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From some site called Tudum:
Every Wallace & Gromit installment needs a great villain, and the new film is no exception. Titled Vengeance Most Fowl, the latest stop-motion entry follows our favorite inventor and his loyal pooch as they face off against a brand-new chicken opponent — wait a second, he’s removing something from his head. No! It can’t be! That’s no chicken! It’s Feathers McGraw!
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Aardman’s four-time Academy Award-winning director Nick Park and Emmy Award-nominated Merlin Crossingham return with a brand-new epic adventure, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. In this next installment, Gromit’s concern that Wallace is becoming too dependent on his inventions proves justified, when Wallace invents a “smart” gnome that seems to develop a mind of its own. When it emerges that a vengeful figure from the past might be masterminding things, it falls to Gromit to battle sinister forces and save his master … or Wallace may never be able to invent again!
“Returning to Wallace and Gromit is like meeting up with family friends,” Park told Netflix, adding that he thinks fans share that sense of connection. “People respond to them because they feel so familiar. They’re like an old, married couple in some ways, who know each other so well –– it’s a sort of love/hate relationship, but when the chips are down, they are always there for each other. Wallace pushes Gromit’s loyalty to the extreme, and Gromit always wants Wallace to change. It’s something everyone can relate to.”
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The original voice of Wallace, Peter Sallis, passed away in 2017. He’s succeeded by Ben Whitehead, an Aardman stalwart.
Wallace’s loyal canine companion Gromit is, of course, entirely silent, as is Feathers McGraw. Their personalities are entirely teased out by Aardman’s peerless team of stop-motion animators. Other cast members in Vengeance Most Fowl include Peter Kay (reprising his role as PC Mackintosh from Were-Rabbit), Lauren Patel, Reece Shearsmith, Diane Morgan, Adjoa Andoh, Muzz Khan, and Lenny Henry.
Promo trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D--y92inOdU
IMDb page:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17163970/fullcredits/
The never-do-well Penguin was in one of the first Wallace & Gromit shorts, titled: "Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers" (1993):
https://ok.ru/video/4676137454158
The wonderful theme, as well as terrific unreleased score is by Julian Nott, who I desperately would love to score this.
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I wish the music for A Matter of Loaf and Death was available. love Nott's score for that one.
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Doesn't make it better. Nott does not need their help. Lord.
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Of course it makes it better. Some Nott is better than no Nott! But I agree he could and should have been able to do this solo. Were-Rabbit is a fun score though.
Yavar
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But...Balfe worked on Were-Rabbit, Zimmer produced, and the end product was a lot more Balfe than Nott...
I prefer the Nott shorts and haven't listened to WereRabbit for that very reason- too many other compositional voices (so to speak). I prefer Nott's where Wallace & Gromit is concerned.
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Agreed. It’s my least favorite W&G (film and score)… but I still like it, and I’m glad Nott was at least somewhat involved rather than not.
Yavar
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I'm going to take every opportunity (legitimate or otherwise) to express my furious envy that the Brits are going to see the new W&G before the USA. 
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still envious! 
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Nov 21, 2024 - 12:50 PM
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John Mullin
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We caught an early screening of Vengeance Most Fowl the other night... It was okay. W&G hasn’t had the same subversive bite since their masterpiece, Curse Of The Were-Rabbit, for me.
The animation was as excellent as it has ever been, but at the same time, the slickness of it was sort of the problem, you know? It’s better when it’s a little rough around the edges.
Balfe’s score was okay. It sounded like product. It didn’t sound like Julian Nott was that involved, despite his co-composer credit. Nott would kind of go off and write these big, merry, lyrical bits for certain moments of the short films, and this score doesn’t do that. There’s a hint of that, but it’s not as much fun as the score to Were-Rabbit was. There’s a memorable recurring riff on Cape Fear for Feathers McGraw, but that’s about it.
There's a great song the gnomes sing, which Balfe and Nott are both credited on. That one sounds a bit more like Nott than anything else I caught in the movie.
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