Chicken Run: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit

Aardman Animations
Aardman animations are very popular known for creating animations made from clay. Some examples of their work are ‘Chicken Run’ which was released in June 2000 and was their first whole length film. Chicken Run is about a middle aged couple who own a farm full of chickens, the wife then reads this magazine which shows an invention which could increase profits and this was the chicken pie machine. Ginger, the main girl chicken witnesses this and tries to warn her other chicken friends. They don’t listen to her even when she tries to persuade them that they can all escape. A male rooster then comes in to the farm from a circus; he got there by being shot out of a cannonball. It appeared to ginger and some of the other chickens
The plot is based on there being an upcoming vegetable contest in the town where the winner gets awarded the “golden carrot award”. All the contestants are very protective and defensive when it comes towards looking after their vegetables until the competition. Wallace and Gromit then think of an idea where they can make money running a pest control and vegetable security business. They both came up with name “Anti-Pesto”. There are then two problems they come across; one that they don’t enough space to store the captured rabbits, the other is Wallace’s increasing weight. Wallace then thinks of an idea where he cold brainwash the rabbits into not harming anyone’s vegetables but still run free. They decided to use one of their old inventions to do this; the invention is the “Mind Manipulation –O- Matic Machine”. The pair then tries out the invention until a wrong switch gets kicked and a rabbit gets sucked up and attached to Wallace’s head, this incident then leaves the rabbit less intelligent, who is not interested in vegetables anymore. The town then comes across the “Were-Rabbit” who is a large rabbit-like creature. The people in the town then start to fret and worry about this situation; they then try to think about how to solve it. Meanwhile Wallace and Gromit have a feeling that (hutch) the rabbit they sucked up is the town monster, until the “Were-Rabbit” starts talking and acting like Wallace. Gromit then starts to think that the creature is actually Wallace, but the conclusion is actually that hutch has Wallace’s complete personality. Victor the villain then plans to shoot the creature with a golden bullet. Lady Tottington then agrees to protect Wallace from being shot by victor once she finds out the town monster is really him. After there being a fight between Victor and Wallace, they both fall and become