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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 436534" data-attributes="member: 8">Wallace &amp; Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024)[ATTACH=full]58444[/ATTACH]There&#039;s nothing in this film I hadn&#039;t seen before but sometimes it&#039;s the familiarity that makes for a pleasant experience, and there&#039;s a lot of spot-the-tropes going on.I&#039;m not a big fan of the &quot;crazy inventions&quot; slapstick, and the beginning of Wallace &amp; Gromit looked like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on steroids.But there&#039;s also words and language woven into the plot-driven humour, and this is something I usually enjoy - even if it is as on the nose as reporter Onya Doorstep or Cutting Hedge Technology. The evil gnomes are rebooted with real boots, it&#039;s very silly but someone had to come up with the idea.It&#039;s totally predictable and it&#039;s still very funny.The characters are fabulous especially CI Mackintosh and Feathers McGraw who&#039;d do great in 1960s Gotham City (and there&#039;s also that ceremonial public display of a most-wanted diamond which would attract villains like the Joker and Cat Woman).The stop-motion animation proved to be a challenge, but that&#039;s a personal physical problem and not a fault of the art itself.It was a fun and neat &amp; tidy film.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 436534, member: 8"] Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024) [ATTACH type="full"]58444[/ATTACH] There's nothing in this film I hadn't seen before but sometimes it's the familiarity that makes for a pleasant experience, and there's a lot of spot-the-tropes going on. I'm not a big fan of the "crazy inventions" slapstick, and the beginning of Wallace & Gromit looked like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on steroids. But there's also words and language woven into the plot-driven humour, and this is something I usually enjoy - even if it is as on the nose as reporter Onya Doorstep or Cutting Hedge Technology. The evil gnomes are rebooted with real boots, it's very silly but someone had to come up with the idea. It's totally predictable and it's still very funny. The characters are fabulous especially CI Mackintosh and Feathers McGraw who'd do great in 1960s Gotham City (and there's also that ceremonial public display of a most-wanted diamond which would attract villains like the Joker and Cat Woman). The stop-motion animation proved to be a challenge, but that's a personal physical problem and not a fault of the art itself. It was a fun and neat & tidy film. [/QUOTE]

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