Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl movie review: Aardmans AI critique is cracking good fun as always [Video]

Sixteen years is a long time to leave a fanbase perched precariously at the edge of anticipation, but Wallace & Gromit:Vengeance Most Fowl proves that Nick Park’s most beloved duo can step out of the plasticine shadows unscathed. In their first feature since 2005’s The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, the cheese-loving tinkerer and his long-suffering beagle find themselves in an oddly prescient predicament: the perils of artificial intelligence. Yet, in true Aardman fashion, this fresh tale of caution is about as threatening as a cup of tea left too long to cool.

The latest caper sees Wallace (voiced by a charming Ben Whitehead, following Peter Sallis’s passing) going through an unprecedented stroke of tech-obsession. His latest creation is a creepy, sentient garden gnome, marketed as the latest in labor-saving devices but one that ends up a pawn in the revenge plot of Feathers McGraw — the silent, sinister penguin villain of 1993’s Oscar-winning The Wrong Trousers. Feathers, now …