Gromit's only sanctuary is his garden but Wallace designs a robotic gnome NORBOT (Reece Shearsmith) to 'help' there as well. When it proves to be astonishingly efficient in transforming the whole thing, neighbours start asking if NORBOT is for hire and local TV reporter Onya Doorstop (Diane Morgan) comes to report on the amazing invention.
No good will come of this
Aardman Animations are back and so is Feathers McGraw channelling a Bond villain so transparently that there's a shot of them stroking a white seal pup in a wing backed swivel chair.
From the very start the ability to micromanage every frame, animation's double edged sword, is used to fill the screen with visual gags, slapstick and pun based humour. Heist/action movie tropes get re-imagined in the signature Aardman style throughout and by the time you get to the end they're staging a Mission: Impossible style climactic chase scene but in Narrowboats over an aqueduct, complete with a handbrake turn. I laughed a lot.
I don't think anything will ever top the train set scene from "The Wrong Trousers" but this has a fair go 9/10.