Wallace & Gromit review: Another triumph of pure British silliness, fused with pure British genius writes BRIAN VINER

Wallace & Gromit review: Another triumph of pure British silliness, fused with pure British genius writes BRIAN VINER By Brian Viner For The Daily Mail Published: 20:50 EDT, 27 October 2024 | Updated: 20:51 EDT, 27 October 2024 e-mail View comments Rating: Almost two decades have passed since the first feature-length Wallace & Gromit film, 2005’s The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit. So sound trumpets, sing hosannas and, if you’re up to it, turn cartwheels..

. because at long last here’s the second one, and it’s another triumph of pure British silliness, fused with pure British genius. In an era in which you don’t have to do much more than host a TV reality show to be hailed as a national treasure, Nick Park CBE is the genuine article.

And in conceiving and directing Vengeance Most Fowl, the creator of accident-prone, cheese-loving inventor Wallace and his loyal beagle Gromit has excelled even himself. It is a joy. If you have cares, I can all but guarantee that for 79 minutes, this film will wash them clean away.

An unfailingly modest fellow, Park will doubtless try to re-direct the plaudits towards screenwriter Mark Burton and all the brilliant stop-motion animators at Aardman, the Bristol studio where ‘feet of clay’ does not suggest a character flaw, but a month’s hard work. They have excelled themselves, too. Merlin Crossingham and Nick Park, the co-directors of Wallace And Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl The creators of accident-prone, cheese-loving inventor Wallace a.