Vengeance Most Fowl proves that the 35-year-old franchise hasn't yet lost its cheerful, hilarious touch. The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

Shaun the Sheep fans will have enjoyed spotting a cameo from the farmer of Mossy Bottom Farm in recent outing Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, a film that also included an even briefer cameo from a version of Gromit that’s older than most of the audience would have been.

Vengeance Most Fowl' is the latest addition to the stop-motion franchise but only the second full-length feature

Have you seen this chicken?” asked the wanted poster in “The Wrong Trousers,” the first Wallace & Gromit film to win an Academy Award and the debut of Feathers McGraw, felonious penguin and master of disguise—a red rubber glove on his head was enough for Feathers to pass as poultry,

The new outing comes 16 years after the duo’s last story in A Matter of Loaf and Death, and follows the pair as Wallace’s latest creation, a ‘smart gnome’, gets hacked by villainous penguin Feathers McGraw and wreaks havoc on the community.

Wallace and Gromit” started out as a project in the school notebook of British animation student Nick Park. Slowly but surely, the bald inventor and his cautious

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl has now landed on Netflix in the US, as well as globally outside of the UK on the streaming service. If you missed it at Christmas, the movie is available to watch on BBC iPlayer in the UK following its festive premiere. You won't find it on Netflix if you're in the UK.

The new Wallace & Gromit movie is good for some laughter and entertainment, but there's a subtle, important parody also at work in the film.