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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The end credits have a bunch of bunnies floating around weightlessly. A brief gag occurs when the 'No animals were harmed in the making of this movie' disclaimer pops up. One of the rabbits hits its head on the disclaimer and falls back down in a slapstick way.
close your eyes/look away after the scene where Wallace puts up a picture of lady Tottington on the wall and when Gromit sets off the sprinklers in miss tottintons garden
Victor Quartermaine is an adult bully who gets physically aggressive. One notable scene has him corner Wallace and attempt to coerce him into a fisticuffs duel, while Phillip keeps Gromit confined in the car to prevent him from helping. It doesn't go any further due to Wallace transforming.
A rabbit is held by the neck but doesn’t seem to be uncomfortable or hurt in any way. Another rabbit is held and seems to be chocking but it turns out to burp
Garden gnomes used as a security system watch people walk by, people are also watched by the wererabbit. Wallace also puts up pictures of all his previous clients with clay eyes on top
The rabbits that Wallace and from it capture from stealing vegetables are kept in an underground shelter and called “inmates” in a joking way. Gromit is later locked in a cage by the villain
It's made clear that Quartermaine is only interested in Lady Tottington for her money and the idea of her being a 'prize'. He disregards her opinions and gets somewhat violent with her during the climax. While it's still presented in a child-friendly way, worth considering.
Gromit is sort of like a son to Wallace, who raised him, and he is usually the butt of the slapstick humor or not taken seriously when trying to communicate
While no on-screen animal death occurs, the plot starts out with Wallace and Gromit running a humane no-kill pest control service, specifically trying to deal with the rabbit population before a big vegetable festival. Their rival, Victor Quartermaine, wants to use more lethal methods via hunting. When the Were-Rabbit strikes, people heavily discuss killing it. Later in the movie, we see visuals celebrating the apparent 'death' of the were-rabbit, such as a shooting gallery themed around rabbit targets. So it's a theme, but it's pretty mild. The worst it gets on-screen are gags that allude to animal violence but turn out to be something else.
Jokingly referenced in the form of wordplay. The climax features two sentient dogs, Gromit and Phillip, stealing two plane vehicles from a kiddie ride and chasing each other with them. At one point, one gets onto the other's vehicle and they start wrestling in a human-like way. Appropriately, the ride they stole the planes from is called 'Dog Fight,' which is a pun based on the term for plane-to-plane fighting. Nothing about this sequence evokes the crime of dog fighting itself.
Gromit is a dog who largely acts in a human-like way, and while he never speaks the animators put a lot of effort into conveying his emotions through body language and facial expressions. He does get put through some emotional scenes, like his being unable to help Wallace due to being trapped.
While Wallace and Gromit's pest control service is humane, Victor Quartermaine wants to hunt the rabbits despite Lady Tottington's wishes. We don't see any on-screen animal death, and the worst it gets is visuals alluding to hunting or hurting rabbits but are not graphic, some of which are bait-and-switches. Rabbits are, however, exposed to experimental mind-altering tech to prevent them from eating vegetables, with it malfunctioning and one particular rabbit becoming frightened, later becoming a human-rabbit creature (he is not visibly distressed by the transformation once it's fully revealed in the third act). The Were-Rabbit himself is ultimately revealed to be a transformed human, and despite his only eating vegetables, he is still hunted. This is portrayed as a humorous homage to Hammer Horror and werewolf tropes in general. The Were-Rabbit survives to the end, though there is a fakeout during the penultimate scene.
A female character gets grabbed by the Were-Rabbit and carried up a building as a homage to King Kong. Shortly after, the same character is humorously restrained by the villain pinning her down through the hair with a pitchfork ("Hmmmm... I rather like your hair pinned back."). An earlier scene shows Wallace being prevented from leaving by a character lodging an ax near him, which catches him by the clothes in a cartoony way. This scene also shows Gromit trying to leave the van to help him, but a different character actively pushes the door closed. Gromit also gets briefly locked inside a cage before the climax.
Yes, but it's pretty mild and kid-friendly. We get two on-screen Were-Rabbit transformations, and they're more on the cartoony side than anything gory. They still have horror cinematography, though, so it might frighten children or more easily spooked viewers.
No, however, parallels are drawn between vegetables and children. Various vegetables are eaten by the Were-Rabbit. Mrs. Munch refers to her giant pumpkin as “my baby” and even puts it in a stroller at one point. When Gromit goes into Wallace’s room upon it being implied Wallace could be the Were-Rabbit, Gromit finds various half-eaten vegetables on Wallace’s bed. When trying to distract the Were-Rabbit, Gromit accidentally squashed a giant zucchini. The zucchini’s innards get all over Gromit’s hands and other areas of his body. He starts to get a sad look on his face until moving on and continuing to stop the Were-Rabbit
Rabbit plushie prizes at a game booth get destroyed, but no kids react to it. While not the same, as it does not involve children or toys, a subplot is Gromit raising a giant marrow for the vegetable festival. The third act had Gromit reluctantly use it as bait for the Were-Rabbit, where it ultimately gets squashed. There's a brief moment where he looks at the plant innards splattered on his hands in sadness.
Though there aren’t any jump scares, some scenes are meant to make you jump. For example, a broken carrot looking sign mauled by the Were-Rabbit falls suddenly and unexpectedly on the front of Wallace’s car
A few humorous burps, plus a scene where Quartermaine shouts in Wallace's face. We can see spittle coming from his mouth and landing on Wallace's face.
There is a machine that goes on one's head in which electricity is used to make it work but there's also shocking going on. Is not traditional electro-therapy and isn't presented as serious.
Not canonically autistic but Wallace, who is autistic coded, often misses social cues or misinterprets what’s said and the villain gets mad and mocks him for it
A few characters show fear at various points, but the one that could maybe count as an anxiety attack is a scene where Wallace breaks down over being unable to fix the Mind Manipulation-O-Matic late into the movie.
Yes, the title card has flashing lightning and there is a thunderstorm after we see who the were rabbit is and they transform and when the villain goes to see the vicar and when Wallace and tottington take a picture together at the end
The villain is antisemetic coded in appearance but many of the non-villains look similar. The villains dog also flys a replica WW2 bomber with an iron cross (Nazi symbol) on it
Not 'man in a dress', but there is a gag late into the movie where it's revealed Phillip, Quartermaine's mean and scary-looking dog, owns a flowery coin purse. While it's not the main focus of the scene's humor, Gromit gives him a look that makes Phillip embarrassed when he notices.
There's a visual gag early into the movie where Wallace has gained enough weight so that he cannot fit through a trap door. Gromit presses another button to release a mallet that pushes Wallace through the hole in a slapstick way. Shortly after, it's revealed Gromit put Wallace on a vegetable-heavy diet to encourage him to lose weight, which is a plot point throughout the movie.
Yes, but it's more cartoony kid-friendly stuff. Quartermaine gets hung from a weathervane by his pants, exposing his bare rear ("Beware the moon!"). Wallace spends part of the ending nude, but nothing below the waist is shown. He covers his shame with a box humorously labeled "may contain nuts."
Uh, sorta, but not really. The Were-Rabbit shows romantic interest in a human woman during the climax. However, by this point, he is revealed to be a transformed human, which makes it not bestiality, at least not in the traditional sense. He does, however, express attraction toward a female rabbit costume.
A plane crashes, causing a huge explosion. Note that the plane that crashes isn’t full scale. The plane in particular is a miniature one from a kiddie ride. No one appears to be hurt by the explosion