We all love it when a classic screen villain makes an unexpected return. That certainly drives "Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl," the first Wallace & Gromit feature since 2005's Oscar-winning "The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" and the first film to feature the beloved characters since 2008's "A Matter of Loaf and Death" (Oscar-nominated,

For over a decade, we've been in a Wallace & Gromit drought. It's been 16 years since the franchise's last short, A Matter of Loaf and Death, and 19 since its first feature film, the Academy Award–winning Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. That's a long time to be apart from two of Britain's greatest treasures.

Vengeance Most Fowl”—the second feature-length Wallace and Gromit stop-motion film—is new on Netflix this week. Find out when you can stream it.

Vengeance Most Fowl proves that the 35-year-old franchise hasn't yet lost its cheerful, hilarious touch. The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

Shaun the Sheep fans will have enjoyed spotting a cameo from the farmer of Mossy Bottom Farm in recent outing Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, a film that also included an even briefer cameo from a version of Gromit that’s older than most of the audience would have been.

The new outing comes 16 years after the duo’s last story in A Matter of Loaf and Death, and follows the pair as Wallace’s latest creation, a ‘smart gnome’, gets hacked by villainous penguin Feathers McGraw and wreaks havoc on the community.

Vengeance Most Fowl have a distinctly British sensibility, so they went over most American audiences’ heads. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, in which the villainous Feathers McGraw comes back into Wallace and Gromit’s lives for a nefarious revenge scheme,