Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal Gromit run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods, which turns 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.

One of the most warmly received animated films of its era, Were-Rabbit was praised almost without dissent for its handcrafted stop-motion artistry, dense visual gag-work, and affectionate send-up of Hammer horror conventions. Critics consistently singled out the quintessentially English sensibility — the marrows, the class comedy, the punning — as inseparable from what makes it work, with Gromit's wordless expressiveness drawing particular admiration. The reviews are strikingly uniform in enthusiasm, making this a rare case where critical consensus and popular affection align almost perfectly.