Superworm

The book is fast paced and great, the kids love it. This short film is too dragged out and slow. It 5 year old and 2 year old aren't too fussed, Gruffalo, Gruffalo's Child, Stickman, and Room on a Broom are delivered much more inkewping with the books.

We were looking forward to this having read the book to my kids a lot and loving most of the previous magic light ones. While the animation etc is still as good I just felt surprised at how superworm was portrayed. In the book he comes across as somewhat humble and just happy to help others while the others big him up. Well that's how we took it. But in this he was portrayed as starting his own chant and saying 'hip Hip hooray' to about himself and it just felt out of character. He's talking about himself in the first person too at times. Always a sign of a big ego. Just didn't quite land well.

My children have watched this 1 or 2 times each day since it was on. (3 days). Considering the book is the lovely, but with the weakest narrative it's come out great.

Continues the animation style perfectly.

Look, 5 stars because it's for kids and it's a perfectly good story and everything and yes the worm does save multiple lives. But I get a terrible vibe from him. He seems like such an arrogant invertebrate. He 100% would have bullied me in school if I was a worm as well. They need to stop hyping him up. He's lucky he's super long and super strong otherwise there'd be nothing redeeming about his wormy little personality. They only all bothered to save him because they'd be screwed without him, other than that, he's boring. Oh god, he himself literally chants "hip hip hooray for Superworm" with all the others - arrogance at its finest.

If Superworm was a human we'd all absolutely despise him, remember that. Why should we let a worm get away with it?

Ok, wow, unfollowing now. I loved Matt Smith as the Doctor, had no idea he was that horrible worm.

I love the story, and enjoyed the animation. But it's not on the same level as The Gruffalo's Child and Stickman - they have a more natural, beautifully crafted and tactile feel. This one lacked some of that, and felt too smooth and flat in much of it. Too 'computery'. That said, I've rated it an 8 as I love all of the stories, and original illustrations.