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1* AccidentalInnuendo: "The golden carrot belongs in the Were-Rabbit!"
2* BrokenBase: While the film is by no means hated, there's some disagreement among fans as to whether the feature retains the British charm that made the original shorts so beloved or if it's been too "Americanized" by Creator/{{DreamWorks|Animation}}'s influence.
3* HarsherInHindsight: The morning after the first were-rabbit attack, Constable Mackintosh attributes the incident to arson, then adds "someone [[{{Pun}} arsin']] around!" This becomes less funny when you realise that the Creator/AardmanAnimations warehouse burnt down in October 2005, on the day after this film premiered, no less. [[note]]Thankfully it wasn't arson, just an electrical fault.[[/note]]
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5%% The death of Creator/PeterSallis does not make Wallace's DisneyDeath an example of HarsherInHindsight, as the circumstances %% of his death were completely unrelated to his character's death in the film.
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7* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Creator/PeterSallis was already a well-respected and seasoned British actor, but this was easily his best performance as Wallace.
8* HilariousInHindsight: Lady Tottington and Victor are voiced by [[Franchise/HarryPotter Bellatrix Lestrange and Voldemort]], the latter of whom made his film debut less than a month after this film's release in ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire''.
9* LoveToHate: Victor is a piece of work, sure. But [[Creator/RalphFiennes Ralph Fiennes’s]] pompous and incredibly hammy performance makes him an entertaining delight to watch.
10* MoralEventHorizon: Victor still keeps trying to kill the Were-Rabbit even though he's aware of his identity as [[spoiler:Wallace.]] If anything, [[spoiler:discovering the Were-Rabbit is the man who's seemingly stealing his girlfriend (whom he's only marrying for her money) away from him makes him even ''more'' determined to kill it]].
11* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The score for the opening scene of PC Mackintosh walking his beat sounds a lot like the theme from ''Film/TheElephantMan''.
12* TearDryer: [[spoiler:Wallace turns back into a human after falling from a great height and appears to be dead. Gromit is devastated, until he gets the idea to revive him with cheese. It works]].
13* ToughActToFollow: Though not universally beloved, most ''Wallace & Gromit'' fans will agree that this is where the franchise peaked. ''WesternAnimation/AMatterOfLoafAndDeath'' is widely agreed to be the weakest installment and the much smaller installments since then have only had limited success in its native England, moreso since Creator/PeterSallis was replaced at the voice of Wallace (and since died). The same argued for Aardman's proceeding feature films in general, as all of them have been {{acclaimed flop}}s at best and [[BoxOfficeBomb regular flops]] at worst.
14* {{Woolseyism}}: While some Finnish translations just directly translate the "May contain nuts" joke as it still works in Finnish, some (such as the one ''Creator/{{Netflix}}'' uses) instead go with "Ei täysin munaton", which not only still uses the food label theme, it takes the joke even further and even adds extra meaning to it. [[labelnote:Explanation]]"Muna" is Finnish for egg, but is also slang for male genitalia. A direct translation back to English would be "[[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Not entirely dickless]]"[[/labelnote]]

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