The latest screenplay was written by Nick Park and Mark Burton, based on a story by and directed by Park and Merlin Crossingham. The film world premiered in the fall at AFI Fest, aired on the BBC on Christmas Day and debuted on Netflix on January 3.

Vengeance Most Fowl have a distinctly British sensibility, so they went over most American audiences’ heads. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, in which the villainous Feathers McGraw comes back into Wallace and Gromit’s lives for a nefarious revenge scheme,

For over a decade, we've been in a Wallace & Gromit drought. It's been 16 years since the franchise's last short, A Matter of Loaf and Death, and 19 since its first feature film, the Academy Award–winning Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. That's a long time to be apart from two of Britain's greatest treasures.

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

Vengeance Most Fowl is the latest film in the beloved stop-motion animation series. This time, clueless inventor Wallace and his long-suffering pooch Gromit are dealing with Wallace's latest invention,

Nick Park’s beloved pair faces off against the dastardly penguin Feathers McGraw in this stop-motion feature.

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.

Vengeance Most Fowl's saddest element has been explored in previous adventures, underscoring the franchise's biggest themes.