Wallace & Grommit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Don't read this if you intend to watch the film unless spoilers don't bother you... Vengeance Most Fowl isn't just a further adventure of Wallace & Gromit. The occasional films about one eccentric inventor and his dog is many things: a perfect festival of visual jokes and film references; a gloriously multicultural production, without wearing that on its sleeve. And a repudiation of technology for its own sake, especially where it inadvertently crushes humanity. And that’s very cool because obviously Aardman Animation’s main method is painstakingly hand-animated plasticine. You can see the fingerprints in the clay, There is little or no CGI and it must take ages, and that makes me feel so happy because the content has to be as close to perfect because you can’t lose confidence in a joke or a routine and quickly redo it. And as before the friendship between the mad scientist Wallace and the single-minded and practical dog Grommit is the heart of it. As before Wallac...