Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’ Review

For 35 years, the inventor and his faithful dog have been entertaining audiences in their West Wallaby Street home. From their innovative and clever DIY creations to their penchant for cheese treats, Wallace and Gromit have become the iconic couple of stop-motion animation, raising the bar for the medium in the process. Watch this movie on Flix Hd Movies.

Now, filmmaking duo Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham are delighting moviegoers with Wallace & Gromit 3: The Curse of Remembrance, an all-new crime thriller starring our beloved dynamic duo and a timely message about our over-reliance on technology.

Wallace & Gromit 3: The Curse of Remembrance begins "many years ago..." when Wallace and Gromit Feather thwarted McGraw's plan to steal the blue diamond. In one of the film's first humorous scenes, Feathers is sentenced to prison, but the directors reveal that the iron gate is actually part of his enclosure at the local zoo. Now the series' most mysterious and silent villain (and the film's best actor) is swirling in his mind and will stop at nothing to get revenge on Wallace and Gromit. Instead of directly tying this new part to the previous feature film, "Wallace and Gromit: The Hunt for the Giant Rabbit," Park and Crossingham go back in time to the classic Wallace and Gromit short film, "Techno Pants" (1993). But instead of relying solely on the nostalgia of the existing film, they extend the story with new ideas for a modern audience while still maintaining the original's handcrafted charm.

When the story jumps to the present, it becomes clear that Wallace (Ben Whitehead) is still the same inventor he was, overinventing things to simplify his morning routine. Just as Vincente Minnelli and Gene Kelly introduced Gerry Mulligan in An American in Paris, Park and Crossingham capture Wallace's meticulous morning routine, fueled by his signature inventions. He is not particularly keen to do anything for himself in the morning (an understandable concept) and he thinks everything out to the last detail. He is thrown out of bed, put into the bathtub, and dropped down through a tube to the breakfast table in his everyday sweater vest and trousers, where he hasn't even had to put jam on his toast. Of course Gromit is a bit annoyed by all this, as he would rather have some quiet creative time reading Virginia Woolf. He also seems particularly unhappy with his invention, a device that hits him over the head several times with a mechanical glove. Wallace becomes so dependent on technology that he even needs a machine to show Gromit affection. While its inclusion is somewhat obvious, it introduces a core theme that runs throughout the film: the cracks in Wallace and Gromit's friendship in the face of bright new events.

In Vengeance Most Fowl, the central and brilliant new feature is Wallace's exciting invention, a robotic garden gnome named Norbot. One of Gromit's hobbies is gardening, but Norbot, who has programmed hundreds of hours of "DIY Garden Squad", soon replaces Gromit and transforms his backyard into a cool and perfect topiary. Wallace becomes enthralled with Norbot's talent and efficiency, and soon his neighbors want to hire Norbot to tend to their landscaping too. Norbot's design is fantastic, with the animators highlighting his bright, colorful features and glowing eyes and cheeks that only a robot could have. He's also a little scary, as he could panic or change course at any moment. It's a necessary and clear contrast to the rough edges and fingerprints of their clay constructions that make Wallace and Gromit so lovable. Norbot's design and Shearsmith's lilting voice create a perfect contrast to Gromit's quiet stoicism, making Wallace's obsession with the new character all the more frustrating. It would have been nice to understand Gromit's true loyalties over the years.

Norbot quickly becomes the household dwarf, and he and Wallace begin to gain notoriety and attention in the local news. This catches the attention of none other than Feathers McGraw. Feathers has been nurturing his grudge for 30 years, but now that it's been announced that the Blue Diamond will be on display again, it's the perfect time to plan his escape. In another hilarious scene, Feathers hacks into the Norbots' systems with his own invention, turning their core functions evil and unleashing an army of robot gnomes on an unsuspecting, picturesque English town. At this point, screenwriter Mark Burton includes a reference to a film that only an Aardman project could dare make with impunity. As Feathers plans his escape, Burton references several prison classics, including Cape Fear and The Doomed. But the best visual cue for the feathered villain is when he sits in a chair and menacingly strokes a white seal, which immediately recalls Blofeld's cat in From Moscow with Love. These imaginative moments provide a humorous touch for adult audiences, recalling the special brand of humor found in the Wallace and Gromit films.

Of course, Wallace refuses to believe that the Norbots are responsible for all the chaos in the city, but soon-to-be-retired Chief Inspector Mackintosh and eager young police officer PC Mukherjee issue a search warrant and take all of Wallace's belongings. Valuables and inventions are gone. The story then develops into an exciting action-adventure novel, with chase scenes, creative camerawork and a train scene straight out of a Mission: Impossible film. But perhaps most importantly, at its core, the film is the story of two friends trying to find their way back to each other. When Wallace can no longer rely on technology, he finally recognizes Gromit as a companion who is as loyal and trustworthy as himself.