Wallace & Gromit return in this new adventure, facing a menacing villain and a cunningly disguised foe.
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, Gromit’s reactions have only grown more nuanced by knowing when to hold the course.
Their classic “harried straight dog and good-hearted buffoon” combo persists even as the cartoonish world around them takes small steps towards modernity. Rather than wagging an old fogey finger at a tech-savvy youth, like so much animated fare whose particular Luddite ideas can be boiled down to “maybe if you kids weren’t always on thosedoes boast a bit of tech backlash, but the same kind that has been making its hilariously inefficient inventor look like a dope since the ‘80s—and there’s no better way to gently push back against an overreliance on the artificially generative than through painstakingly handcrafted stop-motion animation. But in the world imagined by Nick Park (who returns to direct here alongside longtime Aardman animator Merlin Crossingham), machines are only a real problem when taken advantage of by bad actors. And the straightfaced McGraw, a menacing penguin who disguises himself as a chicken with perfect fidelity using only a red rubber glove, was sent to zoo-jail by our Claymation heroes infor stealing a diamond. From this silly cell, he plots his revenge, allowing the animators (and writer Mark Burton) to play with both prison-break gags and Bond villain references. Of course, Wallace (Ben Whitehead, doing an exceptional job taking over for the late Peter Sallis) and Gromit are none the wiser. They’re just trying to pay their bills, enjoy some tea, and get a bit of gardening done. But even these debt-addled idealists, trying to make the most out of the simple life, can’t rely on the simple machines of slapstick forever
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