REVIEW:Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
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Dana! Thirty years after Wallace and Gromit premiered in German cinemas and instantly sold over 175,000 tickets along with a collection of short films, Aardman Animation's timeless flagship shows no signs of fatigue. Winged Revenge is the first film to feature a clueless inventor living at 62 West Wallaby Street in Wigan, Yorkshire, and a clever dog who occasionally gives his owner a head pat. For Aardman, it's their second feature film, following the 2005 Chicken Run sequel Operation Nugget. Stream movie on Afdah movie.
It's a good new frontier for the Bristol clay-working experts, who had to watch all their props go up in flames in a fire in 2005, about 15 years ago, when they quickly went bankrupt after the disappointing performances of Arthur Christmas and Pirates. Flirting.
"Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance with Wings"
It's all the more pleasing to see Nick Park's gang at the height of their creativity again. There's nothing in "Vengeance with Wings" that couldn't have been shown 15 years ago, and most of it couldn't have been shown 30 years ago, but this 82-minute madcap comedy still seems so fresh, innovative and satisfying. The surprises and the never-ending onslaught of ever crazier ideas and twists speak to the timelessness of this very special form of comedy. It's the famous Ealing comedies and the (silly) "Carry On" film series, but it's always managed to keep up with giants like Chaplin, Keaton, Laurel and Hardy and Tati. The only difference is that the images, created with a special combination of clay stop-motion and computer animation, directed by Park and his colleague Merlin Crossingham, defy all laws of gravity.
Wallace and Gromit: Winged Revenge from Aardman Animation
Another key feature is the return of a character not seen since 1993's Techno Pants: the criminal penguin Feathers McGraw. Red rubber gloves on his head. He's been sitting at the zoo with Wallace's inventions since a failed heist and is now waiting to return to action. When the film first cuts to Feathers in his cell, the producers show him as Max Cady from Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear, just as the whole film is full of loving allusions to cinematic history, with Hitchcock in particular being a frequent reference. The suspense fits perfectly into the kind of humour Aardman plays with as a series of cosmic inevitabilities.
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