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If you're on this page, you're here for Empire's list of the 26 best kids' movies on Netflix UK — that's what the header promises, and it's what the list that awaits as you scroll down delivers. But for us, it's also a bit of a chance to reconnect with the budding young cinephile within. You see, there’s a unique magic about the films you discover as a child. Whether it’s a fantastical voyage to a wondrous realm, an animated adventure that ignites the imagination, a formative first encounter with a favourite hero or feared villain, or perhaps a poignant coming-of-age tale that helps prepare us to take our first steps into a wider world, of one thing we can be certain — the movies we see when we’re kids stay with us for life.

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Conclave and The Brutalist shared out the major prizes at the 2025 Bafta Film Awards, with four awards each.

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Edward Berger’s Conclave won best film, outstanding British film, adapted screenplay for Peter Straughan and editing.Berger paid tribute to Tessa Ross in his speech, calling her “the best producer I know”.

The momentum seemed to be withThe Brutalist in the closing stretch after Brady Corbet won best director and Adrien Brody collected best actor.Lol Crawley also won for his Cinematography and Daniel Blumberg was rewarded for original score.

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The latest feature film from British stop-motion animation franchise Wallace & Gromit, 2024’s Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Foul, was a big winner at the Feb. 16 BAFTA awards, per Deadline. The movie, which has a perfect 100% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes,took home two trophies at the awards handed out by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Foul, directed by franchise creator Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham with a screenplay by Mark Burton and story by Burton and Park, took home the award in the Best Children’s and Family Film category as well as Best Animated Film. Wallace & Gromit was created by Park back in 1989.

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Aardman Animations latest Wallace & Gromit film Is stunning critics and there are plenty of other Aardman films that fans need to see.

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The final round of Oscar voting has commenced, and in the running for Best Animated Feature is Aardman with their second Wallace and Gromit feature, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. This comes 19 years after Nick Park and Steve Boxput bowties on their statuettes on stage after winning for the inventor-dog duo's first feature adventure, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. It's been 20 years since Wallace got the Hammer horror treatment and turned into a very large were-rabbit who torments their small, sleepy Northern English town by eating all their vegetables. In the time since, we've only seen one short from the Wallace and Gromit franchise, but it was worth the wait. Vengeance Most Fowl, despite needing to cast Ben Whitehead as Wallacedue to the death of the great Peter Sallis, proves this beloved animated world hasn't lost any of its spark.

Netflix is kicking 2025 off in decidedly low-key fashion. By its standards, the streamer’s lineup of film originals in January is surprisingly slight. There are still a few Netflix-exclusive movies worth recommending this month, though, and the service is making up for its slim pickings of originals with a batch of exciting streaming acquisitions that is practically bursting at the seams with modern classics from the past 30 years.

In other words, there are still plenty of options for anyone out there looking to stream the first month of this new year away. For help choosing which movies to watch, here are TheWrap’s picks for the best new movies on Netflix in January.

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One of the only Netflix film originals worth recommending this month, “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” is a playful and kooky stop-motion comedy...

A new year means a batch of new movies on your favorite streaming service, and this month brings a mountain of new releases and originals in addition to terrific library additions. Below we’ve put together a curated list of some of the best new movies streaming on Netflix, Prime Video, Max, Hulu, Paramount+, Peacock and beyond this month, from streaming debuts of some of 2024’s best films to starry rom-coms to a good old fashioned Western.

Check out our list of the best new movies streaming in January below.

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The latest must-see Netflix documentary centers around Bryan Johnson, a tech millionaire who is on an eternal quest to turn back the clock. Chris Smith, the filmmaker behind “Wham” and an executive producer of “Tiger King,” directs the new film, which Netflix says, “dives deep into his psyche,...

Winter weekends were made for staying indoors and watching a good movie; who wants to deal with the cold when they can bundle up with some great entertainment? Of course, with so many streaming services, it can be hard to keep track of what is coming and going, as they don't always clarify what is new to the platform. Or perhaps, in a winter lull, you are considering picking up a new service and want to see what kind of new content they offer.

Here are three major highlights you will want to check out this weekend, followed by some quick picks of old and new films added to major platforms. Grab some tea or coffee, curl up, and enjoy a flick while the cold winter weather passes by!

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We all love it when a classic screen villain makes an unexpected return. That certainly drives “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,” the first Wallace & Gromit feature since 2005’s Oscar-winning “The Curse of the Were-Rabbit” and the first film to feature the beloved characters since 2008’s “A Matter of Loaf and Death”. The villain? Feathers McGraw, the larcenous penguin (disguised as a rooster thanks to a red rubber glove) from 1993’s “The Wrong Trousers,” which, yes, won the Oscar for animated short.

This time around, Feathers frames cuddly inventor Wallace (voiced by Ben Whitehead) and his beloved pooch Gromit for a series of crimes by hacking into the “smart gnome” Wallace has invented, named Norbot.

Director Nick Park said that the central idea for the new film had been hanging around since “Curse of the Were-Rabbit:” “What if Wallace invented a robot gnome to help Gromit in the garden?” The idea,...

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is a tour-de-force from Aardman Studios, but it highlights a vital narrative aspect that previous renditions have practically ignored. Claymation master Nick Park, whose credits include the previous Wallace & Gromit films and classics like Chicken Run, returns to bring his iconic characters to life once again, along with the return of the infamous antagonist, Feathers McGraw. While Feathers McGraw is a criminal mastermind and a danger to public society, the new film also highlights the potential danger of one of its protagonists.

Wallace is a friendly old chap, and Gromit is his loyal canine companion. They've saved the day before and are regarded as local heroes for their previous apprehension of Feathers McGraw. However, the new film sees Wallace, played by Ben Whitehead in Vengeance Most Fowl's cast, with a target on his back after his Norbot inventions start stealing and terrorizing the town.

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is a faithful new installment to a beloved franchise, but it flips a key element that previous movies have used. Claymation maestro Nick Park and Aardman Studios have finally returned with a new Wallace & Gromit movie after nearly two decades, and it's already being celebrated with a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Vengeance Most Fowl's cast includes Ben Whitehead, taking over the role of Wallace from the late Peter Sallis, Lauren Patel, Reece Shearsmith, and more.

The new film picks up with Wallace and Gromit up to their classic activities, though Wallace is worried about paying the bills. His recent inventions haven't panned out, but his neighbors discover that his new AI, Norbot, might be of some use and pay Wallace for his services. However, Norbot ends up set in evil mode, and he uses his work opportunities to steal from Wallace's neighbors. What...

The great Roger Ebert once called Wallace and Gromit “arguably the two most delightful characters in the history of animation,” and who are we to argue with that? Ever since 1989, a Wensleydale cheese-loving inventor and his beloved dog have starred in four short films and two features, every one of these adventures utterly joyous. Without Wallace and Gromit, the great Aardman Animation possibly would’ve never been discovered outside the UK, and arguably stop-motion as a medium might not have ever gotten critical recognition.

Everyone knows the magic trick by now: creator Nick Park builds his sets and character models out of Plasticine modeling clay, adjusting them in every frame to give the illusion of movement. The effect still looks amazing to this day, and the care put into the craft is a huge part of what makes the franchise feel like such a labor of love. But there’s...

Aardman Animations' Wallace and Gromit have stolen audiences' hearts since they debuted in the 1989 stop-motion animated short film, Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out. The Oscar-winning British dog and inventor duo have appeared in multiple short films, plus a feature film, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Now, they have a new feature film streaming on Netflix.

In Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, Wallace introduces a new invention, the Nifty Odd-jobbing Robot, better known as Norbot. However, Wallace and Gromit's old enemy, the penguin Feathers McGraw, wants revenge. Feathers McGraw was introduced in the 1993 short film Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers, where he tried to steal the Blue Diamond. Feathers is now serving time in a zoo, and he hacks the original Norbot to turn evil and create more Norbots.

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"We problem-solve ahead by story-boarding." A series of behind-the-scenes videos have arrived online for Aardman's latest animated movie Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. These promos are also a reminder that this delightful, nerdy, wacky comedy is now available on Netflix worldwide to watch anytime you want. It's a blast! The "world's best boss" – Feathers McGraw – is back with a vengeance.

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl has officially broken a viewership record. The Aardman stop-motion animated feature is the first Wallace & Gromit movie in more than a decade, since the 2008 debut of the short film A Matter of Loaf and Death. It follows Wallace (Ben Whitehead) inventing a "smart gnome" named Norbot (Reece Shearsmith), though its programming turns deadly when it is hacked by his and Gromit's old enemy, the master criminal penguin Feathers McGraw, who originally appeared in the 1993 short film The Wrong Trousers.

On the same day that Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl debuts on Netflix in the United States, TV Zone UK has now confirmed that the movie broke viewership records during its premiere on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Christmas Day. With 9.3 million viewers, it was the second most-watched broadcast across all channels over the holiday in addition to being the second most-watched...

Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson for Wbgr-fm on January 2nd, 2025, reviewing “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” the animated British’s duos latest adventure. Streaming on Netflix starting January 3rd.

Wallace (voice of Ben Whitehead) is an eccentric inventor who lives with his best pal, the silent dog named Gromit. In this adventure, Wallace has invented a Garden Gnome named Norbot (Reece Shearsmith) who takes care of any chore. The duo’s arch enemy, the penguin Feathers McGraw, hacks into the Norbot’s control database from prison, and clones an army of Gnomes, now programmed to be evil. Can Chief Inspector Mackintosh (Peter Kay) and Officer Mukherjee (Lauren Patel) solve the case?

“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” is streaming on Netflix beginning January 3rd. Featuring the voices of Ben Whitehead, Reece Shearsmith, Peter Kay and Lauren Patel. Screenplay by Mark Burton.

The iconic claymation duo is back in Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, with a talented voice cast to bring them to life. The film series, which began with the 1989 animated short A Grand Day Out, is the brainchild of creator Nick Park, who returns as the filmmaker for the latest rendition over thirty years later. Wallace & Gromit movies take ages to make due to the meticulous attention to detail and the difficulty of making claymation films, and it seems even longer in an age where computer effects pump out movies at a rapid pace.

The late Peter Sallis gave his talent to the iconic voice of Wallace in the original Wallace & Gromit movies before passing away in 2017. The new actor, who's voiced the character before in video games, makes his debut as Wallace in film in Vengeance Most Fowl. As usual, Gromit doesn't speak, primarily emoting with facial expressions and gestures,...

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Happy New Year 2025 indeed, since it’s off to a “crackin’ good start’! And you’re no doubt wondering why? Well, premiering just 72 hours after the “ball drop” is the feature film return of one of the most beloved comedy teams on the planet. Now, it’s not another biopic set in Hollywood’s Golden Age ala Stan & Ollie nor a Farrelly Brothers follow-up to The Three Stooges. Mind you this duo has been entertaining audiences for over 35 years, starting with a couple of acclaimed shorts before making their first feature in 2017. Oh, did I not mention that they’re animated characters, rendered in clay? From “across the pond” it’s their full-length adventure from the artists of Aardman Animations Limited, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. Put the kettle on and bring out the cheese…

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With the new year comes new entries into streaming platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and more. From originals to films that Netflix has acquired for distribution to just old films that find a place on the streaming platform, it balances its slate each year. This month there are quite a few films from each category that will make it to Netflix screens.

A couple of classics are set to be available on the streaming platform from January 1. Films like 13 Going on 30, Dallas Buyers Club, Interstellar, Inception, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Erin Brockovich, Notting Hill, the Rush Hour franchise, and the Spider-Man trilogy from Sam Raimi are set to be available on Netflix. There are a few originals in the pipeline too.

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Talk about a week with something truly for everyone, the last week of December features a variety of options – from a new Harlan Coben-based Netflix series (“Missing You”), a documentary about a weirdo millionaire who wants to be 18 again (“Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever” on Netflix) and a brand-new Wallace and Gromit movie (“Vengeance Most Fowl” on Netflix). That and so much more. Like we said – something for everyone.

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Netflix’s latest Harlan Coben adaptation, following “Stay Close,” “Fool Me Once” and “The Stranger,” takes inspiration from his 2014 novel “Missing You.” Interestingly, the action has been transported from New York City to England (filming took place in and around Manchester and the North West of England), with a detective (Rosalind Eleazar) who gets involved...

Wallace & Gromit creator Nick Park has confirmed the new movie Vengeance Most Fowl is “not the end”. The franchise is returning for its first feature-length installment since 2005’s The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

The stop-motion animated movie serves as a direct sequel to the 1993 short The Wrong Trousers, featuring the return of classic villain Feathers McGraw. Vengeance Most Fowl is also the first new Wallace & Gromit feature film since the death of original Wallace voice actor Peter Sallis in 2017 – with veteran voice actor Ben Whitehead taking over the role. In this long-awaited sequel, Gromit grows concerned with Wallace’s obsession with technology when he invents a “smart gnome” that soon develops a mind of his own. Wallace and Gromit discover that their old nemesis Feathers McGraw may be the mastermind behind the invention-gone-awry and must stop him from misusing the technology for nefarious means.

Vengeance Most Fowl Marks a New...

One of the irresistible charms of Wallace And Gromit for many fans is not just that they are quintessentially British but that they are unmistakably northern. In a cinematic landscape dominated by Hollywood and bigger UK cities, it's a champion idea, those from the right neck of the woods might say. It's not just that Preston-born Nick Park (here directing with Merlin Crossingham and writing with Mark Burton) leans into it but that he does so with pride, secure in the knowledge that there are so many jokes of different sorts being made that if some of the references go over the heads of some audiences it will scarcely matter in the bigger scheme of things.

And scheming, of course, is what Wallace And Gromit films rest on, even if the hapless inventor (now voiced by Ben Whitehead since the death of much loved original vocalist Peter Sallis) isn't very good.

The creator of Aardman’s Wallace & Gromit has said this is “certainly not the end” for everyone’s favorite stop-motion duo, as he pays tribute to the late Peter Sallis on the eve of their latest outing.

“It’s certainly not the end,” Nick Park told the BBC. “I think there’s plenty of bounce still in their bungee. We’ll carry on. There’s always ideas worth kicking about.”

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl director Merlin Crossingham, however, stressed: “Give us a minute though. They take a while to make.”

Vengeance Most Fowl launches on Christmas Day on the BBC and early next year on Netflix. In a nod to the dangers of AI, the feature will see Wallace and Gromit’s friendship put to the test by the former’s invention of a smart gnome called Norbot, who takes on a life of his own, wreaking havoc in the process.

Fewer new openings but important ones for the indie world as the year soon to close welcomes the trio of Brady Corbet’s much-nominated The Brutalist with Adrien Brody, Pedro Almodovar’s first English outing The Room Next Door starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, and a new rendition of revenge thriller The Count Of Monte Cristo. All three are starting in limited release.

Aardman Animations’ latest, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, is a lighter note in a handful of theaters ahead of its Netflix debut.

The Brutalist opens in four theaters in New York and LA with 70mm and Imax special engagements including Q&a’s with Corbet, co-writer Monda Fastvold and cinematographer Lol Crawley, notable for using large format VistaVision cameras in the film, which expands in January.

Corbet’s third feature centers on László Toth (Brody) a Brutalist architect...

The full spectrum of human experience fits into the curve of Gromit’s brow. The silent Plasticine pooch has been squinting, face-palming, and rolling his eyes at his companion Wallace’s (relatively) harmless Heath Robinson contraptions for three decades. As that rube’s Goldberg machines have evolved from The Wrong...

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It’s been 19 years since Wallace and Gromit’s first full-length animated film, Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, hit screens, and finally, we’re treated to their follow-up, Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. Hugely creative and hilarious, Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Foul is an animated crime caper, filled with witty dialogue and charming characters. With stunning visuals and quirky charm, the film’s incredibly detailed stop-motion animation brings Wallace and Gromit’s world to life.

The movie begins with the always positive inventor Wallace (voiced by Ben Whitehead) creating a “smart” gnome (voiced by Reece Shearsmith) named Norbot to help his old pal and best dog Gromit with his gardening. To say that Gromit is not excited about this little change would be a gross understatement. He watches in shock as the gnome speeds around, cutting the grass with a mower,...

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl follows the beloved inventor Wallace and his loyal dog Gromit as they embark on a new adventure. Wallace, with the best of intentions, has created a Norbot to help Gromit with his gardening tasks. It isn't long before things go completely awry and a past foe, Feathers McGraw, reenters the picture.

Nick Park first introduced the characters Wallace and Gromit in 1989 with the release of the stop-motion animated short film A Grand Day Out. The duo's previous feature-length film, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, won Best Animated Feature Film in 2006. There is already a lot of awards buzz surrounding Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, with it bringing in several nominations from critics groups.

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Disney’s “Moana 2” stayed atop the U.K. and Ireland box office for the third consecutive weekend with £3.6 million ($4.5 million), bringing its cumulative total to £26.4 million ($33.5 million), according to numbers from Comscore.

Universal’s “Wicked” continued to demonstrate staying power in second place, adding £3.4 million in its fourth week for a robust £43.6 million total. Paramount’s “Gladiator II” rounded out the top three with £918,256, pushing its five-week total to £28.4 million. Studiocanal’s “Paddington in Peru” held steady in fourth place, collecting £821,657 for a six-week cumulative of £30.2 million.

Sony’s new entry “Kraven the Hunter” opened in fifth with £686,806. Black Bear’s sixth placed “Conclave” gathered £554,970 in its third week for a £4 million total, while Warner Bros.’ newcomer “Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” debuted in seventh position with £483,583.

Mubi’s “Queer” launched with £293,040 in eighth place, as Warner Bros.’ “Red One,” in ninth position, added £259,405 in...

In “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,” director Nick Park finally explores the unhealthy consequences of Wallace’s obsession with tech invention, which nearly wrecks his friendship with beagle pal Gromit. For the first time, they face an existential crisis after Wallace’s “smart gnome,” Norbot, runs amok as an AI nightmare, thanks to mastermind penguin nemesis, Feathers McGraw (back from “The Wrong Trousers” short).

“There’s always been tension in how Gromit gets on with Wallace, but we’ve never had an arc for Wallace [Ben Whitehead],” Park told IndieWire. “It’s always been a joke that he never learns anything. It’s always inventing to make life easier or better, creating an invention to give Gromit a pat, when all he really wants is a loving pat from Wallace.

“Sort of the last straw is creating Norbot to help with the gardening,” continued Park, who shared directing duties with Merlin Crossingham.

Nick Park’s Wallace & Gromit series debuted in 1989 with the Oscar-nominated “A Grand Day Out” and since then has grown into a multimedia franchise and a staple of British pop culture, at once relaxing in its wry sense of humor and dazzling in its deceptively complex, propulsive animation. Like all the entries in the series, the short that started it all centers on eccentric, cheese-loving inventor Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis until 2010 and Ben Whitehead thereafter) and his intelligent but incredibly expressive dog, Gromit. Inevitably, Wallace devises a convoluted, Rube Goldberg-esque new project that goes wrong in some way, necessitating Gromit’s intervention to save them both from disaster.

The extremity of both Wallace’s genius and inanity is evident in everything from his ability to build a functioning rocket out of household items to his desire to use said vessel to go to the moon on the belief...

The Pokémon Company International and Aardman Animations have announced a special project coming to audiences in 2027. The collaboration will see Aardman bringing its unique style of storytelling to the Pokémon universe in brand-new adventures.

Taito Okiura, VP of Marketing and Media at The Pokémon Company International, commented, “This is a dream partnership for Pokémon. Aardman are masters of their craft, and we have been blown away by their talent and creativity. What we have been working on together ensures our global Pokémon fans are in for a treat!”

Sean Clarke, Managing Director of Aardman, added, “It’s a huge honour to be working with The Pokémon Company International — we feel sincerely privileged to be trusted with bringing their characters and world to life in a brand-new way. Bringing together Pokémon, the world’s biggest entertainment brand, together with our love of craft, character and comedic storytelling feels incredibly exciting.

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The holiday-packed end of the year means, for many, ample time spent in the company of family. Invariably, football scores will be checked, weird cousins will be avoided, conversations will turn to old stories told repeatedly as though for the first time, and, of course, movies will be watched. For those who've already got Christmas on the brain (reasonably acceptable as early as Thanksgiving), classics such as Gremlins, Bad Santa, and all the others will serve as white noise behind familial chatter, wrapping themselves like boughs of holly to memories old and new. Sensing unrelenting sameyness, Netflix threw a new flavor into the rotation with Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. Premiering publicly in the UK on Christmas Day on BBC One and on January 3 on Netflix, the new crumpet-crunching claymation wonder is sure to become a new end-of-year staple.

That being said, Vengeance Most Fowl is not actually tied to Christmas.

IndieWire recently traveled to Aardman Animations in Bristol, England, during the last week of shooting “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,” the stop-motion studio’s second animated feature from its flagship franchise. Netflix, which dropped a new trailer (see below), has qualified the film for Best Animated Feature Oscar consideration ahead of its streaming premiere on January 3, 2025.

In the latest buddy comedy adventure, eccentric, cheese-loving inventor Wallace (Ben Whitehead) creates a “smart gnome” named Norbot (Reece Shearsmith) to make gardening chores easier for his pooch pal, Gromit. However, the gnome improvement becomes an AI nightmare, thanks to old foe Feathers McGraw (from the Oscar-winning short “The Wrong Trousers”).

IndieWire visited the puppet department to learn about the latest Aardman advancements from creative lead Anne King, spoke to animator Will Becher about a difficult breakfast scene between the two pals, took a peek at a sinister set with cinematographer Dave Alex Reddit,...

"He's a household gnome! What could possibly go wrong?" Netflix has revealed the full official trailer trailer for Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, a new Wallace & Gromit animated movie ready to watch soon. It premiered at AFI Fest in LA last month. The "world's best boss" – Feathers McGraw – is back with a vengeance. A brand new epic Wallace & Gromit family adventure from Aaardman, the first full length W&g feature film in 19 years since BAFTA & Academy Award-winning The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. The film focuses on Gromit's concern that Wallace has become over-dependent on his inventions, which 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 the sinister forces and save his master. With the voices of Ben Whitehead, Peter Kay,...

Hold onto your crackers, folks — Feathers McGraw is back back back! Now yes, we have known of the felonious fake fowl's return for some time now; his dastardly mugshot adorned the first teaser trailer for Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, the feature-length comeback of everyone's favourite dog-and-his-man duo. But now, with the release of the latest trailer for Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham's new Aardman Animation, we've got our first proper look at the beady-eyed villainy that awaits. Check it out below... if you dare:

Feathers McGraw is out of the clink — and out for revenge — in this new, lengthier look at what Park and Crossingham have been calling the world's first 'Gnome Noir'. And it looks like Wallace's (Ben Whitehead) latest invention, smart gnome Norbot (Reece Shearsmith), is the eminently hackable and blissfully unaware lynchpin of McGraw's newest bird-brained scheme. With his slightly-too-cute grin and gently menacing voice,...

Netflix has revealed the official trailer and posters for Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, the new stop-motion animated comedy film by Aardman Animations. The film will be available on Netflix (excluding the UK) on January 3, 2025.

The movie will premiere on 25 December 2024 on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK. It has been rated PG by the MPA for some action and rude humor.

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 new 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…...

2025 is shaping up to movie sequels, as studios continue building on successful franchises. Following an impressive lineup in 2024 with blockbusters like Furiosa, Joker: Folie Deux, and The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, 2025 will continue the trend, bringing even more beloved characters back to the big screen.

Among the most highly anticipated releases are Avatar: Fire and Ash, which returns to the immersive world of Pandora, and Captain America: Brave New World, as Anthony Mackies Sam Wilson takes on the mantle of Captain America in one of the McU's upcoming films. Meanwhile, Tron: Ares aims to revive the iconic digital realm, and Zootopia 2 will reunite fans with Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde. 2025 will also see new installments from family-friendly franchises, including Paddington in Peru, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, and The Bad Guys 2.

Five Nights at Freddys 2 promises another round of terror in the horror franchise,...

After many years, a staple of the animation world is being revived thanks to the release of Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, Aardman Animation's latest stop-motion effort centered around the beloved duo. This is the first Wallace & Gromit movie to release since 2008's A Matter of Loaf and Death, and also the first to feature new Wallace actor Ben Whitehead, with him taking over from the late Peter Sallis. Understandably, expectations are high, and directors Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham are aiming high with a story that is both timely and looking back at the series' past.

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Director Merlin Crossingham, Nick ParkRelease Date October 27, 2024Writers Nick Park, Mark BurtonCast Muzz Khan, Maya Sondhi, Diane Morgan, Ben Whitehead, Adjoa Andoh, Peter Kay, Lenny Henry, Lauren Patel, Garth Jennings, Reece ShearsmithCharacter(s) Mrs. Gazebo, Inspector Mackintosh, Norbot, Zookeeper, WallaceRating PGRuntime 70 MinutesGenres Animation, Comedy, Adventure

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Plot: 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!

Review: Few words bring as much joy when paired together as Wallace & Gromit. Since they debuted in the 1989 short film A Grand Day Out, the cheese-loving duo have been the benchmark for claymation films and have inspired countless directors and animators. After three short films released through the mid-nineties, Aardman Animation’s signature creations were not seen until the 2005 feature film The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. With an all-star cast including Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter, that film won the...

Fans have waited patiently for the latest Wallace and Gromit adventure, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, and it looks like our patience has very much paid off. Netflixs new Wallace and Gromit outing continues a coveted trend held by few franchises, with Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl joining previous outings Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers, Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out, and Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave in achieving a perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. While the 2005 movie Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit didn't quite reach perfection, it still managed to achieve a hugely impressive 95%.

David Opie of Radio Times awards Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl a perfect score of 5/5 and calls the movie as sharp as cheddar.

With a script as sharp as cheddar and a voice cast to match, the movie's lean 79-minute runtime flies by faster than you'd like, but only because it's so good.

Nick Park and the stop-motion, claymation masters at Aardman Animations are back with a new Wallace & Gromit feature that rivals their best Oscar-winning films. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl will have audiences laughing hysterically at the return of a diabolical villain and his dastardly plan for fiendish retribution. Hide your valuables, folks. Feathers McGraw, the infamous criminal mastermind penguin, first seen in The Wrong Trousers, has again donned his rubber glove hat in a comical tale of technology gone awry. Our lovable protagonists learn the hard way that machine dependence isn't all it's cracked up to be.

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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl follows the beloved inventor Wallace and his loyal dog Gromit as they embark on a new adventure to uncover the mystery behind a series of poultry-related incidents in their town. Amid the chaos, they encounter unexpected...

The first reviews are in for Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, the long-awaited sequel fans didn't know they needed, and it could be the best reviewed movie in the entire stop-motion franchise. Vengeance Most Fowl sees Wallace and his trusty canine side-kick, Gromit, return for a fifth feature film outing, and their first movie since The Curse of the Were-Rabbit way back in 2005. After a nearly 20-year hiatus, fans were worried the new sequel would meet the same fate as 2023's Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, which received mixed reviews from fans and critics. But, Aardman appears to be back in top form with the return of the cheese-loving duo.

At the time of writing, only 7 reviews have been submitted to Rotten Tomatoes, but these early opinions promise a great fifth outing for Wallace & Gromit. Of the seven reviews, all of them gave near-perfect scores. Could Vengeance Most Fowl...

For over three decades now, adventure and hijinks have followed Wallace and his loyal dog Gromit wherever they go. From mistaken identities to misunderstood science experiments, the duo’s earnest attempts to enjoy a quiet life in their quaint little town are consistently disrupted by unexpected catastrophe. Through it all, their strong bond and good humor have won fans around the world and cemented Wallace & Gromit as icons of animation.

Now in their latest outing, Wallace’s tinkering with technology again leads them toward trouble. Hoping to lend Gromit a helping paw in the garden, Wallace invents Norbot, a chipper robotic gnome. But a familiar foe isn’t finished with the pair just yet. Imprisoned penguin Feathers McGraw lurks, still eager to enact vengeance for past defeats. Spying an opportunity through Norbot, Feathers launches a dastardly plot that puts Wallace and Gromit’s friendship to the test.

Fans will be...

A scoundrel from Wallace and Gromit’s past resurfaces in “Vengeance Most Fowl,” causing fresh trouble for the eccentric English inventor and his underappreciated canine. As the spiffy sequel’s play-on-word title implies, the culprit is none other than Feathers McGraw, that diamond-thieving master of disguise last seen in 1993’s Oscar-winning short “The Wrong Trousers,” who seizes on another of Wallace’s inventions to engineer his escape from the local zoo in the stop-motion duo’s second feature in as many decades.

Watching Wallace and Gromit, you get the sense that the pair’s life is quite bland — as if they’ve passed the last 16 years (that’s how long it’s been since “A Matter of Loaf and Death”) enjoying a low-key routine of cheese and toast from the comfort of their home at 62 West Wallaby St. A little commotion could do them good, and while it’s clear...

Sometimes I think we put too much pressure on Aardman Animation. They’re the filmmakers who brought us “Wallace and Gromit,” “Chicken Run,” “Arthur Christmas” and “Shaun the Sheep,” so they have a very long legacy of high-quality and hilarious movies. Even their underwhelming films, like “Flushed Away,” aren’t nearly as bad as the worst movies made by their competitors. So we expect Aardman — like we expect Studio Ghibli (or like we used to expect Pixar) — to knock it out of the park every single time, and that’s not fair. They’re only human. It would be no great tragedy if the long-awaited, second feature-length “Wallace and Gromit” movie wasn’t very good.

Fortunately, the long-awaited, second feature-length “Wallace and Gromit” movie is great. So that whole first paragraph was just a big misdirect and I apologize. (It kind of got away from me.)

“Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl...

It’s been 31 years since Feathers McGraw, the silent, Arsène Lupin-esque penguin from Nick Park’s “The Wrong Trousers,” was caught trying to steal a certain diamond from a city museum. Confined to 10 years of imprisonment inside the city zoo, he’s now back in Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham’s Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl and out for revenge.

Evincing the charm and splendiferously droll humor that’s endeared Wallace and Gromit to audiences since 1989’s “A Grand Day Out,” the film is reliably uncomplicated in its plotting. In the nearly two decades since our titular duo’s last feature outing, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, societal reliance on smart technology has only ballooned. And, it seems, so has that of the mild-mannered Wallace (Ben Whitehead). Indeed, the eccentric, cheese-obsessed inventor has grown so addicted to building contraptions that he’s become blind to Gromit’s needs and desires,...

It’s all about the fingerprints. Stop-motion animation intrinsically calls attention to its creation — the time-intensive nature of the process, the sheer amount of labor built into the design, the communal strength necessary for any project to come to fruition. The fingerprints left by filmmaker Nick Park and his comrades at Aardman Animation on the clay figures of their flagship duo Wallace and Gromit are visual proof of the tactility inherent in their construction. Because they were molded by hand, every adventure they embark upon—or, more accurately, every Wallace-related scrape from which Gromit helps them escape—has a personal touch that radiates from the screen.

In “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,” the duo’s second feature-length film, Park and co-director Merlin Crossingham juxtaposes humanity — the kind that brought the eponymous inventor and beagle to life — against technology run amok. The contraptions that the eccentric Wallace crafted were always faulty,...

It has been 19 long years between the first Wallace & Gromit feature in 2005 and now the second in 2024, but it is an understatement to say it was well worth the wait. Nick Park’s and Aardman’s delightful buddy movie, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is an animated film noir merged with the dangers of technology running rampant. Park created this franchise with his 1990 short, A Grand Day Out, and has been going strong with shorts and half-hour specials ever since for W & G. The first feature, Wallace & Gromit: Curse Of The Were-Rabbit was one of the earliest Oscar winners when the feature animation category was established, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see history repeat itself again this year. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is a complete delight that delivers exactly what we had hoped it would – and then some.

In this movie, Wallace (now voiced by...

The thing about making a new Wallace & Gromit film is that it’s going to be compared to all the other films featuring the Northern inventor and his considerably brighter dog — a nearly unimprovable run of distinctly British delights. The good news is that this effort, featuring the return of villainous penguin Feathers McGraw from The Wrong Trousers, doesn’t let the side down, even if it doesn’t raise us to new heights either.

As we rejoin them, Wallace (voiced again to good effect by Ben Whitehead after the loss of Peter Sallis) has let his inventing run amok, outsourcing even dog-petting to one of his Rube Goldbergian devices. Gromit is fed up even before the overdue bills arrive, but Wallace has a plan: he will rent out his latest invention, a ‘smart gnome’ called Norbot (Reece Shearsmith), to pay the bills. Unfortunately, somewhere across town, the silent but...

The Wallace And Gromit movies are thoroughly charming affairs. Following the wacky adventures of the eccentric inventor Wallace and his lovable pooch Gromit, the series has become one of the most beloved British properties. Its continued success is impressive considering how A Grand Day Out originally began life as a university project, before the Bristol stop-motion studio Aardman Animations noticed the short's potential, and hired its producer Nick Park to finish the piece. Wallace & Gromit has become a critically acclaimed animated franchise, having won three Oscars to date.

Wallace & Gromit is set to return for their latest escapade, Vengeance Most Fowl. Debuting on Christmas Day on BBC1 in the UK and January 3rd internationally on Netflix, it promises to be a must-watch film over the festive period. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl will be an "emotional" journey for longtime fans, according to Nick Park, who is returning to direct the movie.

Wallace y Gromit regresan con una nueva aventura en Netflix. © Netflix

Netflix ha publicado el primer tráiler y póster de Wallace y Gromit: La venganza se sirve con plumas.

En Wallace y Gromit: La venganza se sirve con plumas, Gromit está preocupado por la excesiva dependencia que Wallace está desarrollando hacia sus inventos. Una preocupación que demuestra estar del todo justificada cuando Wallace crea un gnomo «inteligente» que parece tener voluntad propia. Cuando se descubre que una figura vengativa del pasado podría estar detrás de todo, Gromit tendrá que luchar contra fuerzas siniestras para salvar a su dueño y evitar que Wallace pierda para siempre la capacidad de inventar.

Dirigida por Nick Park (Chicken Run: Evasión en la granja), ganador de cuatro premios Óscar, y Merlin Crossingham (Morph), nominado a los Emmy, esta nueva entrega en stop-motion cuenta con un reparto de voces formado por Ben Whitehead (¡Piratas!), Peter Kay...