I settled down to watch Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl with high expectations and a little bit of trepidation. The high expectations were based on the previous films involving the animated inventor and his canine companion; the trepidation was because Peter Sallis would not be voicing the protagonist.
I thought it was wonderful, a brilliant piece of cinema with an engaging story, more references than I could spot in a single viewing, and some genuinely exciting sequences which were both gripping and amusing.
There wasn't a single point where the voice acting was a problem because Ben Whitehead is a very talented actor whose portrayal of Wallace was pitch perfect, Peter Kay made a welcome return as police officer (now) Chief Inspector Macintosh, and Reece Shearsmith was wonderfully cast as Norbot, Wallace's robotic creation which (brilliantly and inexplicably) has an 'evil' setting which criminal mastermind Feathers McGraw exploits.
If you haven't already seen this, do yourself a favour and take 80 minutes to watch on iPlayer; I'll be watching it many more times in the next 12 months both on iPlayer and when it is available to buy.
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