Animated comedy film Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is releasing internationally on Netflix tomorrow.
Directed by Merlin Crossingham and Nick Park, who is known for working on the 2000 film Chicken Run and ongoing television series Shaun the Sheep, the film tackles Wallace (voiced by Ben Whitehead,) an inventor from Northern England, who invents a ‘smart gnome’ named Norbot (Reece Shearsmith) that is tasked to help around the house.
However, Wallace’s creation raises the concerns of his pet dog Gromit, who believes his human has become over-dependent on his inventions.
The film, which is the sixth instalment in the Wallace & Gromit franchise and the second feature-length film since 2005’s The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, also marks the return of villainous penguin Feathers McGraw, who plans to take revenge on the two by reprogramming the garden gnome.
“Wallace and Gromit’s world is absurd and that is what it (the film) plays off a lot of the time but I suppose there is some truth to it all, technology has a lot of pros and cons,” Nick said on the film’s plot.
“I always pick up on how a lot of tech can sometimes be quite annoying because some of it seems completely pointless, you have to question is it enhancing your life or is it somehow making it worse?” he added.
The film was created by British animation studio Aardman Animations Limited, which is known for using stop motion and clay animation techniques that are stylistically distinguishable and unique.
Stop motion is an animation technique that involves photographing and physically manipulating the objects, resulting in frames being played in sequence that creates the effect of the object moving itself.
The studio’s debut creation Chicken Run is currently their top-grossing film, and the highest-grossing stop-motion film of all time.
According to the director, the idea for the Wallace and Gromit duo goes back to his time at film school. He had initially planned a man and a cat but later found it easier to make a dog out of clay.
The first instalment in the Wallace & Gromit series, A Grand Day Out (1989), earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film in 1991. In the film, the animated duo run out of cheese, which provides an excellent excuse for them to take their holiday on the moon, where they can have ‘moon cheese’.
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