Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[victoria]

WILHELM SCREAM: When the Were-Rabbit during the climax knocks over a villager as it starts carrying Lady Tottington and knocks down the vegetable stand.

[tom]

During the character design phase, the look of Lady Tottington changed as many as 40 times.

[michele]

Peter Sallis' voice was pitch-shifted for the voice of Hutch the Rabbit.

[tammy]

The first Wallace & Gromit film with a supernatural theme. All of the others are science-fictional, or are about crime.

[francisco]

Peter Sallis, the voice of Wallace, also appears in the movie The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) 44 years prior.

[albert]

The Vicar's name is never mentioned throughout the film. We only find out that it is Reverend Clement Hedges on the end credits.

[bessie]

Lady Tottington was named after the suburb of Bury, Greater Manchester, near where Nick Park grew up. People who grew up in Tottington are called Tottingtonians and the abbreviation of Tottington is Totty. Hence Lady Tottington being referred to as Totty.

[brent]

Lady Campanula Tottington is named after Nick Park's favorite flowers (campanula).

[brent]

The climax sequence at Tottington Hall features a spoof of King Kong (1933), of which the reboot by Peter Jackson was released the same year as this film. The ending saw the Were-Rabbit hit his chest, mimicKing Kong, and carried Lady Tottington up the hall in the same manner as Kong with Anne Darrow. The sequence even featured it clutching a flag pole, akin to Kong atop the Empire State Building.

[nora]

The Were-Rabbit had an internal mechanism that allowed the animators to move the model with minimal touching of the fur covering, thus avoiding the tell-tale impressions left by their fingers.

[ivan]

Hutch only speaks phrases spoken by Wallace previously in the movie and preceding short films.

[mathew]

Took five years to make. Production started not long after the release of Chicken Run (2000), Aardman Studio's previous stop-motion film that got distributed by DreamWorks.

[amber]

There is a clever Harry Potter reference in the opening credits (picture of Gromit graduating from Dogwarts University;(nod to Hogwarts) )

[aaron]

Aardman Animation had originally signed a multi-picture deal with DreamWorks to fund and release their films as their previous effort, Chicken Run (2000), had been a huge box-office and critical success. However whilst Curse of the Were-Rabbit did very well at the UK box office and was successful in Europe and many overseas markets, DreamWorks felt it under-performed when released in the U.S. and partly blamed it on the fact that Aardman, and Nick Park in particular, refused point blank to make any compromises for U.S. audiences (such as cast a major Hollywood name in the voice cast like he did in Chicken Run). Park on the other hand blatantly refused to make any wholesale changes to the Wallace & Gromit formula and its particularly British quirky sense of humor. He reasoned that if the beloved short films were good enough to win academy awards then there was no reason to meddle with what audiences loved about them.Whilst the film was certainly not a flop on its U.S. release, DreamWorks felt it was not the blockbuster they were expecting at the American box office and decided to terminate early the multi-picture deal with Aardman. Aardman's next theatrical release, The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) was released through Sony Pictures and their films since then have been released through French distributor StudioCanal in Europe (and independent distributors worldwide) who, unlike the Hollywood majors, have been happy to let Aardman make their films without interference.

[linda]

The crew used 44 pounds of glue every month to assist in sticking down the sets.

[victoria]

Shortly after this film was released, the Aardman warehouse in Bristol, England burned to the ground, destroying hundreds of plasticine characters and sets, virtually the entire history of the company. Nick Park was quoted as saying, "Even though it is a precious and nostalgic collection and valuable to the company, in light of other tragedies, today isn't a big deal."

[tammy]

The code for Gromit's High-Security greenhouse is "8425", which can spell "Halt" on a telephone. Note: later on the "8" is not punched.

[ava]

The last film from DreamWorks Animation film to be made by DreamWorks Pictures as a standalone production before DreamWorks Pictures was purchased by Paramount Pictures in December 2005.