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Wallace & Gromit: The Great Fowl’s Revenge is a rare departure from popular British films, so that, unlike the classics that have introduced new characters and familiar stories, it is the first to engage Wallace and Gromit‘s archive. Continued resume of The Wrong Pants‘ Feather McGraw, the film, is sometimes harmful, in communication with what has come before it – which means that when it comes to its execution, you can’t help but draw what can be an indisputable comparison between the new film. and what came before.
Mainly because what came before it is one of the biggest sequels to ever happen to a show, small or otherwise. The Wrong Pants‘ the final chase – where Wallace and Gromit chase Feather and the evil penguin/chicken/gangster’s stolen diamond on the train the two have built around their house to send mail and other things around – is a master of finance. is a comedy that is still loved more than 30 years after it first aired. Success, filmmaking, quick thinking, willingness to accept the absurdity of everything because all the characters of the film are all. normally dedicated to the small, technical marvel in the management of all of these are stop-motion techniques: they are perfect, and unchanging in their size, yet their depth and their craftsmanship.
So when The Great Revenge of the Birdslike all good things Wallace and Gromit stories do, end with the chase—and I’m chasing Wallace, Gromit, and Feather McGraw—you’re already setting yourself up for lost hope. Undoubtedly, it doesn’t matter that directors Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham had their hands covered in clay Retaliation they could not match what had happened before. Very similar, and like some of the films before, it feels more like a historical record than a stand-alone one. Very different—perhaps, frighteningly, too bigobsessed with being shown the idea of his character’s superiority—and he enters in the hope that it will still come as the second joke of the artful pursuit of the chase, no matter how good.
It’s good then The Great Revenge of the Birds‘s climax has its cake and eats it too. The movie is about the final chase as the Feathers – after turning Wallace’s new, military unit. smart “Norbot” garden gnomesagainst him and arresting both the master, the pooch, and the original Norbot – he escapes with the legendary Blue Diamond that he tried to move all those years ago, starting the final episode that sees Wallace, Gromit, and Norbot start the chase. in a car (well, in an office driver’s seat), and then a canal boat. Already, there are interesting parallels The Wrong Pants here: the chase all start in the same way, even with the same conversation as Wallace and Feather meet. There is a difference between chasing a high-speed train and a slow-moving boat. That The Wrong Pants he rejoices in his banishment, The Great Revenge of the Birds luxuriates (the whole sequence is about eight minutes to the last ending, compared to The Wrong Pants‘ comes in at least three minutes later). The former is less conversational (leaning on Julian Nott’s music to set the mood), save for Wallace’s occasional moments, while the latter is friendly and funny.
And yes, that and big. There are episodes within the play, jokes within jokes. The Great Revenge of the BirdsThe chase has the space and width to make and fall in its movement, it has the opportunity to rest compared to The Wrong Pants‘fast speed respectively. But within that great part, The Great Revenge of the Birdsthe pursuit of conformity adds something more than the dimension of “bigger and better”: the very heart itself The Wrong Pants‘ chasing there is no time for crying. The The Wrong Pants Chase and action: Wallace and Gromit have to stop Feather, so they chase him and stop him. The Great Revenge of the BirdsThe chase is supposed to set the tone for the emotional rift that has grown between the two throughout the film, as Wallace’s thought process has left Gromit feeling alienated from his best friend.
This is done, in part, through gags—Gromit admits to Wallace’s love for making Macgyver install a boot-ballista that he uses to stop Norbot’s Feathered army in the middle, and the police who are pursuing both groups are temporarily assisted. Feathers quickly turn into a habit of a helpful nun as a cover (“that’s just innocent. nun, go have fun,” she says Peter Kay Mackintosh’s PCa perfect line of dialogue). But it’s also a moment where Wallace and Gromit realize how much they care for each other, and how far each of them is willing to go to make sure the other is safe, more than to stop the Feather from killing them both. This all pays off in the final moments, when Wallace is willing to take the blame for Feather’s mistakes if it means saving Gromit from impending doom, but that moment of emotional catharsis is helped throughout.
It is an additional layer that you create The Great Revenge of the Birdsclick on the button, and stay on the side The Wrong Pants‘ always one. For a film that sometimes suffers from its desire to show and discuss with him Wallace and GromitIn the past, it is a moment that creates clear evidence of the power gained by building the greatness that came before.
Wallace & Gromit: The Great Fowl’s Revenge now streaming on Netflix.
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