Wallace and Gromit " Vengeance Most Fowl (2024) directed by Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham

 

I was about to write about the new Wallace and Gromit short I saw last night but then saw the runtime... 80 minutes! I might have sworn it was 20! The passed so quickly and there was no part that dragged. I think the last film they were was Curse of the Were-rabbit in 2005, 20 years ago and there no sign that the time between projects had any effect at all. Like old friends you can not see them for decades and and when you do its like no time has passed at all, 

I don't think its a spoiler to state that Feather McGraw is the villain as they are in the a lot of preview materials. The farmer from Shaun the sheep makes a brief cameo as well. The basic plot is Wallace has spent too much money on inventions and is behind on paying the bills. His solution is to rent the garden Gnome he made to help  Gromit to neighbours but Feathers McGraw is able to find a way to control the robot and turn their lives upside down while he tries to steal the gemstone out duo got him arrested over in his short film from 1998. 

That bit might have been a little much, introducing an old bad guy from long ago, but it works and they explain the backstory with humour and doesn't let it bog down the new story. 

REALLY GOOD!