Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024)
December 25, 2024 11:09 AM - Subscribe
Gromit's concerned that Wallace has become over-dependent on his inventions, which proves justified when Wallace invents a "smart gnome" that seems to develop a mind of its own.
That was good fun! Ben Whitehead did a grand job of mimicking Peter Sallis' voice as Wallace.
I felt a bit confused as to when it was set. It used to feel about 1960ish to me, but now with beige keyboards and CRT computers and PC Mukherjee's uniform, some aspects seem 1990s and some 1950s. Maybe time is passing in the Wallaceverse at the same speed as real life, so it's 35 years later than "A Grand Day Out"?
posted by TheophileEscargot at 7:51 AM on December 26
I felt a bit confused as to when it was set. It used to feel about 1960ish to me, but now with beige keyboards and CRT computers and PC Mukherjee's uniform, some aspects seem 1990s and some 1950s. Maybe time is passing in the Wallaceverse at the same speed as real life, so it's 35 years later than "A Grand Day Out"?
posted by TheophileEscargot at 7:51 AM on December 26
I always had the feeling this series took place in the present, but in a kind of a parallel, Wallace and Gromit-y present. Sort of like how classic comic strips take place "now," but it's always kind of the same "now" where nobody ages.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 1:45 PM on December 26 [4 favorites]
posted by Ursula Hitler at 1:45 PM on December 26 [4 favorites]
Okay, this was a delight! Did anyone else immediately recognize the voice of Philomena Cunk as the reporter? Because that is some outstanding casting. I also liked the way that this one also ended with a train-based chase with Feathers McGraw, and really enjoyed the very brief cameo by the farmer from Shaun the Sheep (which is, I suppose, canon within Wallace & Gromit? Given that Wallace is the one who named Shaun?).
Dunno if it's a completely perfect classic like The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave, but honestly it's just more Wallace & Gromit and that's never not a good thing.
posted by DoctorFedora at 11:49 PM on January 3 [2 favorites]
Dunno if it's a completely perfect classic like The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave, but honestly it's just more Wallace & Gromit and that's never not a good thing.
posted by DoctorFedora at 11:49 PM on January 3 [2 favorites]
Feathers McGraw is my favorite and as soon as I saw him in the trailer, I was all in. I really enjoyed this one! I giggled more than I should have at the password gag.
I thought for sure this would be made completely with CGI (who has the patience for claymation these days?) but then I spied a story about the concern that the clay manufacturer had gone out of business and I knew all was well.
posted by invokeuse at 7:39 PM on January 6 [1 favorite]
I thought for sure this would be made completely with CGI (who has the patience for claymation these days?) but then I spied a story about the concern that the clay manufacturer had gone out of business and I knew all was well.
posted by invokeuse at 7:39 PM on January 6 [1 favorite]
Did anyone else immediately recognize the voice of Philomena Cunk as the reporter?
Yes! I had just watched the Cunk on Life trailer so I did a legit double take.
I loved this - as a lifelong Wallace and Gromit fan I really enjoyed all the Easter eggs and the attention to detail is just incredible. I have (undiagnosed) ADHD and normally have to have multiple things to do while watching a movie but this kept me absolutely engrossed - I can't remember the last time a movie held my attention so well!
posted by toebeans at 12:56 PM on January 7
Yes! I had just watched the Cunk on Life trailer so I did a legit double take.
I loved this - as a lifelong Wallace and Gromit fan I really enjoyed all the Easter eggs and the attention to detail is just incredible. I have (undiagnosed) ADHD and normally have to have multiple things to do while watching a movie but this kept me absolutely engrossed - I can't remember the last time a movie held my attention so well!
posted by toebeans at 12:56 PM on January 7
The incidental music takes me straight back to Looney Tunes and the great classic studio film scores that LT's composers borrowed from heavily. Feathers McGraw's shaving scene? Pure BabyFace Finster. And the Hitchcock influences in this latest outing are clear too.
I'll be returning to this film again and again to see what I missed, and I'm sure I'll see and hear something new each time. What a delight.
posted by rabia.elizabeth at 10:57 AM on January 10
I'll be returning to this film again and again to see what I missed, and I'm sure I'll see and hear something new each time. What a delight.
posted by rabia.elizabeth at 10:57 AM on January 10
This is wonderful, and everyone should watch it. Truly delightful and very funny. I haven't seen my wife laugh at a movie so hard in recent memory.
posted by mrphancy at 11:16 AM on January 10
posted by mrphancy at 11:16 AM on January 10
Glad they resisted the urge to give Wallace another ‘girlfriend’.
posted by Phanx at 1:13 AM on January 11
posted by Phanx at 1:13 AM on January 11
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