Bun-Vac

There are certain movies you know right off that you want to see. There you are, in the googleplex, pissed off at the new, loud Fanta commercials that play when the lights are still up, waiting for the main feature that some snarky web journalist talked you into wasting your time on that weekend, and drinking your impossibly large Coke. Then the trailers some on, and suddenly, there it is: a movie that you inherently sense is not going to suck.

Now, I'm not saying this happens very often, the spotting of a promising trailer, unless you are one of those clowns who "likes movies" and/or, automatically consumes every big-budget sci-fi/fantasy sequel churned out by Warner Brothers each holiday season. You're only likely to see such trailers if you are already at a movie that doesn't suck, since trailers are packaged in collections that approximate the average presumed IQ level of the typical audience member for the main feature (thus, if you are at, say, a stupid 70's sitcom retread film with Ben Stiller, Snoop Dog, or Owen Wilson in the cast, don't go in with high hopes to catch a trailer lacking Johnny Knoxville or Paul Rudd).

Anyhow, for inexplicable reasons, I am feeling inclined to see "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit," even though I don't particularly like family films, herky, stop-motion clay hijinx, or goggle-eyed, thumb-printed Sculpey protagonists. I chalk it up to the thought that, somewhere in this film, a device called a Bun-Vac sucks up rabbits, by way of humane pest control.

I really could have used a Bun-Vac a few summers ago...

Update: I knew this movie would rule. Example: scene in which Gromit is changing radio stations in the car, and he stops momentarily on Art Garfunkel's "Bright Eyes," the theme from classic animated rabbit slasher flick (and best novel ever written except for --oh my god-- Rabbit, Run), Watership Down.