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,

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,