Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – everything we know about the Christmas Day sequel to The Wrong Trousers
By Dan Seddon | Sun Apr 06 2025Wallace & Gromit will soon be back on our screens in Vengeance Most Fowl after a 16-year sabbatical, having last headlined the short, A Matter of Loaf and Death.
This stop-motion TV film from Aardman Animations reunites the walking catastrophe that is Wallace, an inventor from Wigan, and his trusty beagle-breed sidekick Gromit, who's been saving their skin since 1989.
Scheduled to air on BBC One this Christmas Day, here's everything we know so far about The Wrong Trousers sequel Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, including plot, where to watch it, duration - and what went down in the iconic predecessor over three decades ago.
Where to watch Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl?
BBC One will premiere the film on Christmas Day at 6.10pm in England and Ireland, before launching internationally via Netflix on Friday, January 3.
The Beeb has also been airing specially commissioned Christmas idents created by Aardman to promote the return of its beloved plasticine characters. One features Wallace and Gromit ice-sculpting.
Where was it filmed?
The painstaking production process, which consists of 24 framed movements for just one second of footage, was completed at Aardman's Bristol headquarters on Gas Ferry Road.
Interestingly, the factory that supplied Aardman with its modelling clay – Lewis Newplast – closed its doors in March 2023, but luckily for Wallace & Gromit fans enough material was purchased for Vengeance Most Fowl. Aardman must now do business with a fresh supplier for future projects.
What happened in The Wrong Trousers, leading up to Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl?
Released in 1993, The Wrong Trousers first introduced audiences to Wallace & Gromit's most cunning adversary: Feathers McGraw. A tiny, non-verbal penguin, Feathers rented out the protagonists' spare bedroom only to reveal himself as a criminal mastermind intent on using Wallace's techno-trousers for his jewell-thieving schemes.
Having driven Gromit out of the property, fugitive Feathers, who was poorly disguising himself as a chicken, re-circuited his unwitting landlord's robotic pants and forced him to break into a local museum in his sleep. Wallace triggered the building's security system, so the villain marched his confused plaything home before locking him and Gromit inside the wardrobe at gunpoint.
Ever the heroic companion, Gromit managed to retake control of the trousers and free them both. He and Feathers then embarked on one of the greatest-ever chase sequences aboard a model train set – Gromit frantically extending the train track as they zoomed through the house. When a disarmed Feathers crashed into the trousers, Gromit coolly captured the airborne evildoer in an empty milk bottle.
Feathers was subsequently jailed in the city zoo - never once showing up in the next three Wallace & Gromit adventures: A Close Shave (1995), The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) or A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008).
What can fans expect to see in Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl?
An official synopsis for Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl reads: "Gromit's concern that Wallace is becoming too dependent on his inventions proves justified when Wallace invents a 'smart' gnome that seems to develop a mind of its own.
"When it emerges that a vengeful figure from the past might be masterminding things, it falls to Gromit to battle sinister forces and save his master ... or Wallace may never be able to invent again!"
Cue that damn penguin.
Is Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl worth watching?
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, which had a limited theatrical release in America earlier in December, premiered on the closing day of Hollywood's AFI Fest back at the end of October.
In her four-star review for The Guardian, Catherine Shoard found "comfort and joy in the routine and delight in the details", including some "startling flights of fancy" amidst the welcome thumb-smudges on the film's clay figurines.
"Vengeance Most Fowl is proof the traditional can still thrive – not only in how a film looks, but even in the barrage of puns and corny dad jokes. There are some timely updates, including a pitch-perfect gag about online Captcha verification tests. But I'm not sure any other studio could get away quite so cleanly with dropping a Shawshank Redemption prison gag in the year 2024. That's how you know Aardman has earned a privileged place in British culture," read The Independent's analysis.
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl currently sits on a flawless 100% Rotten Tomatoes score.
