Name: The Gruffalo
Genre: Animation, Family, TV Movie
Released: 2009-12-25
Duration: 27 min
Rating: 7.0
Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Rob Brydon, Robbie Coltrane, James Corden, John Hurt

2009·Animation·27m

7.0

★

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?

Directed by Max Lang and Jakob Schuh

based on children's book

cartoon mouse

short film

cartoon fox

cartoon snake

Rank

#59 in 2009·#3333 overall

Trailer

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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)

Crew

Max Lang

Director

Max Lang

Writer

Julia Donaldson

Writer

Julia Donaldson

Author

Popular Reviews

323 reviews

Ella Hill

9.0★ · 01/26/26

Watched this for academic purposes believe it or not

Marley Davies

9.0★ · 03/28/26

The gruffalos forest is where you'd find me

KenziePRO

9.0★ · 03/03/26

There’s really not much to not like about this, as an adult there’s only so much you can ask for when you have to watch a kids film, but this one is quite calm and neutral with sweet moments.

Theia

10.0★ · 03/01/26

beautiful.

Kourtis

7.0★ · 01/26/26

The story is a classic. I don’t think they needed to add any additional scenes though.