Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): January 3, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Universal acclaim based on 31 Critic Reviews
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90
We Got This CoveredCharlotte SimmonsJan 6, 2025
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is supremely sincere, warmly witty, and laugh-out-loud funny. And really, what else did you expect? Read full review
90
The New York TimesManohla DargisJan 3, 2025
While I don’t remember seeing any fingerprints dotting their forms this time around, the tender care that went into fashioning each of Wallace’s toothy expressions and Gromit’s quizzically raised brow remains palpable. The love, well, that you feel, too. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesCarlos AguilarDec 19, 2024
Sight gags baked into the production design (the books the Gromit reads or the signs that populate the sets) and gnome puns aplenty make for a ride in which every frame packs a dense layer of comedy, at times conspicuous, others not so much. Read full review
90
Screen RantRachel LaBonteNov 1, 2024
The animators bring this world to life with expert skill. Read full review
90
Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganOct 28, 2024
The pace, the jokes – never over-stressed – the score and even the sight-gags (such as Gromit reading Virginia Woof) all combine to produce a film which is delightfully light on its paws. Read full review
90
IGNRyan GaurOct 28, 2024
Using familiar characters to tell a new story with fresh gags and supreme animation, Vengeance Most Fowl stands shoulder to shoulder with some of Aardman’s best work. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeOct 28, 2024
Vengeance Most Fowl is a brisk and well-paced escapade, in which Gromit proves himself to still be one of our best screen actors and Wallace’s absentminded behavior still endears. Read full review
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The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldJan 3, 2025
The movie’s a playful commentary on overdependence on technology — Wallace has machines that bathe him, dress him and make his tea — but it’s also just fast-paced fun, and you look forward to watching it a second time to catch the sight gags you missed. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoDec 25, 2024
Built on a foundation of comedy that comes from the silent era, “Vengeance Most Fowl” is just beautifully structured, a perfect rhythm of plotting and humor that works for all ages. Read full review
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Paste MagazineJim VorelJan 2, 2025
All in all, Vengeance Most Fowl casts a wide net–calculated as a return to the franchise that is clever enough for adults and charming and broad enough for kids, regardless of whether they have any familiarity at all with its characters. Read full review
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TheWrapWilliam BibbianiOct 28, 2024
It’s got great heroes, a memorable villain, and more whimsy than is probably recommended by medical science. Which is to say, just the right amount of whimsy. Read full review
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The A.V. ClubJack SmartDec 19, 2024
Just as warm-hearted, bouncy, goofy, and unassumingly sharp as ever, the film makes the case that no matter how close Wallace and his out-of-time village get to our digitized reality, long-suffering Gromit will be there to provide grounding glares—and remind us to take a moment to pet your dog. Read full review
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Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonJan 3, 2025
Despite the “improvements” to the animation technique, there remains a purity to Wallace & Gromit. In fact, the most endearing aspects of the series are its links to silent comedy. And dogs, naturally. And penguins. Read full review
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The Daily BeastNick SchagerJan 3, 2025
Funny and charming as ever, it’s a welcome cinematic reprise for the British icons, even if this latest outing is slight enough to suggest that it might have been perfectly fine as a short. Read full review
80
Little White LiesHannah StrongDec 28, 2024
It’s a cosy, classic Aardman treat, perfect for Wallace and Gromit fans of any age – and Feathers McGraw remains as menacing as ever. Read full review
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Saffron MaeveDec 25, 2024
Vengeance Most Fowl is a cozy return to form that plaits together its own laboured conception and our mechanized conditions in order to enliven its signature duo among the youth of today. Read full review
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The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeDec 21, 2024
The latest feature from the Bristol-based animation studio is an absolute delight. Read full review
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Christian Science MonitorStephen HumphriesDec 21, 2024
“Vengeance Most Fowl” encapsulates everything that makes “Wallace & Gromit” movies such a joy for children and adults. Its humor is unabashedly silly, yet slyly clever. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawDec 18, 2024
It’s exciting, ingenious, funny and an unmissable Christmas treat. Read full review
80
Time OutPhil de SemlyenOct 28, 2024
It’s the two characters with no dialogue at all, Gromit and Feathers, who steal the show – a pair of silent cinema-style adversaries sparring in another joyfully Aardman nostalgic caper. Read full review
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The TimesEd PottonOct 28, 2024
The fun, as ever, comes from a mix of familiarity and ingenuity. Read full review
80
iNick DuerdenOct 28, 2024
It is, all of it, glorious knockabout nonsense, a visual joy for kids, and exquisitely detailed for adults. Read full review
80
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyOct 28, 2024
Vengeance Most Fowl sees Aardman return to their tried-and-tested formula. Yet, it’s also the source of the studio’s continuing brilliance – somehow, the familiar always feels new, and the craftwork never tires. Read full review
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EmpireHelen O'HaraOct 28, 2024
It’s delightful to see these characters again, particularly the long-suffering Gromit, and if the jokes don’t come quite as thick and fast as before, the beating heart beneath the clay remains intact. Read full review
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VarietyPeter DebrugeOct 28, 2024
It’s a delight to find these two, plus their penguin nemesis, back on the big screen. Read full review
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The GuardianCatherine ShoardOct 28, 2024
There is comfort and joy in the routine and delight in the details. Not just the thumb-smudges and dusty crockery (Wallace has become so reliant on smart tech that he keeps pressing the teapot lid, befuddled, in hope of a cuppa), but the more startling flights of fancy. Read full review
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ColliderAidan KelleyOct 28, 2024
The timeless style, the gorgeous animation, and the impeccable music make Wallace & Gromit's second feature film a gleeful experience from start to finish. It doesn't reinvent the wheel or do something particularly bold and unique like The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, but it also isn't really trying to. This is a straightforward family-friendly adventure that is simply effective and effectively simple. Read full review
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Movie NationRoger MooreJan 3, 2025
As amusing as Wallace’s sputtered reactions to their predicaments always are, as cute as the work song the singing gnomes compose might be — “We break out little backs, and never stop to have a brew ’cause we’ve got battery packs!” — it’s the parade of sight gags that sell these clay-animated comic jewels. Read full review
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San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonJan 2, 2025
Clocking in at a mere 79 minutes, featuring plenty of laughs and climaxing with a rousing chase, “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” is an impressive feat of clay, a winning choice in a competitive animated holiday season. Read full review
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IndieWireVikram MurthiOct 28, 2024
Vengeance Most Fowl updates the look of Wallace and Gromit’s established world by combining classical craft and cutting-edge tools to fit the modern era. While the results are seamless (Aardman Animation never phones in the work) and the cheeky comic tone remains the same, it inevitably calls attention to the loss of something intimate and handcrafted that was previously part of the infrastructure. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineGregory NussenOct 28, 2024
There’s an alive-ness that emanates from the characters, in large part due to all those visible fingerprints and indentations on their skins—a tactile counterbalance to a story about humanity’s over-reliance on technology. Read full review
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