This film marks the 35th year of their adventures, beginning with the short film “Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out” in 1989, all of them rendered in lovingly detailed stop-motion animation. “Vengeance Most Fowl” is only the second feature-length film,

For years, before the stop-motion animation wizards of England’s Aardman Animations introduced themselves to a mass audience with the feature film “Chicken Run” in 2000, they had been delighting fans with award-winning short films starring the mild-mannered duo of British inventor and cheese lover Wallace and his faithful dog,

Vengeance” is highlighted by the return of the series penguin villain, Feathers McGraw, currently locked up for a diamond heist, but not for long.

Nick Park, co-director and creator of 'Wallace and Gromit,' and Merlin Crossingham, co-director and Aardman's Creative Director, enthuse about the iconic duo's return.

Early in the new film Vengeance Most Fowl, Wallace proudly introduces Gromit to his latest invention – Norbot, an AI-powered smart gnome designed to take the strain out of gardening. Soon enough, Norbot (voiced by Reece Shearsmith) is making Gromit’s garden “neat and tidy” with alarming manic cheer: trimming the hedge almost into oblivion,

Vengeance Most Fowl also doesn’t clutter up the storyline with too many extra characters – just the return of Peter Kay’s pleasingly pompous and rather inefficient police officer from The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, now a chief inspector, and his bright and plucky protegee, PC Mukherjee (Lauren Patel).

Here's how to watch "Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl" online from anywhere with a VPN — and potentially for free. "Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl" premieres on Wednesday, December 25 on BBC One 6.10 p.m. GMT (1.10 p.m. ET/10.10 a.m PT), and will get its global release on Netflix on January 3. • WATCH FREE — BBC iPlayer (U.K.)