Top 250 Challenge: 146

Wallace & Gromit in The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (2005)
Number 211 on IMDb's Top 250

Nominated by Anonymous Ken

The First Full Length Vegitarian Horror flick. It's vege-mania in Wallace and Gromit's neighborhood, and our two enterprising chums are cashing in with their humane pest-control outfit, "Anti-Pesto." With only days to go before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition, business is booming, but Wallace & Gromit are finding out that running a "humane" pest control outfit has its drawbacks as their West Wallaby Street home fills to the brim with captive rabbits. Suddenly, a huge, mysterious, veg-ravaging "beast" begins attacking the town's sacred vegetable plots at night, and the competition hostess, Lady Tottington, commissions Anti-Pesto to catch it and save the day. Lying in wait, however, is Lady Tottington's snobby suitor, Victor Quartermaine, who'd rather shoot the beast and secure the position of local hero-not to mention Lady Tottingon's hand in marriage. With the fate of the competition in the balance, Lady Tottington is eventually forced to allow Victor to hunt down the vegetable chomping marauder. Hilarity ensues. Little does Lady Tottington know that Victor's real intent could have dire consequences for her...and our two heroes.

Trivia: The film required 2.8 tons of Plasticine in 42 colors and 1000 baby-wipes per week to wipe it off animators' fingers. All the wallpaper created for the sets are entirely hand-painted. The Latin motto of the Tottington family inscribed on the manor house translates roughly as "Manure Liberates Us All". (It was originally meant to be "Free Manure for Everyone"). During filming, Aardman managed an average of 3 seconds of usable footage per day.

Pure Aardman gold. Wallace & Gromit is just fun to watch. It is said that Aardman made Chicken Run to gage the public reception of full length claymation before making a full length movie with the studio's stars. They shouldn't have worried. Thanks Ken.