Synopsis
Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal, Gromit, investigate a mystery in Nick Park's animated adventure, in which the lovable inventor and his intrepid pup run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods that turn their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.
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Cast
- Peter SallisWallace / Hutch (voice)
- Ralph FiennesVictor Quartermaine (voice)
- Helena Bonham CarterLady Campanula Tottington (voice)
- Peter KayPC Mackintosh (voice)
- Nicholas SmithReverend Clement Hedges (voice)
- Liz SmithMrs. Mulch (voice)
- John ThomsonMr. Windfall (voice)
- Mark GatissMiss Blight (voice)
- Vincent EbrahimMr. Caliche (voice)
- Geraldine McEwanMiss Thripp (voice)
Recommendations
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Time
The whole rollicking adventure zips along a mile a minute. - 90
The New York Times
The animation is a marvel - all the more so because the most demanding sequences seem almost casually tossed off. The world of Wallace and Gromit is one of the few genuinely eccentric places left in the movies, a place where lumpy, doughy characters achieve a peculiar dignity in spite of their grotesque features and the ridiculousness of their circumstances. - 90
Los Angeles Times
Most of all, Wallace & Gromit retains the clever, one-of-a-kind sensibility that made its shorter predecessors so delightful. With every studio comedy looking for a formula for success, it's refreshing to find a heroically whimsical film that succeeds by following no formula known to dog or man. - 88
New York Post
If animated dogs were eligible for acting awards, the Oscar would go to Gromit. - 80
Variety
Park and co-helmer Steve Box stay faithful to the cozy core ingredients that made the clay duo's kudo-reaping shorts and Park's previous pic, "Chicken Run," so well loved. "Curse" delivers a wholesome morsel, happily not too cheesy, that families will nibble on as a treat. - 80
Village Voice
This latest and biggest installment is a whimsical success of a very high order: The pace never lags, the invention is incessant, and it makes you want to have a bite of cheese afterward. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
The movie rolls merrily along with slapstick action and whimsical characters. - 80
The A.V. Club
The humor edges against absurdism, but stays self-aware and witty, with that mild-mannered optimism presiding.
