Wallace & Gromits take on tech fits duos handcrafted esthethic Winnipeg Free Press [Video]

A new feature-length animated adventure starring the brilliant comic duo Wallace and Gromit has just arrived on Netflix, and it will have fans of previous W&G classics from British creator Nick Park feeling warm and nostalgic.

Here’s the thing, though. While the world of Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is as funny, optimistic and utterly charming as ever, this lovingly rendered stop-motion project also manages to ask some serious and very topical questions about the role of tech in our lives.

And “that’s champion,” as Wallace would say.

A lot of cinematic examinations of tech are slick, futuristic sci-fi scenarios, but W&G, as always, goes its own eccentric way, being retro and rather cosy. The setting is a suburban semi-detached somewhere in Lancashire, and the era is hard to pin down, the franchise’s vaguely 1950s ambience now joined by clunky, clackety early computers.

Meanwhile, instead of some arrogant, overreaching Silicon Valley sociopath instigating a possible tech apocalypse, we have Wallace, a funny-looking, well-intentioned, sweetly oblivious kind of fellow with a …