Movie #407 ........................."The Gruffalo"

Movie #407 "The Gruffalo" is the 4th in the series of animated shorts nominated for an Oscar in 2011. This one was slow and really the worst of the bunch, in my estimation. Yet it has all the actors attached to it, doing voices, people like: Helena Bonham Carter, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson, and Robbie Coltrane. A mom is telling the story of this mouse who is so afraid of the owl, the snake, and the third animal (can't remember right now) that he makes up a boogie animal --- a gruffalo, who then appears and scares him (I guess the theme is not to make up stories, or be careful what you wish for) -- anyway, it was way too slow and unoriginal to be in the league of the other movies in this category, in my opinion.