The return of Feathers McGraw in the latest Wallace & Gromit film invites plenty of comparisons to the series' past—and highlights just how far it's come.

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,

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.

Nick Park’s beloved pair faces off against the dastardly penguin Feathers McGraw in this stop-motion feature.

Vengeance Most Fowl’ brings back an iconic villain from the past, to tell a story of modern technology gone wrong.

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,