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[IMDb] [netflix]

The first Wallace & Gromit in ten years finds the pair running a humane pest control business (called “Anti-Pesto”). Lady Campanula Tottington (Helena Bonham Carter) has a rabbit problem that’s out of control and calls Anti-pesto for help but Lady Tottington’s (or “Totty”) suitor, Victor Quartermaine (Ralph Fiennes), just wants to shoot them all. Will our heros be able to save the annual giant vegetable growing contest?

The animation is grade-A, tip top, and there are loads of sight gags (like a naked Wallace in a cardboard box labeled “contains nuts”). My favorite sequence is the launch sequence at the beginning which is a fantastic homage to Thunderbirds. The vicar’s voice sounded very familiar and checking the credits, it turned out to be Nicolas Smith who plays Mr. Rumbold on that Are You Being Served dreck, but he was pretty good anyway. The movie suffered only in that W&G is pretty hard to stretch to a full length movie from the more accustomed shorts.

; would own

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