I can't tell you the last time I saw a movie with something racier than a G-rating. Fortunately, the latest kids' release, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were Rabbit, offers plenty of visual jokes and puns to keep us adults amused.
The first half of the flick also kept Kortney pretty interested. You know 3-year-olds sometimes have the attention span of a flea, especially in a dark theatre. She enjoyed it for the most part but she has asked me so many questions about it. Why did he turn into a big bunny? Why didn't he want the bunnies to eat the vegetables? I think it was a hard concept for her to grasp - a were-bunny (like a werewolf). The fab duo, the inventor, Wallace and his faithful pooch, Gromit, have been keeping the Brits in stiches for years. This is their fourth feature film. I enjoyed the movie (although the oversized mouths and lips were a bit unnerving at first) and found myself laughing out loud...my only complaint would be the use of guns in the film. I did become very fond of Gromit though. He has no dialogue yet his expressions perfectly convey his thoughts.
Ok, here's the concept, Wallace and Gromit run a humane pest control agency - Anti-Pesto, their services are especially needed because the town is having a Giant Vegetable Competition. Their humane approach is leaving them with a house full of bunnies. In an effort to stem the flow of bunnies, Wallace uses his Mind-manipulation-o-matic to brainwash Thumper & Co into disliking veggies. Well, you can only imagine the havoc this causes! A gian, vegetable loving Were-Bunny is on the loose and terrorizing the local gardens. A suitor of Lady Tottington, an heiress and in need of some hair gel, hires Wallace and Gromit and becomes smitten with our erstwhile inventor. Her gun-toting shooter, I mean suitor, Victor Quartermaine, is none too pleased with this arrangement. There's a great plane-chase toward the end but the use of guns to kill the Were-Bunny was just too much for a young age group. What do you think? It seems like many of our classic kid flicks have some type of death from violence in them...Bambi, The Lion King, Madagascar, etc. At what age did you start letting your kids go to the movies?
