One of my favorite dogs (who cares that he's animated!) took home a Golden Boy last night. And I'm not talking about George Clooney...
The Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film went to Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Using their own little fashion touch...co-directors Nick Park and Steve Box, the main clay manipulators behind Wallace & Gromit, placed gaudy striped bow ties that matched their own on their twin Oscars.
If you have somehow missed this marvelous little film, it follows the continuing adventures of Wallace, the cheese-loving inventor, and his literate, faithful sidekick dog, Gromit.
In their first full-length film, the duo's small English village suffers from a nightly scourge of ravenous rabbits. So Wallace designs the ultimate humane solution: an ultra-humane bunny-rabbit-sucker-upper known as the Bun-Vac 6000. (A spiral of bunnies swirling around in the transparent canister of the Bun-Vac 6000 is a vison to be treasured!)
Then, when the moon is full, there appears a monstrous rabbit with the strength of 10, teeth the size of ax blades and ears like terrible tombstones. Hapless hilarity ensues, with a nod to classic horror films, King Kong, and the obligatory car chase. There's even a romantic love triangle between eco-toff, Lady Tottington, milady's bloodthirsty suitor, Victor Quartermaine, and the genial and clueless Wallace.
Get the DVD, break out the popcorn, and curl up with your favorite sidekick pooch(s)for a couple of hours of a fun film!
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