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Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (B-). I have never seen any of the fabled Wallace & Gromit shorts, but the critical buzz around this movie was so great that I had to check it out. In fact, I wanted to see it instead of Chicken Little over Christmas. In fact, I liked it little better than Little. As you may know, W&G is done in old-fashioned claymation, which is admittedly pretty cool. It is set somewhere in England, and it follows the adventures of a daffy, clumsy, cheese-loving inventor named Wallace and his loyal (and more sensible) dog Gromit. In this movie, W&G run a humane pest control business, protect the town's vegetable gardens by safely catching and removing all the rabbits. Their basement filling up with the cute little varmints, so Wallace decides to use his new brain-washing invention to try to turn the bunnies against vegetables and make them safe to release again. Simultaneously (coincidentally?), a mysterious beast known as the were-rabbit begins to ravage the town's vegetable gardens. Can W&G stop him before a bombastic, rifle-toting hunter does? Cute, a few funny jokes and puns, but really nothing spectacular, in my humble opinion.