Movie: Wallace & Gromit, Curse of the Were-Rabbit

So my penance for going to kill-kill-kill movies is to go again later, and take my mother to see Wallace & Gromit. I can't believe somehow she has missed this whole franchise. I dunno, there was something about this one that is...too much somehow, when put up against A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers or A Close Shave. In this movie, W&G run a successful venture as Anti-Pesto Humane Pest Control to keep rabbits from destroying the gardens of citizens all bent on winning the Golden Carrot Award at the largest-vegetable competition (sounds familiar for Alaska), the 'humane' part being that they bring all the bunnies home to live with them. Though the voice talents of Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes were incredibly funny, and there are just silly laughs and all the requisite near-misses and new inventions throughout, there was a sense to me that the world created in this movie has gotten just a little too big and complex and jaded for these characters now. Still, let's face it: in any universe, Gromit rocks.