Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Steve Box directs. Dave Alex Riddett behind the camera. Julian Nott scores. David McCormick cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United Kingdom, United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

• 185 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
• 2Made its money back 6.4× over at the box office.
• 3Released 21 years ago.
• 4International production across 2 countries: United Kingdom, United States of America.
• 5265+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
• 6Directed by Steve Box, shot by Dave Alex Riddett. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
• 7Original score by Julian Nott. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
• 8Editor David McCormick shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
• 9Peter Sallis and Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter carry the top of the cast.
• 10Marketing tagline: "Something wicked this way hops.".
• 11IMDB entry: tt0312004 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
• 12Classified under 21 themes, including "northern england", "hunter", "competition", "village".
• 13Released under 15 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography

Dave Alex Riddett

Original score

Julian Nott

Editing

David McCormick

Production design

Phil Lewis

VFX supervisor

Paddy Eason

Sound

Danny Hambrook

Runtime

85 min · 1h 25m

Aspect ratio (typical)

1.37:1 (Academy)

Status

Released

Budget

$30,000,000

Box office

$192,610,372

Return

642% of budget

Original language

EN

Certification (US)

G

IMDB

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

Rotten Tomatoes

95% 🍅 Fresh

Metacritic

87/100

IMDB rating

7.5/10 · 152,997 votes

MPAA

G

Also by

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• 
  Stage Fright

  1997 · ★ 6.5

Stills · wallpapers

Selected frames

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Trailers & featurettes

Watch the pieces

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  Wallace's Wild Transformation - Extended Preview

  Clip · Official
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  Wallace's Were-Rabbit Transformation

  Clip · Official
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  Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit - Trailer

  Trailer
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  Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit [Featurette]

  Featurette

Community reviews

What people are saying

• CinemaSerf2025-04-20
  ★ 7/10

  I was a bit wary of a feature-length story for this pair. I didn’t think there would be enough to sustain ninety minutes, but this is really quite a good fun adventure. Our intrepid inventors “Wallace” and “Gromit” have a successful business protecting people’s crops from pesky rabbits. When they are summoned by “Lady Tottingham” to deal with these rodents wrecking her pristine lawn, “Wallace” is delighted. Not only have they gone up on the world, but he also gets to try out his new suction machine that soon eradicates her problem. Their problem? Well what do they do with all these left-over bunnies? He decides to try his new mind-altering gadget on them to brainwash them into never touching garden vegetables again. Of course that was never going to go to plan, and before they know it their community is being terrorised. None of their state-of-the-art security measures, nor, windows or walls can keep out this new menace - and they are getting the blame. With the pompous adventurer and would-be suitor “Quartermaine” pointing his shotgun at just about everything, our inventive duo are going to have track down this monstrous critter before it eats everyone out of house an home. It’s an homage to all things Hammer, with a little bit of “King Kong” in their too and the attention to detail is really entertaining - not just with the characterisations and expressive faces, but with the more incidental signposts, the shop names, the newspaper headlines: they are a turnip for the books with puns and double-entendres galore peppered throughout this humorous script. It’s got gizmos that would make “007” jealous and the comedy action hits the ground running and rarely stops for breath. Aardman at their best, this, and well worth a watch on a big screen where the creatively crafted stop-motion and Julian Nott’s whimsical score all make for an enjoyable watch.

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Production companies

Who made it

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  Aardman

  GB

• 

  DreamWorks Animation

  US

Key crew

• ProducerClaire Jennings
• CastingJennifer Duffy
• Executive ProducerCecil Kramer
• ProducerDavid Sproxton
• Production DesignPhil Lewis
• CharactersNick Park
• EditorDavid McCormick
• ProducerPeter Lord
• ProducerCarla Shelley
• EditorGregory Perler
• ProducerNick Park
• EditorAngharad Owen
• Executive ProducerMichael Rose
• AnimationJo Fenton
• AnimationPhilip Beglan
• AnimationPascual Perez
• Animation SupervisorLoyd Price
• AnimationDicken Franklin
• AnimationVirpi Kettu
• AnimationSeamus Malone
• AnimationFabrice Joubert
• AnimationDan Ramsay
• AnimationAndy Spilsted
• AnimationMerlin Crossingham

Themes & keywords

What it's about, really

• northern england
• hunter
• competition
• village
• garden
• halloween
• villain
• parody
• vegetable
• yorkshire
• stop motion
• contest
• dog
• rabbit
• pest control
• giant vegetable
• claymation
• plasticine
• 3d animation
• joyous
• whimsical

Release history · US

When it landed

• Theatrical2005-10-07G

Also known as

International titles

• Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-RabbitGB
• The Curse Of The Were-RabbitUS
• 월레스와 그로밋-거대 토끼의 저주KR
• Wallace i Gromit: La Maledicció de les VerduresES
• Wallace et Gromit : Le mystère du lapin-garouFR
• Wallace und Gromit - Auf der Jagd nach dem RiesenkaninchenDE
• Wallace et Gromit, le mystère du lapin garouFR
• Wallace e Gromit - La maledizione del coniglio mannaroIT
• Something Bunny Is Going OnGB
• Le Mystère du Lapin-GarouFR
• The Curse of the Were-RabbitGB
• Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-RabbitUS
• ウォレスとグルミット 野菜畑で大ピンチ!JP
• Wallace 's Gromit: Mallachd an Fhir-rabaideGB
• Воллес і Ґроміт: Прокляття кролика-перевертняUA