Fresh off its sweep of the 33rd annual Annie Awards, DreamWorks and Aardman Animations’ clay-animated Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit arrives on home video today. The first feature outing for Nick Park’s plasticine duo should harvest a bumper crop of cash on disc, especially with the Oscars coming up in a couple of weeks.
Directed by Nick Park and Steve Box, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit finds our heroes the proprietors of Anti-Pesto, a humane pest control company currently employed in ridding gardens of hungry bunnies as the town’s annual vegetable growing contest nears. During a service call, Wallace falls for Lady Tottington (Helena Bonham Carter) and makes an enemy of Victor Quartermain (Ralph Fiennes), a huntsman and social climber who’s after a chunk of the Tottington fortune. More trouble arises when the town is terrorized by a mysterious beast that is gobbling up every bit of produce, even those cleverly guarded by Anti-Pesto devices.
Bonus features include commentary by Park and Box, deleted scenes, production stills making-of documentaries and behind-the-scenes featurettes titled A Day in the Life at Aardman and How to Build a Bunny. Fans also get Box’s award-winning short film, Stage Fright, three new Wallace & Gromit Crackling Contraptions shorties and interactive activities such as Anti-Pesto SWAT Team and Victor Quartermaine’s Guide to Cool. Fans can pick the disc up for $29.99 or less.
If the Were-Rabbit isn’t quite scary enough for you, you may want to pick up Doom, Universal Pictures’ big-screen adaptation of the hit video game. The film stars Karl Urban, Rosamund Pike and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as soldiers battling demonic forces and mutant creatures in a research facility on Mars. The unrated, extended version includes a look at the famous ‘First-Person Shooter’ with visual effects supervisor Jon Farhat, behind-the-scenes featurettes, a Doom 3 Xbox demo and a tour of the game’s locations, weapons, creatures and strategies. There’s also a documentary titled Doom Nation, which explores the worldwide phenomenon of the Doom franchise. The carries a suggested retail price of $29.98.
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