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Full Playlist: DESCRIPTION Episode 1: Fright of the Bumblebees Wallace has opened a new business, 'From Bee to You. Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Collection is a collection of the entirety of the hit Claymation series Wallace & Gromit. The series follows the antics of the strange inventor Wallace as he makes strange machines, and finds himself in repeated trouble. Luckily, his faithful and very intelligent dog is able to protect him from certain doom.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | |
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Directed by | Nick Park Steve Box |
Produced by | Nick Park Claire Jennings Peter Lord Carla Shelley David Sproxton |
Screenplay by | Steve Box Nick Park Bob Baker Mark Burton |
Based on | Wallace and Gromit by Nick Park |
Starring | Peter Sallis Ralph Fiennes Helena Bonham Carter |
Music by | Julian Nott |
Cinematography | David Alex Riddett Tristan Oliver |
Edited by | David McCormick Gregory Perler |
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Distributed by | DreamWorks Pictures1(United States) United International Pictures(United Kingdom)[3] |
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85 minutes[3] | |
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Language | English |
Budget | $30 million |
Box office | $192.6 million |
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a 2005 stop-motion animatedcomedy film produced by Aardman Animations[1][2] in partnership with DreamWorks Animation. United International Pictures distributed the film in the United Kingdom, and it was the last DreamWorks Animation film to be distributed by DreamWorks Pictures in the United States.1 It was directed by Nick Park and Steve Box as the second feature-length film by Aardman after Chicken Run (2000). The movie was released in Sydney, Australia on 4 September 2005, before being released in cinemas early in the United States of America on 7 October 2005, and in British cinemas in the United Kingdom a week later on 14 October 2005.
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is part of the Wallace and Gromit series, created by Nick Park. The film follows good-natured eccentric cheese-loving inventor Wallace and Gromit, his intelligent mute dog in their latest venture as pest control agents, as they come to the rescue of a village plagued by rabbits before an annual vegetable competition.
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The film features an expanded cast of characters relative to the previous Wallace and Gromit shorts, with a voice cast including Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes. It was a critical and commercial success, and won a number of film awards including the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, making it the second film from DreamWorks Animation to win (after Shrek), as well as both the second non-American animated film and second non computer-animated film to have received this achievement (after Spirited Away).
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Plot[edit]
Tottington Hall's annual giant vegetable competition is approaching with the coveted Golden Carrot as its prize. Wallace and Gromit provide a humane pest control business, 'Anti-Pesto', protecting the townspeople's vegetables. One evening after capturing rabbits found in Lady Tottington's garden, Wallace devises a plan to turn them against vegetables by using his latest invention, the Mind Manipulation-O-Matic to brainwash them. Suddenly, the machine malfunctions and one rabbit gets stuck to Wallace's head causing their minds to fuse before Gromit cuts the power; however, the transfer appears to have worked, as the rabbit shows no interest in vegetables. They name the rabbit Hutch and place him in a cage.
That night, a giant rabbit devours many of the town's vegetables. Wallace suspects that Hutch may be the were-rabbit and locks him in a high-security cage. At a town meeting, the hunter Lord Victor Quartermaine offers to shoot the were-rabbit, but Lady Tottington persuades the townsfolk to continue with Anti-Pesto's services. Victor, who seeks to woo Lady Tottington, corners Wallace in the forest, then Wallace transforms into the Were-Rabbit under the light of the full moon and bounds away. Gromit lures Wallace home to protect him. Victor obtains three '24-carrot' gold bullets from the town reverend to use against Wallace.
On the day of the vegetable competition, Gromit convinces Wallace that he is indeed the Were-Rabbit, and that he must fix the Mind-o-Matic to undo the curse. Lady Tottington, who has come to like Wallace, visits and tells him about Victor's plan. As the moon rises, Wallace begins to transform, he shuts the door and begs Gromit to hide him. Victor arrives and attempts to shoot Wallace with the golden bullets. Gromit creates a distraction to allow Wallace, as the Were-Rabbit, to escape; the hunter gives chase to the competition. Gromit begins working with Hutch, who has developed Wallace-like traits including his appetite for cheese, and plans to use his giant marrow as bait to lure Wallace to safety.
Wallace, as the were-rabbit, creates chaos at the fair. Victor grabs the Golden Carrot trophy to use as ammunition. Wallace carries Lady Tottington atop Tottington Hall, where she discovers Wallace's connection to the were-rabbit. Victor gives chase, revealing that he only wants to impress Lady Tottington for her money. When Gromit arrives, Victor's dog Philip engages him in a dogfight in aeroplanes taken from a fairground attraction. Gromit sends Philip's plane to the ground, then steers his plane into Victor's line of fire as Victor fires at Wallace, causing the bullet to hit the plane instead, much to Victor's outrage. When the plane starts to stop working from the bullet shot, Wallace jumps, grabs Gromit and sacrifices himself to cushion their fall into a cheese tent.
Victor gloats about his victory, but Lady Tottington hits him with her giant carrot and he falls into the tent too. In order to protect Wallace from an angry mob, Gromit quickly disguises Victor as the were-rabbit and the mob of townspeople chase him away. Wallace transforms back to his human self and appears dead, but Gromit uses some Stinking Bishop cheese to bring him around. Lady Tottington awards Gromit the Golden Carrot and converts the grounds of Tottington Hall into a habitat for Hutch and the other rabbits.
Cast[edit]
- Peter Sallis as Wallace, an eccentric, absent-minded and accident-prone inventor with a great fondness for cheese, who runs Anti-Pesto with his dog and best friend, Gromit.
- Sallis also provides the voice of Hutch, a captive rabbit who gradually becomes Wallace-like after an attempted mind-alteration goes awry and who is at first suspected to be the Were-Rabbit. Sallis's voice was digitally accelerated to create that of Hutch's.
- Gromit is Wallace's silent, brave and highly intelligent dog who cares deeply for his master, and saves him whenever something goes wrong.
- Sallis also provides the voice of Hutch, a captive rabbit who gradually becomes Wallace-like after an attempted mind-alteration goes awry and who is at first suspected to be the Were-Rabbit. Sallis's voice was digitally accelerated to create that of Hutch's.
- Ralph Fiennes as Lord Victor Quartermaine, a cruel upper classbounder and a prideful hunter who is courting Lady Tottington. He wears a toupee and despises Wallace and Gromit.
- Philip is Victor's vicious but dimwitted hunting dog who resembles a Bull Terrier. He is too cowardly to face the Were-Rabbit so he instead targets Gromit.
- Helena Bonham Carter as Lady Campanula Tottington, a wealthy aristocratic spinster with a keen interest in vegetable horticulture and 'fluffy' animals. For 517 years, the Tottington family has hosted an annual vegetable competition on their estate on the same night. Lady Tottington asks Wallace to call her 'Totty' (which is a British term for attractive women) and develops a romantic interest in him. Her forename, Campanula, is the scientific name of a bellflower, and her surname is taken from the Lancashire village of Tottington.
- Peter Kay as Police Constable Albert Mackintosh, the local village policeman who judges the Giant Vegetable Contest, though he would prefer it if the (trouble-making) competition didn't happen.
- Nicholas Smith as Reverend Clement Hedges, the foolish local vicar and the first resident to witness the Were-Rabbit.
- Dicken Ashworth and Liz Smith as Mr. and Mrs. Mulch, vegetable contestants and clients of Wallace and Gromit's Anti-Pesto.
- Edward Kelsey as Mr. Growbag, an elderly resident of Wallace and Gromit's neighbourhood and a founding member of the town's veg grower's council.
- Geraldine McEwan as Miss Thripp, an Anti-Pesto customer. McEwan reprised her role in A Matter of Loaf and Death.
Production[edit]
In March 2000, it was officially announced that Wallace and Gromit were to star in their own feature film.[6] It would have been Aardman's next film after The Tortoise and the Hare, which was subsequently abandoned by the studio in July 2001, owing to script issues.[7][8]
The directors, Nick Park and Steve Box, have often referred to the film as the world's 'first vegetarian horror film'. Peter Sallis (the voice of Wallace) is joined in the film by Ralph Fiennes (as Lord Victor Quartermaine), Helena Bonham Carter (as Lady Campanula Tottington), Peter Kay (as PC Mackintosh), Nicholas Smith (as Rev. Clement Hedges), and Liz Smith (as Mrs. Mulch). As established in the preceding short films, Gromit is a silent character, communicating purely via body language.[citation needed]
The film was originally going to be called Wallace & Gromit: The Great Vegetable Plot, but the title was changed, as the market research didn't like it.[9] The first reported release date for The Great Vegetable Plot was November 2004.[10] Production officially began in September 2003, and the film was then set for release on 30 September 2005. In July 2003, Entertainment Weekly referred the film as Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.[citation needed]
Park told an interviewer that after separate test screenings with British and American children, the film was altered to 'tone down some of the British accents and make them speak more clearly so the American audiences could understand it all better.'[11] Park was often sent notes from DreamWorks, which irritated him. He recalled one note that Wallace's car should be trendier, which he disagreed with because he felt making things look old-fashioned made it look more ironic.[12]
The vehicle Wallace drives in the film is an Austin A35 van. In collaboration with Aardman in the spring of 2005, a road going replica of the model was created by brothers Mark and David Armé, founders of the International Austin A30/A35 Register, for promotional purposes. In a 500-man-hour customisation, an original 1964 van received a full body restoration, before being dented and distressed to perfectly replicate the model van used in the film. The official colour of the van is Preston Green, named in honour of Nick Park's home town. The name was chosen by the art director and Mark Armé.[citation needed]
Release[edit]
The film had its worldwide premiere on 4 September 2005, in Sydney, Australia.[4] It was theatrically released in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and the United States on 14 October 2005. The DVD edition of the film was released on 7 February 2006 (United States) and 20 February 2006 (United Kingdom).
Home media[edit]
In Region 2, the film was released in a two disc special including Cracking Contraptions, plus a number of other extras. In Region 1, the film was released on DVD in widescreen and fullscreen versions and VHS on 7 February 2006. Wal-Mart stores carried a special version with an additional DVD, 'Gromit's Tail-Waggin' DVD' which included the test shorts made for this production.
A companion game, also titled Curse of the Were-Rabbit, had a coinciding release with the film. A novelisation, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit: The Movie Novelization by Penny Worms (ISBN0-8431-1667-6), was also produced.
It was the last DreamWorks Animation film to be released on VHS. It was re released on DVD on 13 May 2014, as part of a triple film set, along with fellow Aardman/DreamWorks films Chicken Run and Flushed Away.[13]
A Blu-ray edition of the film was released by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment in the United States on 4 June 2019.[14]
Reception[edit]
Box office[edit]
Wallace & Gromit opened in 3,645 cinemas and had an opening weekend gross of $16 million, putting it at number one for that weekend.[15] During its second weekend it came in at number two, just $200,000 behind The Fog.[16] It remained number one worldwide for three weeks in a row.[17]The Curse of the Were-Rabbit grossed $192.6 million at the box office, of which $56.1 million was from the United States.[18] As of October 2019, it is the second-highest-grossing stop-motion animated film of all time behind Chicken Run.
Critical response[edit]
On Rotten Tomatoes, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit holds an approval rating of 95% based on 180 reviews, with an average rating of 8.1/10. The website's critical consensus reads, 'The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a subtly touching and wonderfully eccentric adventure featuring Wallace and Gromit.'[19] On Metacritic, the film received a weighted average score of 87 out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating 'universal acclaim.'[20] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of 'B+' on an A+ to F scale.[21]
In 2016, Empire magazine ranked it 51st on their list of the 100 best British films, with their entry stating, “The sparkling Curse Of The Were-Rabbit positively brims with ideas and energy, dazzling movie fans with sly references to everything from Hammer horrors and The Incredible Hulk to King Kong and Top Gun, and bounds along like a hound in a hurry. The plot pitches the famously taciturn Dogwarts' alumnus and his Wensleydale-chomping owner (Sallis) against the dastardly Victor Quartermaine (Fiennes), taking mutating bunnies, prize-winning marrows and the posh-as-biscuits Lady Tottington (Bonham Carter) along for the ride. In short, it's the most marvellously English animation there is.”[22]
Accolades[edit]
Group | Award | Recipients | Result |
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78th Academy Awards[23] | Best Animated Feature Film | Nick Park Steve Box | Won |
33rd Annie Awards[24][25] | Best Animated Effects | Jason Wen | Won |
Best Animated Feature | Won | ||
Best Character Animation | Claire Billet | Won | |
Best Character Design in an Animated Feature Production | Nick Park | Won | |
Best Directing in an Animated Feature Production | Nick Park Steve Box | Won | |
Best Music in an Animated Feature Production | Julian Nott | Won | |
Best Production Design in an Animated Feature Production | Phil Lewis | Won | |
Best Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production | Bob Persichetti | Won | |
Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production | Peter Sallis as the voice of Wallace | Won | |
Best Writing in an Animated Feature Production | Steve Box Nick Park Mark Burton Bob Baker | Won | |
Best Character Animation | Jay Grace Christopher Sadler | Nominated | |
Best Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production | Michael Salter | Nominated | |
Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production | Helena Bonham Carter as the voice of Lady Campanula Tottington | Nominated | |
Ralph Fiennes as the voice of Victor Quartermaine | Nominated | ||
Nicholas Smith as the voice of Reverend Clement Hedges | Nominated | ||
59th British Academy Film Awards[26] | Best British Film | Claire Jennings David Sproxton Nick Park Steve Box Mark Burton Bob Baker | Won |
British Comedy Awards[27] | Best Comedy Film | Nick Park | Won |
11th Critics' Choice Awards[28] | Best Animated Feature | Nick Park and Steve Box | Won |
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association[29] | Best Animated Feature | Won | |
Empire Awards[30] | Best Director | Nick Park Steve Box | Won |
Best British Film | Nominated | ||
Best Comedy | Nominated | ||
Scene of the Year | Nominated | ||
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards 2005[31] | Best Animated Film | Won | |
50th Hugo Awards[32] | Best Dramatic Presentation – Long Form | Nominated | |
London Film Critics Circle Awards 2005[33] | British Film of the Year | Nominated | |
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 2005[34] | Best Animated Film | Won | |
53rd Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards[35] | Best Sound Editing in Feature Film – Animated | Won | |
Golden Tomato Awards 2005[36] | Best Animated Film | Won | |
Best Wide Release | Won | ||
New York Film Critics Online Awards 2005[34] | Best Animated Film | Won | |
2006 Kids' Choice Awards[37] | Favorite Animated Movie | Nominated | |
Online Film Critics Society Awards 2005[38] | Best Animated Feature | Won | |
17th Producers Guild of America Awards[39] | Producer of the Year Award in Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures | Claire Jennings Nick Park | Won |
10th Satellite Awards[40] | Outstanding Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media | Nominated | |
32nd Saturn Awards[41] | Best Animated Film | Nominated | |
Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2005[42] | Best Animated Film | Nick Park and Steve Box | Won |
Visual Effects Society Awards 2005[43] | Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Motion Picture | Lloyd Price for 'Gromit' | Won |
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association[44] | Best Animated Film | Won |
Soundtrack[edit]
All music is composed by Julian Nott and produced by Hans Zimmer.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | 'A Grand Day Out' | 1:54 |
2. | 'Anti-Pesto to the Rescue' | 3:18 |
3. | 'Bless You, Anti-Pesto' | 1:56 |
4. | 'Lady Tottington and Victor' | 2:03 |
5. | 'Fire Up the Bun-Vac' | 1:47 |
6. | 'Your Ladyship' | 1:07 |
7. | 'Brainwash and Go' | 2:28 |
8. | 'Harvest Offering' | 2:30 |
9. | 'Arson Around' | 2:23 |
10. | 'A Big Trap' | 3:27 |
11. | 'The Morning After' | 1:44 |
12. | 'Transformation' | 4:05 |
13. | 'Ravaged in the Night' | 1:45 |
14. | 'Fluffy Lover Boy' | 4:36 |
15. | 'Kiss My Artichoke' | 4:31 |
16. | 'Dogfight' | 3:39 |
17. | 'Every Dog Has His Day' | 2:43 |
18. | 'All Things Fluffy' | 1:07 |
19. | 'Wallace and Gromit' | 1:08 |
Total length: | 48:11 |
Split of Dreamworks and Aardman[edit]
After the box-office failure of Flushed Away resulted in a major write down for DreamWorks, it was reported on 3 October 2006[45] and confirmed on 30 January 2007[46] that DreamWorks had terminated their partnership with Aardman. In revealing the losses related to Flushed Away, DreamWorks also revealed they had taken a $29 million write down over Wallace & Gromit as well, and the film under performed expectations.[47]
Following the split, Aardman retained complete ownership of the film, while DreamWorks Animation retained worldwide distribution rights in perpetuity, excluding some United Kingdom television rights and ancillary markets.[48] Soon after the end of the agreement, Aardman announced that they would proceed with another Wallace & Gromit project, later revealed to be a return to their earlier short films with A Matter of Loaf and Death for BBC One.
During production of the short, Park remarked publicly on difficulties with working with DreamWorks during the production of Were-Rabbit, such as the constant production notes and demands to alter the material to appeal more to American children.[12][49]
Notes[edit]
- ^ In July 2014, the film's distribution rights were purchased by DreamWorks Animation from Paramount Pictures (owners of the pre-2005 DreamWorks Pictures catalog)[50] and transferred to 20th Century Fox before reverting to Universal Studios in 2018. However, Aardman Animations still retains complete ownership of the film.[48]
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Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures | |
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Developer(s) | Telltale Games |
Publisher(s) | Telltale Games |
Director(s) | Andy Hartzell Joe Pinney Sean Vanaman |
Producer(s) | Franklin Alioto |
Designer(s) | Joe Pinney Sean Vanaman Andy Hartzell |
Programmer(s) | Andrew Langley Robert Oates |
Artist(s) | Peter Tsaykel |
Writer(s) | Andy Hartzell Joe Pinney Sean Vanaman |
Composer(s) | Jared Emerson-Johnson |
Series | Wallace and Gromit |
Engine | Telltale Tool |
Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows Xbox 360 iOS |
Release |
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Genre(s) | Graphic adventure |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures is an episodicgraphic adventure game based around the characters of Wallace and Gromit created by Nick Park and Aardman Animations. The game was developed and published by Telltale Games. It consists of four episodes, which were released to Microsoft Windows from March 23 to July 30, 2009 and to Xbox 360 from May 27 to November 4, 2009.[1][2]
Episodes are developed by Telltale Games in collaboration with Aardman Animations to develop the story, characters, and setting.[3] Players control both Wallace and Gromit at times through the gameplay.[3]Ben Whitehead, Aardman's official backup voice actor, portrays Wallace, instead of Peter Sallis, who had voiced the character in all screen appearances up to that point.[4] A playable demo of the first episode was made available on March 16, 2009 and can be downloaded from the official site as well as Yahoo Games. It is also included on the Region 2 DVD and Blu-ray releases of A Matter of Loaf and Death as DVD-ROM content. On January 14, 2014, Telltale Games removed the game from sale due to the expiration of their distribution rights for the Wallace & Gromitintellectual property;[5][6] customers who previously purchased the game can still download the episodes from their game library.
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Synopsis[edit]
Episode 1: Fright of the Bumblebees[edit]
Wallace has opened a new business, 'From Bee to You' specialising in delivering freshly made honey to his customers. He takes up the offer to provide fifty gallons of honey in repayment to the local grocer after his electric cheese-detecting machine accidentally rampaged through the store on a test run. However, Wallace has used up all the flowers in his garden, and is forced to improvise a growth formula to turn some daisy seeds provided by his neighbour, Ms. Flitt into giant flowers. The formula is a success, and he meets his client's demand but things soon go wrong when the bees react to the growth formula, becoming huge and terrorizing the town and Wallace's home. Gromit is able to trap most of the bees, but Wallace is stolen away by the giant bee queen. Gromit gives chase in Wallace's honey tanker truck, and is able to rescue Wallace. The two work together to feed the queen more honey dosed with more of the growth formula, forcing the bee to become stuck in a tunnel. Wallace works out an antidote to the growth formula to restore the bees to normal, though he accidentally shrinks himself in the process.
Episode 2: The Last Resort[edit]
Using their profits from the honey business, Wallace prepares to take Gromit to Blackpool, but the weather both spoils their plans and creates a small flood in the cellar. Wallace comes up with the idea of converting the water-logged cellar into an indoor holiday resort for the rest of the townsfolk, and seeks to keep them all happy, though Ms. Flitt's two puppies raise much havoc. When Ms. Flitt's 'boyfriend', Duncan McBiscuit is mysteriously injured, Wallace and Gromit deduce that the puppies, upset at having their chew toy taken away from them, attacked Duncan. In the episode's finale, the cellar drain becomes dislodged, and the puppies, chasing after their chew toy, follow it and end up in a prison cell, while Wallace starts to clean up the mess. Just as everyone leaves, a whistling man with a mustache posts a flyer for a charity fair through the door to 62 West Wallaby Street.
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Episode 3: Muzzled![edit]
Wallace And Gromit Episode List
Shortly after the holiday season, a charity fair comes into town, run by Monty Muzzle, to raise money for a new dog shelter, the old one being destroyed in the storm last episode. After dealing with three strays in their home, Wallace and Gromit go to the fair with Wallace's new invention to create any flavor of ice cream. At the fair, Gromit discovers that Mr. Muzzle is actually attempting to steal away the townspeople's donations and using the strays as manual labor for the fair. When Wallace and Gromit uncover Mr. Muzzle's intentions, he escapes on a makeshift balloon, but Wallace and Gromit give chase, denying Mr. Muzzle of his ill-gotten money while saving all the strays. Ms. Flitt, who dumped Duncan McBiscuit earlier in the episode and has grown to admire the 'bravery' of Wallace (unaware that it was actually Gromit that stopped Muzzle), mistakes his confusion at finding a loose fastening nut as an engagement ring and a marriage proposal from him.
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Episode 4: The Bogey Man[edit]
Wallace starts a new business called Golden Retrieval which aims to find lost objects and Major Crum hires him. In order to defuse Ms. Flitt's mistake in accepting what she had mistaken as a proposal from Wallace, Gromit manages to make him a member of the local country club, Prickly Thicket, which Ms. Flitt's aunt Prudence loathes and soundly rejects her niece's marriage to Wallace. Ernest Dibbins, the local constable, jealous that Wallace was admitted over him, uses an obscure bylaw to threaten the club with closure since it does not have a golf course–or rather it does, but members do not know where it is because the deed is missing, safely held in a security system designed by Wallace's (apparent) ancestor, Goodman Witless (and his faithful dog Gimlet). Using his detective equipment Wallace manages to find the deed which Major Crum hired him to do, but discovers that the entire town was built on the golf course, and a vengeful Duncan decides to have the town destroyed in order to rebuild the course. Wallace challenges Duncan to a golf tournament so that he may become chairman and tear up the deed, saving the town, and manages to win with Gromit's help. However, as he goes to tear the deed, the security system traps him and the other townsfolk in a room, and Gromit is forced to disable the trap and free everyone. Wallace tears up the deed, and is thankful to find that Ms. Flitt has cancelled their engagement and gone back to Duncan, who her aunt almost now approves of since he is no longer the club chairman.
Reception[edit]
Game | GameRankings | Metacritic |
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Episode 1: Fright of the Bumblebees | (PC) 78%[7] (X360) 75%[8] | (PC) 76[9] (X360) 73[10] |
Episode 2: The Last Resort | (PC) 74%[11] (X360) 72%[12] | (PC) 72[13] (X360) 73[14] |
Episode 3: Muzzled! | (PC) 77%[15] (X360) 75%[16] | (PC) 75[17] (X360) 72[18] |
Episode 4: The Bogey Man | (PC) 74%[19] (X360) 74%[20] | (PC) 72[21] (X360) 72[22] |
Episode 1: Fright of the Bumblebees[edit]
Episode 1: Fright of the Bumblebees received positive reviews. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the PC version 78% and 76/100[7][9] and the Xbox 360 version 75% and 73/100.[8][10]
Episode 2: The Last Resort[edit]
Episode 2: The Last Resort received moderately positive reviews. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the PC version 74% and 72/100[11][13] and the Xbox 360 version 72% and 73/100.[12][14]
Episode 3: Muzzled![edit]
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Episode 3: Muzzled! received positive reviews. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the PC version 77% and 75/100[15][17] and the Xbox 360 version 75% and 72/100.[16][18]
List Of Wallace And Gromit Episodes
Episode 4: The Bogey Man[edit]
Episode 4: The Bogey Man received mostly positive reviews. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the PC version 74% and 72/100[19][21] and the Xbox 360 version 74% and 72/100.[20][22]
References[edit]
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- ^Padilla, Raymond (February 4, 2009). ''Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures' Coming To PC And Xbox 360 Spring 2009'. G4TV. Retrieved February 4, 2009.
- ^ ab'Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures FAQ'. Telltale Games. Retrieved July 30, 2008.
- ^'Wallace Unavailable'. The International House of Mojo. February 14, 2008. Retrieved January 17, 2014.
- ^G-Doc (January 13, 2014). 'Weekend Promo: Adventures NOW!'. GOG.com. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
- ^'Why is Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures no longer available?'. Telltale Games. Telltale Games. Retrieved September 17, 2017.
- ^ ab'Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, Episode 1: Fright of the Bumblebees Reviews'. GameRankings. Retrieved February 7, 2013.
- ^ ab'Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, Episode 1: Fright of the Bumblebees Reviews'. GameRankings. Retrieved February 7, 2013.
- ^ ab'Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, Episode 1: Fright of the Bumblebees Reviews'. Metacritic. Retrieved February 7, 2013.
- ^ ab'Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, Episode 1: Fright of the Bumblebees Reviews'. Metacritic. Retrieved February 7, 2013.
- ^ ab'Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, Episode 2: The Last Resort Reviews'. GameRankings. Retrieved February 7, 2013.
- ^ ab'Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, Episode 2: The Last Resort Reviews'. GameRankings. Retrieved February 7, 2013.
- ^ ab'Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, Episode 2: The Last Resort Reviews'. Metacritic. Retrieved February 7, 2013.
- ^ ab'Wallace & Gromit Episode 2: The Last Resort Reviews'. Metacritic. Retrieved February 7, 2013.
- ^ ab'Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, Episode 3: Muzzled! Reviews'. GameRankings. Retrieved February 7, 2013.
- ^ ab'Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, Episode 3: Muzzled! Reviews'. GameRankings. Retrieved February 7, 2013.
- ^ ab'Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, Episode 3: Muzzled! Reviews'. Metacritic. Retrieved February 7, 2013.
- ^ ab'Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, Episode 3: Muzzled! Reviews'. Metacritic. Retrieved February 7, 2013.
- ^ ab'Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, Episode 4: The Bogey Man Reviews'. GameRankings. Retrieved February 7, 2013.
- ^ ab'Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, Episode 4: The Bogey Man Reviews'. GameRankings. Retrieved February 7, 2013.
- ^ ab'Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, Episode 4: The Bogey Man Reviews'. Metacritic. Retrieved February 7, 2013.
- ^ ab'Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, Episode 4: The Bogey Man Reviews'. Metacritic. Retrieved February 7, 2013.