The Gruffalo

2009 27 min ★ 7.4 Animation, Family, TV Movie

The magical tale of a mouse who sets foot on a woodland adventure in search of a nut. Encountering predators who all wish to eat him - Fox, Owl and Snake - the brave mouse creates a terrifying, imaginary monster to frighten them away. But what will the mouse do when he meets this frightful monster for real?

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Cast

Helena Bonham Carter

Mother Squirrel (voice)

Rob Brydon

Snake (voice)

Robbie Coltrane

The Gruffalo (voice)

James Corden

Mouse (voice)

John Hurt

Owl (voice)

Tom Wilkinson

Fox (voice)

Details

Director

Max Lang

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Production

Magic Light Pictures, Orange Eyes, Studio Soi

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

February 14, 2024

★ 7/10

Before a mouse goes for wander in the forest to find a nut, he fails to consider that he is just about bite-size for most of it's other dwellers. There's a snake, an owl - who does seem to find it quite difficult to fly in a straight line, and a ferocious fox. Perhaps he has read "1001 Nights" though, because when faced with becoming sandwich fodder, he conjures up an image for each of them of thi...