Who ever said that stop-motion animation was dead?

“Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” is the newest release under the Wallace and Gromit brand, coming out 16 years after Wallace and Gromit: “A Matter of Loaf and Death”.

“Vengeance Most Fowl” follows genius inventor Wallace and his new invention Norbot, a robot gnome that completes any home and gardening task.

While Wallace and Norbot go out to make money with their new business, “Gnome Improvements,” we cut to a familiar face, who is in a zoo as their prison sentence.

Feathers Mcgraw, whose first appearance was over 30 years ago in Wallace and Gromit: “The Wrong Trousers.” is a jailed penguin, who was imprisoned for the attempted theft of the blue diamond, and seeing as Wallace and Gromit were the ones who stopped him, he has an extreme disdain towards them.

Feathers sees a news program on the guard’s television from his cell, notices Wallace’s now sought-after Norbot, and begins to craft his plan for vengeance, most fowl.

Hijinks ensue, and Gromit begins to suspect an army of recently built Norbots, while Wallace thinks nothing of it, due to people loving his invention. Gromit follows around the Norbots, which all seem to be doing their normal tasks that are asked of them. However, they are stealing the tools they receive, and even went as far as to steal an entire shed. This noticed theft alerts the police to Wallace being a supposed, crazed inventor, and his technology is taken from him.

This is where Feathers’s plan begins, all of the tools and items stolen by the Norbots were used to build a submarine which Feathers uses to escape from his zoo enclosure. 

In a slow, yet exciting narrowboat chase, Wallace and Gromit chase after Feathers to stop him from stealing the blue diamond once more.

Overall, this movie holds up really well against its predecessor films, which all had their own wacky British humor, which is quite stark compared to American film humor. The stop motion holds up very well, and with all the technical developments since the last film, digital editing has allowed Aardman Animations to remove any fingerprints and strands of hair from the clay figures and background sets.

With a total runtime of one hour, 19 minutes, the story fits surprisingly well with all of its sudden twists and turns, and despite being a sequel, viewers are able to watch and understand the story without having seen “The Wrong Trousers.”

The movie overall is worthy of a watch, and while the price of $22.49 is a little high, it is most definitely worth it. Five out of five feathers.