‘Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’ review: A delightful romp with an anti-AI streak [Video]

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 Aardman Animations and Netflix reunites us with the beloved Claymation duo, and the results hit as hard as a comforting cheese platter.

What’s Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl about?

Directed by Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham, Vengeance Most Fowl begins with the return of a familiar face: that of Feathers McGraw, the penguin (and criminal mastermind) who attempted to steal a precious diamond in 1993’s The Wrong Trousers. Thanks to cheese-loving inventor Wallace (voiced by Ben Whitehead) and his loyal beagle Gromit, Feathers ended …