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Wallace and Gromit grapple with 'smart gnome' in latest movie caper
The Straits Times
|December 23, 2024
Artificial intelligence takes a new twist in Nick Park's latest Wallace & Gromit film, which features a "smart gnome" who goes rogue and offers what the Oscar-winning film-maker said is a lighthearted look at the human use of technology.
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LONDON - Artificial intelligence takes a new twist in Nick Park's latest Wallace & Gromit film, which features a "smart gnome" who goes rogue and offers what the Oscar-winning film-maker said is a lighthearted look at the human use of technology.
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, premiering on Netflix on Jan 3, is the second feature film about Wallace, an ever-optimistic inventor, and his loyal dog Gromit, following 2005's The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit.
This story is from the December 23, 2024 edition of The Straits Times.
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