Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl by Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham (2024)
It pains me to say this, but I was a bit underwhelmed by Vengeance Most Fowl. It is, of course, as pleasant and jovial as any Wallace & Gromit title could be, but I suspect therein lies the problem. Not that I want a “gritty” Aardman title, mind you, but seeing as it’s a sequel of sorts to 1993’s The Wrong Trousers — which boasts one of the greatest chase sequences in cinema history — Vengeance Most Fowl just doesn’t quite have the same pizzazz. Wallace and Gromit’s latest escapade hits all of the expected moments (e.g., wacky inventions going awry, Wallace’s blissful naïveté, Gromit’s expressive disgruntlement), and it features the return of the dastardly Feathers McGraw, but it’s never more than the some of its parts. What’s more, I don’t think it contains a single Wensleydale reference.
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