Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

For other Wallace and Gromit films, see Wallace and Gromit.

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit in 104 minutes release is a 2005 film produced by DreamWorks Animation and Aardman and distributed by Universal Pictures. It's all about Wallace, a good-natured eccentric cheese-loving British inventor, and Gromit, his faithful dog whose humane anti-pest business is employed to capture a giant rabbit which is wreaking havoc in their village.

Directed by Nick Park and Steve Box. Written by Bob Baker, Steve Box, Mark Burton and Nick Park.

Something wicked this way hops.(taglines)

Wallace

• [first lines] Ho-ho! Cracking job, Gromit! Hang in there, ol' chum!
• [to Gromit] Er, what's up, dog?
• It's a veritable...vegetable...paradise.
• Just a bit of harmless brain alteration, that's all.
• Lovely food, for rabbits, that is.
• Still got me on the diet, eh, Gromit? Watching me shape. Ha Ha, there's a good dog.
• I'm just crackers about cheese.
• [at the Academy Awards of his and Gromit's movie, presented by Reese Witherspoon] Ooh! I do like a bit of Gorgonzola.
• Veg bad. Veg bad. Veg bad. Say no to carrots, cabbage, and cauliflower. Aw c'mon rad, what you waiting for. Turn on the weight for. Full suction.

Lady Campanula Tottington

• Please, Wallace, call me "Totty".
• Run, rabbit, run!
• [Victor: No one beats Victor Quartermaine!] Is that so? [knocks him out with a giant carrot] Consider yourself dumped.

Lord Victor Quartermaine

• There's No nonsense with Victor Quartermaine. What you see is what you get. [his toupee is sucked into a rabbit hole]
• How do you intended to finish these vermin off? Crush them? [kicks the BunnyVac 6000] Liquidize them?
• I Want. Toupee, please.
• Toupee, you idiot! My hair is in your machine!
• Out of my way, fool.
• [after firing a shot to get the crowd's attention] A were-rabbit? Oh come, come now. I do believe the Vicar's been at the communion wine again.
• C'mon. Queensberry rules. Put 'em up, you little pipsqueak. Hahahaha, you're shaking. Don't tell me you're a scaredy-cat as well as a scoundrel. And don't think acting like a big girl's blouse will get you out of it. There's no mercy with Victor Quartermaine.
• That's right, my lovely. You can say goodbye to your fluffy lover boy.
• Your loyalty is moving. Sadly, you won't be.
• Get your hairy mitts off my future wife you big brute.
• Oh, no. You commissioned me to rid you of Pesto, and that's just what I intend to do.
• [shoves a pitchfork in Lady Tottington's hair] Hmmmm, I rather like your hair pinned back.
• You can hop, but you can't hide, Pesto!
• Eat carrot, bunny boy.
• No one beats Victor Quartermaine. [Lady Tottington: Is that so? Consider yourself dumped.]

PC Mackintosh

• [the Were-Rabbit is teetering on the roof of Tottington Hall, above a mob] Stand back! There may be a large rabbit dropping!
• Hey! Give over!
• Look.
• This flipping vegetable competition causes nothing but trouble every year.
• If you ask me, you know, I tell ya.
• If you ask me, this was arson. Aye, somebody "arson" around.

Hutch the Rabbit

• Cheeeeeeese!
• Ooh, I do like a bit of gorgonzola.
• Ah, the bounce has gone from his bungee.
• Hey, Presto! Rabbit rehabilitation!
• Cheddar.
• I'm inventing, mostly.
• Charming. I'm Wallace.
• Geronimo!
• Your Lordship.
• Good night, Gromit.
• Cracking toast, Gromit.
• I'm just crackers about cheese.
• Monterey Jack! Wow!
• Smashing Wensleydale.
• Job well done, lad.
• Lovely food. For rabbits, that is.
• Cheese, Gromit!
• Heehee! Lovely cheese, Gromit!
• Don't forget the crackers.
• [last line] CHEEEEEEEEESE!!

Reverend Clement Hedges

• [praying] Protect and nourish the frail and the weak, O Lord. Let them grow big and strong under Thy loving care. In fact, let them grow bigger and stronger than anyone else's, so that the first prize might be mine. Aaaaaaa-men.
• [holding up a pair of cucumbers like a cross] MERRRRCYYYYYYYYYY!!
• This was no man, does a man have teeth the size of axe blades? Or ears like terrible tombstones? By tampering with nature, forcing vegetables to swell far beyond their natural size, we have brought a terrible judgement upon ourselves.
• And for our sins, a hideous creature has been sent to punish us all! Repent! Repent! Lest you, too, taste the wrath of...THE WERE-RABBIT!!
• My poor sensitive child, allow us all to share in your moment of sorrow. YEEEEEEEEAAAAAHHH!!! [fireworks begin to go off and music plays] ON WITH THE SHOW!
• [witnessing Victor Quartermaine caught on a weather-vane by his trousers, showing his rear end to all below] Beware the moon!
• Destroy! Drive out the monstrosity!

Mr. Growbag

• I never saw such cauliflower carnage. Worse than the Great Slug Blight of '32. When there were slugs the size of pigs.
• [On the history of the Giant Vegetable Competition] That's right. Not even the Great Duck Plague of '53 stopped it.

Dialogue

Lady Tottington: [over the phone] I have the most terrible rabbit problem. The competition is only days away. You simply have to do something.

Wallace: Certainly, M'am [to Gromit] I think we're about to go up in the world, lad. [back to the phone] Just stay right where you are, Your Ladyship, and we'll be there in an- [hits the control panel and gets dragged up through the ceiling] AHHHHHHHH!!

Lady Tottington: In an hour? I can't wait an hour. I have a major infestation. Oh, hello? Hello?

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Lady Tottington: Victor, hadn't we agreed? No more thoughtless killing.

Victor: Quite right, my dear. So I've thought this through very carefully. It's off to bunny heaven for you, big-ears.

Lady Tottington: Victor, no!

[But the rabbit gets sucked in before it gets shot]

Victor: What the?

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[Quartermaine's hairpiece has been sucked up into the Bun-Vac 6000.]

Lord Victor Quartermaine: I want... toupeé, please.

Wallace: Oh, Grand. We take check or cash.

Victor: TOUPEÉ, you idiot! My hair is in in your machine!

Wallace: Oh, no, it's only rabbits in there. The hare, I think you'll find, is a much larger mammal.

Victor: Oh, out of my way, you! [retrieves his toupeé; to Lady Tottington] I'm sorry, my dear. [the toupeé is actually a black bunny] But I refuse to suffer any more humiliation at the hands of these blundering nitwits. I therefore bid you good day.

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Reverend Clement Hedges: Hello? Is anybody there? [the Were-Rabbit lets out an enormous belch] Mrs. Mulch?

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Mr. Growbag: I never saw such cauliflower carnage. Worse than the Great Slug Blight of '32. When there were slugs the size of pigs.

Mrs. Mulch: Growbag's right! The slugs are back!

PC Macintosh: Look, this flippin' vegetable competition causes nothing but trouble every year.

Man 1: Here we go.

Macintosh: If you ask me-

Man 2: Get on with you!

Macintosh: No, I'll tell ya. If you ask me, this was arson.

[The townspeople gasp]

Man 3: Arson?

Macintosh: Aye. Someone arsin' around. That's right. One of you lot. A man.

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Victor: I know your little secret, Pesto! I know exactly what's going on.

Wallace: Your Lordship?

Victor: Oh, yes. You think you can pilfer my filly, don't you? You think you can con an innocent woman out of her fortune?

Wallace: Who, me?

Victor: Well, I got here first! I've spent a lot of time reeling in that fluffy-headed bunny-lover, and I'm not about to let some puddle-headed peasant poach her from me! Comprendez?!

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Reverend Clement Hedges: The beast lurks within all of us, my child. [thunderclap] The side of us that emerges at night as the moon rises into the sky! The side that savagely rips the leaves off any innocent cabbage.

Victor: Oh, spare me the sermon, Vicar. Just tell me how I kill him. I mean it.

Reverend Clement Hedges: To kill such a creature would require nerves of steel, and...a bullet. [thunderclap]

Victor: A bullet? [thunderclap]

Reverend Clement Hedges : A bullet. [thunderclap]

Victor: A bull-? [thunderclap] [closes window] What KIND of bullet?

Reverend Clement Hedges: A bullet of pure gold.

Victor: Gold?

Reverend Clement Hedges: Yes, 24 'karot'. [giggles]

Victor: Oh. Get out of my way. Silly old fool.

Reverend Clement Hedges: [as Victor walks out the door] Beware! BEWARE THE BEAST WITHIN!!!

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Wallace: Oh, it's hopeless! I'll never fix this flippin' machine. Me mind's just a rabbit-y mush. Oh, Gromit! I don't wanna be a giant rabbit! [sobbing]

Hutch the Rabbit: Aww, the bounce is gone from his bungee.

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Reverend Clement Hedges: Ah, Mr. Growbag. I have a hunch this will be a night to remember.

Mr Growbag: I just have a hunch.

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Civilian 1: Please, sir. Kiss my baby,

Victor: Another time, perhaps.

Civilian 2: Kiss my potato,

Victor: Not now.

Mr. Growbag: Kiss my artichoke.

Victor: Look, just-

Lady Tottington: Victor.

Victor: Campanula.

Lady Tottington: Victor, I have to know. Did it suffer?

Victor: Of course not, my dear. Not yet, anyway.

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Victor: [whispering] Listen, I don't want to cause any panic, but the beast isn't actually dead yet.

Mactinosh: [speaking through megaphone] THE BEAST ISN'T ACTUALLY DEAD YET?! [everyone becomes silent] Oops.

[Everybody panics]

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Victor: No one beats Victor Quartermaine.

Lady Tottington: Is that so? [knocks him with a giant carrot] Consider yourself dumped.

Teaser Trailer

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Theatrical Trailer (Mark Elliot Version)

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Taglines

• Something wicked this way hops.
• Something bunny is going on.
• [near Wallace] “Master”, [near Gromit] “Mind”
• Cracking cheese, Gromit!

Cast

• Peter Sallis — Wallace / Hutch
• Helena Bonham Carter — Lady Campanula Tottington
• Ralph Fiennes — Lord Victor Quartermaine
• Peter Kay — PC McIntosh
• Nicholas Smith — Reverend Clement Hedges
• Edward Kelsey - Mr. Growbag

External links

• Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit quotes at the Internet Movie Database
• The official Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit site