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A sharp, affectionate return to classic stop-motion adventure that mixes cozy British comedy with a surprisingly timely AI-and-automation satire. It’s especially rewarding for viewers who like inventive visual gags, expressive animation, and the Wallace/Gromit dynamic at full strength.
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Wed · 1h 19m
Director: Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham
Starring: Ben Whitehead, Peter Kay, Lauren Patel
Gromit’s concern that Wallace is becoming too dependent on his inventions proves justified, when Wallace invents a “smart” gnome that seems to develop a mind of its own. When it emerges that a vengeful figure from the past might be masterminding things, it falls to Gromit to battle sinister forces and save his master… or Wallace may never be able to invent again!
Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham
Ben Whitehead, Peter Kay, Lauren Patel
A sharp, affectionate return to classic stop-motion adventure that mixes cozy British comedy with a surprisingly timely AI-and-automation satire. It’s especially rewarding for viewers who like inventive visual gags, expressive animation, and the Wallace/Gromit dynamic at full strength.
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is a welcome reminder of how much mileage great craftsmanship can get from simple comic ideas. The film leans into the series’ signature pleasures: tactile stop-motion detail, immaculate timing, and the wordless exasperation of Gromit as Wallace blunders onward with cheerful self-sabotage. It feels handmade in the best possible way, and that handmade quality gives its jokes extra bite in an era obsessed with automation.
The story folds in a smart tech premise without losing the cozy, eccentric charm that defines the franchise. The AI angle is funny because it’s not treated as a lecture; it’s filtered through absurd inventions, escalating chaos, and a very British sense of domestic catastrophe. Feathers McGraw’s return adds real menace and a pleasingly old-school villain energy, giving the film a stronger edge than its sunny surface suggests.
This is not the most emotionally expansive Wallace & Gromit outing, but it doesn’t need to be. Its pleasures are precision, invention, and the satisfaction of watching a beautifully engineered comic machine run at full tilt. For longtime fans, it’s a treat; for newcomers, it’s one of the easiest and most charming entry points into the series.
Kaitlin (4.5★) · 22376 likes
wallace, you’ve done it again. you have managed to piss me off to no end. you blubbering buffoon. you lazy stupid oaf. pay your council tax and show gromit some fucking respect.
lily ☮︎ (4★) · 15878 likes
feminist 6'5 king gromit casually indulging in some Virginia woof
Matt Singer (4★) · 15868 likes
What better vehicle for a story about the dangers of unchecked artificial intelligence than a film created by hand with stop-motion animation?
Ruby Innes (4★) · 9126 likes
i love you gromit i would pat you on the head every day gromit
Mina Rhodes (3.5★) · 8295 likes
I hate Wallace. I find him despicable. It is not simply that he is ugly—which he is—it is his seemingly bottomless stupidity that so offends. His infinite capacity for being a mark is infuriating; and one cannot even delight in his suffering because he is too dumb to comprehend the peril he continuously places himself in. I used to feel sympathy for Gromit, but he is an enabler, and therefore a fool undeserving of pity himself, and one is ultimately left in the position of siding with the fierce, cunty penguin. Let him have his diamonds.
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