Were-Review No Spoilers:

Stop whining all the time about how you are spoiled and can`t enjoy a movie unless you watch it with a audience of Hollywood movie lovers that are all respectful, no talking during the film, clap during the credits and then take your ticket out in the lobby and get it punched so you don`t have to pay for parking. said my daughter and then she was immediately fearful that I would quote her on the blog yet again. No daddy, don`t quote me. I`ll be good! I promise. Too late.

I went to see Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit today. I was the first one in the line when the Ciniplex opened at 10:45 AM. It would have been nice to see it with an audience but no Gods, not like the Madagascar audience I got a couple of months back at my local mall. If I have to make the choice of laughing by myself or wanting to kill the people next to me because they are rude talking during my movie then I will laugh by myself thank you all very much.

And did I like Wallace and Gromit? Do I think it is going to kill at the box office? Do I agree with Jerry Beck that it is the best-animated film so far this year? Well yes. It is a wholly remarkable film. It had that Nick Park feel of his earlier shorts.

It is the same pleasant world of his Oscar winner earlier short films. Wallace is wholly Wallace and Gromit is the lovable super intelligent dog we all love so much. The animation is the stop motion hand craft of the earlier Aardman films that warms my heart. As much as I loved Chicken Run there was something a little too slick about its animation for my taste.

Helena Bonham Carter voices a lovely goofball romantic lead who is a strong nutty foil for the bumbling Wallace. Ralph Fiennes plays an okay but one dimensional villain that isn`t quite up to the robo-dog of The Wrong Trousers but that is comparing apples to apples. Comparing Wallace and Gromit to other animations still leaves Nick Park and Steve Box way in the lead.

So do I think that Were-Rabbit is a prefect movie, flawless, without fault of any kind? No. There are one or two very small things and the one that really bothers me the most is an uncomfortable straying from the innocent world view of the earlier films for 2 cheap sexual throw away sight gags one with melons and the other with a nuts sign. But that is small. I can live with that. Most people will not know the boys well enough to even see this as being out of character.

Even if you can`t see this movie at a screening with validated parking you need to go out and see it today. Okay, tomorrow at the latest. Oh, and DreamWorks, you are going to need to do at least one more screening for the ASIFA voting membership and after that the Academy is going to have to see it.  ¶ 7:11 PM