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‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’ Review: Feathers Returns in What Could Have Been a Perfectly Charming Short
Less ambitious than 'The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,' Aardman's latest feature gives fans what they want: a penguin and more puns than you can count.
As the spiffy sequel’s play-on-word title implies, the culprit is none other than Feathers McGraw, that diamond-thieving master of disguise last seen in 1993’s Oscar-winning short “The Wrong Trousers,” who seizes on another of Wallace’s inventions to engineer his escape from the local zoo in the stop-motion duo’s second feature in as many decades. When it comes to sequels, a clear advantage of animation is that time can stand still between installments, allowing Aardman to pick up right where we left these characters — unless, of course, it serves the material to watch them grow up, à la “Toy Story” or “Inside Out.” The technology improves, making everyone’s work a bit easier, but the studio needn’t worry about its stars aging, the way other ’80s favorites like Indiana Jones and Axel Foley have in recent follow-ups. The film is full of references to previous adventures, from Gromit’s familiar red motorbike to the “Mission: Impossible”-style finale, which upgrades from a toy train in Wallace’s living room to the real deal.
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