.

It took an average of one day to shoot three seconds of film. The picture – the world’s first vegetarian horror movie – took five years to complete.

Wallace/Hutch
Peter Sallis
Victor Quartermaine
Ralph Fiennes
Lady Campanula Tottington
Helena Bonham Carter
PC Mackintosh
Peter Kay
Reverend Clement Hedges
Nicholas Smith
Mrs Mulch
Liz Smith
Mr Windfall
John Thomson
Miss Blight
Mark Gatiss
Mr Caliche
Vincent Ebrahim
Miss Thripp
Geraldine McEwan
Mr Growbag
Edward Kelsey
Mr Mulch
Dicken Ashworth
Mr Dibber
Robert Horvath
Mr Crock
Pete Atkin
Mrs Girdling
Noni Lewis
Mr Leaching
Ben Whitehead

Director
Steve Box
Nick Park

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