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Twenty years after their last appearance in the cinema, the emblematic tandem of stop-motion animation is back on Netflix with “The Palm of Vengeance”, a sort of medley with admirable accuracy.
Quiet since the mid-2000s, and a first foray into the field of feature films in the form of a final bouquet (The Mystery of the Were-Rabbit2005), Wallace and Gromit lived peaceful days, only leaving their retirement for a few Christmas commercials. Despite the worldwide success, despite the Oscars, the most emblematic duo of British animation (animation in short?) has never transformed into a franchise, into a license exploited until the film too many. Nick Park, the creator of the bald British inventor (Wallace) and his smarter and more human dog (Gromit) refusing to indulge in overproduction and exploring other universes, such as a feature film on the invention of football at the stone age – Cro Man, not necessarily memorable.
Twenty years after their last appearance in the cinema, Wallace and Gromit are making a comeback in the style of rock legends. Sponsored Netflix. The meeting between the world of Californian tech, its server farms ensuring the impeccable fluidity of 4K programs in mondovision, and a studio specializing in stop-motion, where movement benefits from never being perfectly fluid.
Adhering to its old methods to the end, the Aardman studio underlines the hand-sewn with a storm of figures: it took five weeks to shoot the seventeen seconds of the longest scene in the film (a simple phone call), 200 employees were mobilized, and 600 pairs of eyes were created
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