12. Wallace And Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (2005)
The early Wallace And Gromit shorts have been perennial favourites on British television for many years, with A Grand Day Out, A Close Shave and The Wrong Trousers family favourites on Christmas morning. Wallace And Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit proves that not all short format comedy is doomed to failure on the big screen, with Nick Park and his team of stop motion animators at Aardman Animation putting together a feature every bit as charming, funny and distinctly British as the earlier shorts (the action sequences have the panache of Hollywood, made all the more amusing by the quaint visual references to pastoral England). The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit has the honour of being the only stop motion animated movie to have won an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature - sadly, the relatively weak box office performance and the poor health of Peter Sallis, the voice of Wallace, means that a new big screen outing for the duo is unlikely to happen.
