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Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
Yes, I loved it too! We watched with Oli (2 and a half), and he was captivated, repeating the bits of dialogue, although he said that the Gruffalo was a bit scary when it appeared and didn't like it at first - he's got the book, but I think it was the mouse eye view angle they used, and the fact that Mummy and Daddy both tend to read the Gruffalo as a bit dim, whereas he was more threatening in the cartoon, at least at first.
It really should come out on DVD, it was brillant. I loved all the Gruffalo shaped bits of tree in the opening credit shots, and the little touches like the waterboatmen getting eaten by the fish, which was then eaten by the stork.
There was an article about it in the Radio Times where the author mentioned that it's been translated into 40 languages, and that for the French version, to keep the rhyme and scansion, instead of 'a slice of bread', the Gruffalo says the mouse would be good on "a bed of artichokes" - I love that too!
It really should come out on DVD, it was brillant. I loved all the Gruffalo shaped bits of tree in the opening credit shots, and the little touches like the waterboatmen getting eaten by the fish, which was then eaten by the stork.
There was an article about it in the Radio Times where the author mentioned that it's been translated into 40 languages, and that for the French version, to keep the rhyme and scansion, instead of 'a slice of bread', the Gruffalo says the mouse would be good on "a bed of artichokes" - I love that too!
