Wallace & Gromit - La maledizione del coniglio mannaro [Cartoon-Ita/Eng/MultiSub-D

Italiano



Nella città in cui vivono Wallace e Gromit si sta avvicinando il gran giorno del Festival dell'Ortaggio Gigante, vanto degli abitanti del luogo da 500 anni. Wallace e Gromit decidono di approfittare dell'occasione inventandosi un business da disinfestatori (incruenti): si ribattezzano la società "Anti-Pesto" e vanno in giro a liberare gli orti dei vicini dai conigli e tutti gli animali che potrebbero rovinare le preziose verdure. Si impegnano anche a liberare l'enorme tenuta di Lady Campanula Tottington, dove si terrà il festival, e nel mentre si attirano l'inimicizia del borioso Lord Victor Quartermaine e del suo bulldog, che diventeranno loro nemici. Poiché essi non hanno cuore di sterminare i coniglietti, li tengono in casa e li alimentano, ma arriva il giorno in cui non c'è più spazio per ospitarli.



Allora Wallace decide di utilizzare una delle sue bizzarre invenzioni per fare il lavaggio del cervello ai conigli, in modo che essi perdano la voglia di mangiare verdure e smettano di assalire gli orti. Lo strambo inventore collega la sua testa al macchinario e un contenitore con i conigli all'altro capo della macchina: così facendo ai conigli si dovrebbe trasmettere l'amore per il formaggio che Wallace ha da sempre. Un incidente causa l'esplosione della macchina e trasforma un coniglio in un essere semi-umano che parla e si comporta come Wallace.



Intanto gli orti del vicinato iniziano a essere devastati da un'enorme bestia contro cui anche le misure di sicurezza approntate da Wallace non possono fare nulla. Durante una notte di caccia al coniglio gigante, si scopre la terribile verità: non solo la macchina ha creato un "Wallace mannaro", ma Wallace stesso è diventato un enorme coniglio mannaro! Dato che anche Lord Quartermaine era in caccia del mostro, capita che le due squadre si incontrino e Wallace si trasformi aggredendo Quartermaine. A quel punto Quartermaine decide di eliminare il rivale e si fa dare dal reverendo l'unica arma che possa uccidere un coniglio mannaro: un proiettile d'oro.



Arriva il giorno del festival, che si è tenuto perché Quartermaine ha diffuso la falsa notizia che il mostro era stato eliminato: a quel punto Gromit attira il coniglio mannaro utilizzando lo stesso ortaggio gigante che lui stesso aveva amorevolmente curato, scatenando il panico. Il coniglio-Wallace rapisce Lady Campanula (probabilmente scambiata per una carota per via del suo vestito), madrina del festival, e la porta in cima al maniero dei Tottington. Mentre Gromit e il cane di Quartermaine si danno battaglia su due aeroplani giocattolo, Quartermaine cerca di uccidere Wallace, ma per fortuna Gromit interviene fermando con il suo aereo l'ultimo proiettile sparato dal cacciatore (che non era altro che il premio a forma di carota del festival); il cane rischia di precipitare, ma Wallace per salvare l'amico si butta giù dal tetto del maniero afferrando l'aeroplanino e schiantandosi su un tendone. A quel punto Quartermaine sta per eliminare il coniglio-Wallace, ma interviene Lady Campanula che lo colpisce con una carota. Gromit traveste Quartermaine, mentre è svenuto a terra, da coniglio usando un vecchio costume e lo guarda sfuggire alla folla inferocita. Frattanto Wallace, morente per le ferite, si ritrasforma in umano, e Gromit lo fa rivivere facendogli annusare del formaggio. Colpita dall'impegno di Wallace e Gromit, Lady Campanula dà il premio all'ortaggio di Gromit e trasforma la sua tenuta in una zona protetta per tutti i conigli dei dintorni, incluso il Wallace mannaro.



English



Tottington Hall's annual Giant Vegetable Competition is approaching. The winner of the competition will win the Golden Carrot Award. All are eager to protect their vegetables from damage and thievery by rabbits until the contest, and Wallace and Gromit are cashing in by running a vegetable security and humane pest control business, "Anti-Pesto".



However, they are faced with two problems: the first is Wallace's growing weight and the second is inadequate space for the captured rabbits. Wallace comes up with an idea — use his Mind Manipulation-O-Matic machine to brainwash the rabbits, allowing them to run freely without harming everyone's gardens. While performing the operation, he kicks the switch and something goes terribly wrong, leaving them with a semi-intelligent rabbit who (in a slow metamorphosis) starts to behave like Wallace (down to his fondness for cheese) and whom Wallace names "Hutch". Soon the town is threatened by the "Were-Rabbit", a giant rabbit-like monster which eats vegetables of any size. During a chaotic yet hilarious town meeting, Anti-Pesto enters into a rivalry with Lord Victor Quartermaine to capture the Were-Rabbit and to win Lady Tottington's heart. After the first night of the Were-Rabbit, the townsfolk start to argue about what to do.



After a hectic night-time chase, Gromit discovers that the Were-Rabbit (whom he assumed was Hutch at first) is, in fact, Wallace, suffering from the effects of the accident with the Mind Manipulation-O-Matic having caused him and Hutch to each take on aspects of the other; Hutch even displays Wallace's knack for inventions and regularly repeats some of Wallace's old phrases. Victor corners Wallace during the night, jealous of Lady Tottington's growing fondness for him because of his humane practice of pest control (whereas Victor thinks it's more effective to shoot and kill them). But then Wallace falls into the path of moonlight and transforms. Victor, having identified the Were-Rabbit, goes to Reverend Clement Hedges and gains access to "24-carrot" gold bullets - supposedly, the only things capable of killing a Were-Rabbit.



During the final showdown, Victor and his dog Philip capture Gromit, who subsequently escapes and decides to make the ultimate sacrifice by using the melon he had been growing for the competition as bait for Wallace who, in his rabbit form, has burst in upon the vegetable contest, causing panic. Victor tries to shoot what is apparently the monster, but Gromit is one step ahead of him, using a rabbit costume he and Wallace had created prior to the discovery of the Were-Rabbit's true nature as a trap. Unfortunately, the marrow cannot keep Wallace's attention as Victor tries to take the golden carrot award from a distressed Lady Tottington (The only vaguely bullet-like object left to him after he exhausted the gold bullets provided by the vicar). Wallace ascends to the rooftops, holding a screaming Lady Tottington in his hand. Discovering his identity, she promises to protect him, only to be interrupted by Victor. Meanwhile, in a mid-air dogfight in toy aeroplanes, Philip chases after Gromit. Gromit forces his foe out of the air in a fiery crash and explosion - but Philip manages to hold on to Gromit's plane and the two grapple with each other. The fight rages on and in the end, Gromit releases Philip, ironically, through the bomb doors and into a bouncy castle.



Atop Tottington Hall, Gromit's toy biplane circles Wallace, who clings onto the flagpole at the top of the building for dear life. Victor, wielding the Golden Carrot trophy inside a blunderbuss he finds at an antiques table at the fair, tries one last time to shoot Wallace, but Wallace is saved by Gromit, who grabs onto a rope from a flagpole and swings his plane into the path of the improvised bullet. The enraged Victor throws down the blunderbuss and stamps on it screaming out "Potty poo!" Unfortunately, since it is a toy plane not intended for flying, when Gromit accidentally lets go of the rope, the plane begins to descend rapidly. Wallace jumps from the flagpole and catches the plane, thereby breaking Gromit's fall into the cheese tent below. Victor gloats, but is knocked unconscious by Lady Tottington, using a giant carrot. He falls into the tent too, where Wallace lies unconscious and seemingly dying of his injuries. To protect Wallace from the angry mob outside, Gromit dresses Victor up as the monster (using a marionette he used earlier as a lure for the Were-Rabbit), and throws him out of the tent. Philip, believing Victor to be the beast, bites his master, and the angry mob chases Victor away.



Gromit and Tottington tend to Wallace who, seconds later, breathes his last and morphs back into his human form. Gromit, the rabbits, and Lady Tottington are saddened by their loss, but Gromit is able to revive Wallace with a slice of Stinking Bishop cheese. Gromit, for his bravery and his "brave and splendid marrow", is awarded the (now somewhat battered) competition trophy, and Lady Tottington turns Tottington Hall into a wildlife refuge where all the rabbits, including Hutch, can live in peace.