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

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

This film marks the 35th year of their adventures, beginning with the short film “Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out” in 1989, all of them rendered in lovingly detailed stop-motion animation. “Vengeance Most Fowl” is only the second feature-length film,

Vengeance Most Fowl also doesn’t clutter up the storyline with too many extra characters – just the return of Peter Kay’s pleasingly pompous and rather inefficient police officer from The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, now a chief inspector, and his bright and plucky protegee, PC Mukherjee (Lauren Patel).

The sixth adventure of the Lancashire inventor and his beagle pits them against an old foe, the bandit penguin Feathers McGraw.

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.