That seemed to be a takeoff on Dyson.
Some bad news regarding Wallace and Gromit. The warehouse containing all the sets has burnt down. BBC News
Loved it. It was totally adorable. I really liked in the credits when all the little bunnies floated by waving at us. 
Once it was over we high-tailed it to the store to buy cheese and carrots. Just like after Charlie and the Chocolate factory we had to buy two pounds of chocolate.
I haven’t seen the film, but I read about this- this is the inscription on a cardboard box a naked man is wearing around his waist.
The sets and characters for Were-Rabbit were spared, but the rest of Aardman’s 25-year history- including the props from the three Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit shorts- have been lost to the blaze. My hearts are with the folks who brought these crackin’ characters to life.
Another thumbs-up vote for W&G. While it wasn’t jaw-dropping insanely wild (what movie is?), it was certainly a cracklin’ good time from beginning to end, and I definitely LOL’d at several points in the movie. The humor was slightly cheekier than the W&G shorts in the past (“May contain nuts,” indeed), but was easily good clean fun for the entire family.
To touch on a few points, I didn’t see Hutch turning into a were-Wallace at all, and was slightly disappointed it didn’t figure into the resolution of the story.
And the coins bit was definitely the funniest thing in the whole film. Along with “Middle Aged Spread”…
One of my favorite gags was the stained glass window behind the elderly priest (“Beware!”) when you first see him. It’s got a bunch of angels at the top, blowing trumpets, and underneath them are a bunch of scowling saints with their fingers in their ears.
Also, “Fromage to Eternity.”
Yeah, what was up with that?
They set up Hutch fixing the machine that would put everything back to normal, and then it didn’t come to play in the end? They just dropped it!
The Middle Aged Spread was indeed a hoot. Also the song that is briefly playing on the radio when Gromit is alone in the car is an obscure rabbit-oriented cinematic/literary in-joke.
I agree it wasn’t quite as funny as I had hoped. I think because they needed more speaking characters than the shorts have, and the new characters they developed for the film were not uniformly funny all the time. I expect I will appreciate the film more when I see it again, though. My five year old son loved it and didn’t fidget, but he has a long attention span for his age.
I missed any explicit references to Harvey, but I don’t know that movie real well. Can someone help me out?
I think Laughing Lagomorph is a very apt user name for this particular thread.
After the lady rabit lure gets knocked off the top of the Anti-Pesto van, Wallace goes back to get it while Gromit waits in the car. They’re parked in front of a store that has an electric sign in the shape of a carrot, with “Harvey’s” written on it.
Another great gag:
Light rain
Heavy rain
Heavy loam
Well, they had him set up fiddling with the stuff, but nothing more than that. Though I suspect someone believed that a climax involving a sit-down in the basement would have been too anti-climactic.
Well, I expected Gromit to pull the repaired machine out of the van at the Vegetable Festival. They would have lost the gag at the end though where Wallace says a little part of himself (Hutch) would always be there…presumably if they had used the machine to put everything right Hutch would have reverted back to a normal rabbit
Thanks Miller
Just saw it tonight. Gosh I love these characters. How do they manage to make a silent dog convey so many emotions? That’s art.
I giggled all the way through. My favorite? The scary dog’s change purse.
And the short was fun, too.
My fall movie schedule started off with a bang. Woo!
I loved the change purse also.
You know chicken little looked pretty good. I think I will take the kids to it.
I’ll have to see this one to see if the quality is good, but right now, I fear this will outgross Wallace and Gromit. Disney always wins. They can market the hell out of anything.
Also, “East of Edam” and “Grated Expectations”. I didn’t catch any other book titles, did anyone else?
One notable recent exception being Valiant, with an American release so low-key it disappeared from theaters before most people knew it was playing at all…
Oh, and Curse of the Were-Rabbit made number 1 at the weekend box office. 
I’m slipping in my old age. I meant last week to post a link to this story on NPR which contains an audio link to an interview with Nick Park. Good stuff.
True, but that was only distributed by Disney.
Run Rabbit Run (hollered by someone),
From Hare to Eternity, I think
Several others that aren’t coming to mind right now.
I was disappointed in the movie, but maybe I’d built it up too much in my mind. It had some great jokes, but I’m not as crazy about claymation people (with the exception of Wallace, and Wendolynn from Close Shave) as I am about the critters.
I don’t recall any offhand, but I did love the name of the author of the book of monsters: Claude Savagely