Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (feature film)

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‘Accrington Queen’

still trying to remember which gangster / crime movies some of the references were from

I think we saw about 10 references inc. Mary Poppins, the Italian job, the ladykillers.....

 

[two sheds]

Someone's going to have to do an annotated version along the lines of:

The Annotated Alice

'A landmark, bringing together a lifetime's work on Lewis Carroll by writer and mathematician Martin Gardner. He dazzles on Carroll's puzzles and games of logic and entertains on everything from Alice's influence on the Beat poet Jack Kerouac to howmercury in hat linings turned hatters mad...it...

www.penguin.co.uk

 

[purenarcotic]

Caught up on this today and it was, as they always are, absolutely fabulous. Witty, clever and a bit silly. Perfect TV.

 

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The amount of work that went in to making that was astonishing.
I can't help wondering if Norbert chopping up the garden early on was a reference to Norman Wisdom in Earlybirds when he runs amok with a motor mower.

 

[StoneRoad]

Caught up on this today and it was, as they always are, absolutely fabulous. Witty, clever and a bit silly. Perfect TV.

That's sent me down a real rabbit warren ... starting with Aardman, Morph, Tony Hart and finally PG's Sledgehammer video ...

 

[weltweit]

I really enjoyed this but it's mined boglliñg how much work must have gone into it. I did notice some hints from other works like when the penguin is in the zoo and he's doing pull-ups. And and all the robots turning bad reminded me of I robot which was a film I loved. Sure there were many more.

 

[May Kasahara]

Caught up on this today and it was, as they always are, absolutely fabulous. Witty, clever and a bit silly. Perfect TV.

Same, we watched it today and it was absolutely brilliant My eldest is 16 now but still loves W&G and was genuinely excited for this; we don't get to spend so much time with the kids as they're getting older, so it was a real gift to have something we all wanted to watch, and it didn't disappoint. Loved all the film references, Feathers ofc, the Yorks/Lancs border, everything.

 

[teuchter]

The best scene is when the gnome puts itself onto recharge. No electronic device actually does that when recharging but somehow it captures something essential about electronic devices.

 

[pesh]

trying to work out what the reference was when they were going through the tunnel with the lighting going off and on, was it Speed?

 

[QueenOfGoths]

trying to work out what the reference was when they were going through the tunnel with the lighting going off and on, was it Speed?

Yes I want sure of that. The first "Mission Impossible" film has a scene in the channel tunnel but I'm not familiar enough with the film to know if the lighting goes on and off

 

[rubbershoes]

I found it disappointing compared to previous outings.

 

[RubyToogood]

I love that it has a full orchestral score,it's so ridiculous. It must have been a lot of fun to play.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I found it disappointing compared to previous outings.

I mean The Wrong Trousers is absolutely perfect and will never be outdone by anything ever, so this sets the bar a bit high I feel.

 

[Elpenor]

I liked the fact a minor character seen briefly shares my name

 

[WouldBe]

I liked the fact a minor character seen briefly shares my name

Feathers McGraw

 

[PR1Berske]

It was so good. Very funny. Even right at the end with "Madam Butter Pies" .

 

[Cerv]

He does a good Wallace impersonation and had plenty of time to practice whilst the animation was filmed.

he'd already being doing the role for years while Sallis was still alive. for minor stuff like video games, the Proms once, some TV ads.

 

[PR1Berske]

16 million viewers now all the iPlayer stats are calculated. Not shabby at all

 

[oryx]

Finally caught up with it tonight - definitely the best seasonal TV we saw (tbf the competition wasn't great). Hilarious and clever.

(except that my OH said that Feathers's thudding, malevolent footsteps reminded him of mine...).

 

[Boo Radley75]

I really enjoyed this but it's mined boglliñg how much work must have gone into it. I did notice some hints from other works like when the penguin is in the zoo and he's doing pull-ups. And and all the robots turning bad reminded me of I robot which was a film I loved. Sure there were many more.

Robert de Niro in Cape Fear

 

[mwgdrwg]

Clearly it was an incarcerated Sarah Connor in Terminator 2 reference!