Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Erica and I spent much of the day in Northampton yesterday, visiting Alex and Charlie. We took A and C and Tom (Vicky was working) out to lunch at a pub in Moulton.

Ethan was at school and Emily was at nursery. Charlie went to fetch Emily and arrived back just after 3.00pm. As soon as Emily saw Erica and me she rushed to give us hugs and kisses.

Alex, Erica and I then went to fetch Ethan from school - a 5 minute walk from the house. We crowded into the school playground with all the other parents and the kids pouring out of class. Ethan came out and had words with another little boy, who complained to Alex. Alex told Ethan he had to say sorry and that he should be nice to the other children. Where was his coat? Ethan went back in to get his coat. Came out again, suddenly twigged that grandpa and grandma were there and rushed over to hug my knees.

We all went to see Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit at The Vue cinema in the centre of Northampton. Another of Aardman Animations masterpieces, although I?m not sure that it works so well on the big screen as on TV. Anyway, it was a wonderful pastiche of various film genres (werewolf movies, King Kong, horror movies, upper-crust English costume dramas and others); it was full of knowing jokes, witty asides, funny touches. The funniest - for me anyway - came near the end of the film when Wallace, apparently dead, is revived by the whiff of some ?Stinking Bishop? cheese; he is naked (having just reverted from were-rabbit to his ?human? form) and Lady (?call me Totty?) Tottington (Helena Bonham-Carter of course) finds a cardboard box to cover his embarrassment; Wallace holds the box over his nether regions and there, in the strategic place, is a label saying ?May contain nuts?. Childish, I know, but, hey, I was with my grandchildren. (Not that they would have understood that particular joke: Ethan is just learning to read, Emily is 3 and not yet reading; and, anyway, they?re too young to get it.)

Read the reviews. Go see it. Enjoy ?Woppit and Groppit? (Emily?s rendition of the film title).

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