It's been 31 years since Feathers McGraw, the mute penguin resembling Arsène Lupin from Nick Park's Technopants, was caught trying to steal a diamond from the city museum. After a decade locked up in the city zoo, he's now back, seeking revenge in Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl with Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham.c Watch this movie on Flixtor free movie
With the same charm and wonderfully quirky humor that has endeared Wallace and Gromit to audiences since The Big Trip (1989), the film's plot is actually quite simple. In the nearly two decades since our famous duo's last feature film, The Hunt for the Giant Rabbit, society's reliance on smart technology has only exploded. And it seems that mild-mannered Wallace (Ben Whitehead) has, too. In fact, the eccentric cheese-obsessed inventor is so obsessed with creating contraptions that he loses sight of Gromit's needs and desires, valuing convenience over real-life connections.
The film begins with Wallace being able to do anything from bathing to toast by pushing a few buttons and pulling a few levers. But this wonderfully detailed spectacle is overshadowed by a touch of sadness, as Wallace soon comes up with an invention that allows him to pet his increasingly isolated dog. Gromit seems lonely here, enjoying his leisurely gardening and flower-trimming, but Wallace is so focused on his invention that he barely notices the overdue bills piling up to the ceiling.
Advertisement Things really get out of hand when Feathers remotely infiltrates Wallace's latest invention, Norbot (Reece Shearsmith), a gnome-robot that can cut and trim your garden with maximum efficiency. Using his own carefully crafted inventions, Feathers is able to reprogram his Roomba-like helpers into antisocial, self-sufficient, self-replicating servants. Norbot creates an army of cold-hearted, creepy landscaper clones to tend to his neighbours' gardens, but first steals a van full of supplies to break Feathers out of prison. With the largely inept Chief Inspector Mackintosh (Peter Kay) and naive, idealistic new recruit Inspector Mukherjee (Lauren Patel) on the case, it's up to Gromit, as always, to save the day.
The film's underlying message about the potential horrors of artificial intelligence may seem a little too far from the headlines for a series that thrives on slapstick farces that almost inevitably come from an idyllic place in England called Wallace and Gromit. But this didacticism is also an important part of the skill with which Aardman films seek to expand the film literacy of younger audiences. Moreover, Vengeance Most Fowl is still filled with variations on the mundane, alternating between the general and the specific, and always hilarious.