The Gruffalo's Child

2011 26 min ★ 6.9 Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy, TV Movie

A follow up to the 2009 animated feature and adapted from the childrens' book by Julia Donaldson and Alex Scheffler. The Gruffalo's child explores the deep dark wood in search of the big bad mouse and meets the Snake, Owl and Fox in the process. She eventually finds the mouse, who manages to outwit her like the Gruffalo before!

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Cast

Helena Bonham Carter

Mother Squirrel (voice)

Shirley Henderson

The Gruffalo's Child (voice)

Robbie Coltrane

The Gruffalo (voice)

Rob Brydon

The Snake (voice)

John Hurt

The Owl (voice)

Tom Wilkinson

The Fox (voice)

James Corden

The Mouse (voice)

Phoebe Givron-Taylor

Little Squirrel (voice)

Sam Lewis

Little Squirrel

Details

Director

Uwe Heidschötter

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Production

Magic Light Pictures, Orange Eyes, Studio Soi

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

February 14, 2024

★ 7/10

I'm a bit of a sucker for a snowy adventure so I actually enjoyed this every bit as much as I did the first film (2009). Clearly in the intervening years, "Gruffalo" has had some fun for now there is a child. An inquisitive little beastie who has been warned by her dad not to go into the woods unaccompanied for fear of encountering the mouse! In a bit of a reversal of the original story, this intr...