It’s an obligation for me to watch this 2005 movie at least one time a year, preferably during the spooky season, as it’s one of the finest features from Nick Park and his Aardman Animations.
Co-produced with Dreamworks, it reprises the inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit as the main characters and, as usual, it features them in a bizarre business enterprise: they’re pest controllers in a small countryside town that lives and breathes around an annual Giant Vegetable competition.
Business takes a turn when they receive a call from the wealthy and eccentric Lady Campanula Tottington from Tottington Hall, who has a veritable infestation of rabbits and wishes for someone to deal with them “humanely”. As it turns out, Wallace and Gromit’s method is a little too “humane”: after capturing the rabbits, they keep them in their house, feeding them at their expense. But Wallace has a stroke of genius: what if he can build a machine to channel the lunar power and brainwash the rabbits into not eating vegetables? It’s a plan that might work. And it might work a little too well for everyone’s good.
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