Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl review – Britain's premier stop-motion heroes are better than ever in new rematch with Feathers McGraw

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl review – Britain's premier stop-motion heroes are better than ever in new rematch with Feathers McGraw

5.0 out of 5 star rating Try to imagine a world without Wallace & Gromit. You can’t, and that’s because Nick Park’s beloved besties are as synonymous with British culture as a cheeky cuppa or a slice of Wensleydale. But there was a brie-f time recently when the future didn’t look so great for our stop-motion heroes… Fans were alarmed last year when the factory who supplies modelling clay to Aardman Animations suddenly shut down in March 2023.…

‘Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’ Review: Feathers McGraw Returns in a Hysterical Sequel

Sometimes I think we put too much pressure on Aardman Animation. They’re the filmmakers who brought us “Wallace and Gromit,” “Chicken Run,” “Arthur Christmas” and “Shaun the Sheep,” so they have a very long legacy of high-quality and hilarious movies. Even their underwhelming films, like “Flushed Away,” aren’t nearly as bad as the worst movies made by their competitors. So we expect Aardman — like we expect Studio Ghibli (or like we used to expe…

'Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl' review: A delightful romp with an anti-AI streak

For over a decade, we've been in a Wallace & Gromit drought. It's been 16 years since the franchise's last short, A Matter of Loaf and Death, and 19 since its first feature film, the Academy Award–winning Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. That's a long time to be apart from two of Britain's greatest treasures.Thankfully, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is here to put an end to this international crisis. The new film from Aard…

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl Review

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl premieres on BBC One and BBC iPlayer December 25 and streams on Netflix beginning January 3. 2025. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl picks up on the stop-motion franchise’s goofy, breezy, gag-packed energy as if the last 16 years didn’t happen. Any worries of a cheap rehash banking on nostalgia can be ground into dust: Vengeance Most Fowl strikes the perfect balance of telling a new story about mild-mann…

‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’ Review: Britain’s Most Beloved Stop-Motion Characters Return to Battle an Old Foe

It’s all about the fingerprints. Stop-motion animation intrinsically calls attention to its creation — the time-intensive nature of the process, the sheer amount of labor built into the design, the communal strength necessary for any project to come to fruition. The fingerprints left by filmmaker Nick Park and his comrades at Aardman Animation on the clay figures of their flagship duo Wallace and Gromit are visual proof of the tactility inherent…

Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl review: The world's most terrifying penguin returns

All family films, even quaint stop-motion ones, require a good villain. And in Feathers McGraw, the Wallace and Gromit franchise has one for the ages. McGraw is a penguin with all the facial expressions of Jason Statham minus the eyebrows, but he’s fully terrifying here in Vengeance Most Fowl, the first full-length Wallace and Gromit feature in 19 years. This career criminal is a master of disguise. Snap a red rubber glove on his head, and to th…