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Curse of the Were-Rabbit: has anyone seen it? What do you think?

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Wordsmith · 14/10/2005 11:56

I'm with Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian on this one - I think it's truly one of the funniest films I've ever seen. Absolutely superb.

But.... we took our 5.7 year old to see it last Sunday - a die-hard Wallace and Gromit fan, has seen all the short movies and Chicken Run too - and it gave him nightmares! I was very surprised but it is a bit scary in places.

What do others think?

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Wordsmith · 14/10/2005 22:56

Has no-one seen it????

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Roobie · 14/10/2005 22:58

Going next Tuesday....looking forward to it

karmamother · 15/10/2005 18:46

Am going to see it with ds(9) tomorrow. Will let you know what I thought about it. Have heard that all the reviews are good, though.

RTKMonherBROOMSTICK · 15/10/2005 18:52

DS is there at the moment with 2 of his friends and one of the mums

Blandmum · 15/10/2005 19:03

I tried to go today with mine, but it was full! So we are goign tomorrow. It has excellent reviews from the times

roisin · 15/10/2005 19:05

Oh no! Wordsmith can you elaborate on the scariness please? Ds2 is a complete wimp when it comes to films, and is fairly easily scared. He's nearly 6.5 but still struggles a bit. He howled all the way through Madagascar, for some reason I've not yet discovered! He hasn't been terrified by anything for a while yet, but I don't really want to go back there. (He was completely traumatised by Nemo )

LadySherlockofLGJ · 15/10/2005 19:16

Oh great, DS refuses to watch Stuart Little 2 because he doesn't like the falcon.

Can't see this being a goer.

Blandmum · 16/10/2005 16:11

have just seen this.....it was *wonderful! Great fun for all the family

LIZS · 16/10/2005 16:19

We took the kids to see it earlier. ds (7 1/2) chortled away but dd (4) was scared by the Were- rabbit and the Lord. Think she found the plot too confusing and we had a Penguin short film too which, although fun, made it quite long for her to sit through. It is quite dark and eerie in parts and draws on traditional horror movies. We loved the more subtle touches but won't elaborate or it might spoil it !

Blandmum · 16/10/2005 16:23

There are lots of little jokes for the grown ups.

Mine are 8 and 5,5 and found it OK. Ds found some of the spooky bits a little scary...but just snuggled up and laughed madly when the tension dropped.

Joe Grundy in the archers is in it!

hatstand · 16/10/2005 16:40

I liked it. dd2 (3) only liked bits and was a bit freaked by the idea of a giant rabbit. would have helped if the bloody cinema had't put on 40 sodding minutes of trailers, meaning that she was pretty near the end of her patience before the thing had started. FORTY minutes is taking teh piss. dh is going to complain and ask for our money back.

hatstand · 16/10/2005 16:41

dd2 had to leave btw

WigWamBam · 16/10/2005 16:43

I shall be going to see this with dh ... but we will be leaving dd behind as (a) it might be a bit scary for her and (b) we want to sit and enjoy it without having to keep explaining the plot and the jokes to a 4 year old.

Selfish? Me? Perish the thought

jabberwocky · 16/10/2005 16:49

We went to see it last weekend and loved it. Dh has always been a huge fan of Nick Park. At 2, ds has a short attention span for movies, so he enjoyed the first half and then we had to work a bit to get him to stay for the second half. Luckily, we were at the drive-in and had lots of toys with us.

burstingbug · 16/10/2005 16:53

Shhhh, No R words please. I live on the Island where they've banned the posters for containing that word

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Wordsmith · 16/10/2005 19:59

Martianbishop, I thought it was Joe Grundy!!!

Yep the scary bits were when the were rabbit 'transformed'. DS was terrified by Snow White and still is, and it's the same sort of horror-film scariness that got to him. I think I started it though by saying "oh, so-and-so turns into a monster then!" when I realsied that was what was about to happen. At the mere mention of the M word DS shrunk into his seat whimpering.

The B-movie was an offshoot of Madagascar. DS enjoyed that too, but then he liked Madagascar.

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LIZS · 16/10/2005 20:20

Hofh we used similarly to fall foul of the certification hence why this was dd's first trip to the cinema at 4.

mancmum · 16/10/2005 20:24

we all loved it - my DS aged 5 who is normally easily scared did not bay an eye lid at any of it, my 2 year old DS laughed out loud at all the slapstick stuff and me and grand parents just loved all the clever visual gags... the SMUG fridge one just still has me weeping when I see them at some of my friends houses... how accurate!!

and the short was worht seeing on its own!! Great stuff...

tegan · 16/10/2005 20:29

dd1 is 7 and she is watching it for the first time in her room - all we can hear is her laughing.

Blandmum · 16/10/2005 20:43

SUMG fridge had me LMAO too, as did the 'may contain nuts' bit.

WigWamBam · 16/10/2005 20:44

Watching it in her room? It only came out in the cinemas this week ... that wouldn't be a naughty pirate copy would it, Tegan?

codface · 16/10/2005 20:45

grwol
norty norty
funding al quaeda

Tortington · 16/10/2005 21:22

my 12 year old went with her friends yesterday and fell asleep!

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