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Wallace and Gromit achieves incredibly rare Rotten Tomatoes score after smashing Christmas ratings-Pierra Willix-Entertainment – Metro
Critics said the movie was ‘everything you hoped it would be’.
The new film Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl has debuted with an impressive rating (Picture: Netflix/ AP)
The latest Wallace and Gromit film has debuted with an impressive 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
This week, on Christmas Day, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl aired on the BBC.
It was the sixth film following the eccentric inventor and his loyal beagle, with the pair faced with an old foe – penguin Feathers McGraw – who takes revenge on them by reprogramming Wallace’s robotic garden gnome.
After a nearly 20 year wait viewers made it clear they were impressed with the film, praising it after tuning in.
One called it ‘hilarious from start to finish’ while another said it was ‘the best film I’ve seen in a long time’.
It was also the second most-watched programme of the day, attracting a jaw-dropping 9.38 million viewers.
It sees the return of villain Feathers McGraw (Picture: Netflix/ AP)
The movie was a hit with critics too, whose reviews have seen it achieve a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes.
‘Vengeance Most Fowl revisits the tried-and-tested Aardman formula: affable absurdity combined with precision-tooled comic timing and a selection of deliciously silly jokes about cheese,’ The Observer review read.
‘The madcap chaos that unfolds hits all the gleeful highs that this franchise always has, with visual gags coming thick and fast, socked over with the immaculate craft we now take for granted,’ the Daily Telegraph shared.
Meanwhile The Guardian wrote: ‘It’s exciting, ingenious, funny and an unmissable Christmas treat.’
In its review Metro said it was a ‘wonderfully nostalgic film that’s truly worth the years of painstaking work stop-motion animation requires.
Some critics said it was a ‘wonderfully nostalgic film'(Picture: Netflix/ AP)
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‘Marrying the higher stakes and Feathers’ return with firmly sticking to the previous recipe for success makes it everything you hoped it would be.’
Speaking to Metro ahead of the film’s release, creator Nick Park explained the length between Wallace and Gromit’s adventures on the big screen – the last, The Curse o.f the Were-Rabbit, was released in 2005
‘I’ve always had ideas that we’ve been clawing out of my sketchbooks, but we’re always waiting for that special idea that really lands, that can really carry a full-length feature,’ he said.
He added that to get made, the story needed ‘gag potential and story escalation’, while any unused ideas ‘tend to go in a bag of tricks’ in case they’re needed in the future.
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is streaming on BBC iPlayer.
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