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| “ | Looks like we got to come up with... something else! | „ |
| ~ Mrs. Griffin plotting to kill Finny and Leah. |
| “ | No offense mate, but you're a gorilla, things already got ugly. | „ |
| ~ Mr. Griffin insulting Mr. Gorilla. |
| “ | Mr. Griffin: What the heck was that? Mrs. Griffin: How many times do I have to tell you, EAT SLOWLY!! Mr. Griffin: Oh, but I was so hungry. Mrs. Griffin: Great, they were the only food left! |
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| ~ The Griffins' argument after they lose Finny and Leah. |
Mrs. and Mr. Griffin are the two main antagonists of the 2015 German-Luxembourgish-Belgian-Irish computer-animated film Ooops! Noah is Gone... (also known as All Creatures Big and Small in the US and Two by Two in the UK).
Mrs. Griffin was voiced by Aileen Mythen, who also played Flamingo, Margaret the Rhino, and Mrs. Gorilla; Mr. Griffin was voiced by Dermot Magennis, who also played Dave the Nestrian and a Prairie dog.
Information[]
The Griffins are a couple of carnivorous flying foxes with Australian accents. The two constantly chase after Finny the Nestrian and Leah the Grymph and plan to eat them so that they can survive during the great flood. They are quite incompetent in mind, resulting in them accidentally injure themselves in their own attempts to eat Finny and Leah.
Mrs. Griffin
Mrs. Griffin[]
Mrs. Griffin is the slender one with orange eyes, a long neck, and a long tail. Her right ear and left wing have multiple hole wounds through the thick skin. Out of the two, she is the smartest, coming up with ideas on how to ambush and trap their prey. Occasionally, she is shown to be abusive to her dumb husband and often blames him for their failures, although she can be just as ignorant as him occasionally.
Mr. Griffin
Mr. Griffin[]
Mr. Griffin is an obese one with an orange right eye and a gray left eye. He is very clumsy and lazy, as he would rather let food come to him than to hunt alongside his wife (unless his predator instincts kick in). He also has somewhat of a greedy and gluttonous personality, as he often consumes food for himself and leaves none for his wife.
Biography[]
The Griffins first appear along with the other animals summoned by the Lion Captain as the chosen participants to board Noah's Ark and survive the incoming flood. The morning before the floodwaters arrive, as the animals line up to board the ship, the Griffins fly to the front of the dock, in which Mr. Gorilla, one of Lion Captain's henchmen, calls them out for cutting in line. Mrs. Griffin attempts to manipulate him in spite of them "being in a hurry". Mr. Gorilla then hears a prairie dog yelling for help as it attempts to escape from Mr. Griffin's mouth and orders him to spit it out, as animal consumption was forbidden on the Ark. After Mr. Griffin reluctantly spits it out, Mr. Gorilla grabs the Griffins and tells them to scram before things got ugly. Mr. Griffin remarks that since the guard of the Ark was a gorilla, things were already ugly, angering the ape enough to kick them off into the distance.
The Griffins later appear as the flood reaches the Ark and snatch up Finny and Leah (who were accidentally left behind on the boarding platform) and appear to be taking them back to the Ark, but instead turn around and attempt to eat the kids for a "mid-flight snack". The kids manage to escape through Finny's defensive smokescreen mechanism and land onto a dry path towards a large mountain, hiding in the bushes as Mrs. Griffin blames her husband's ignorance to eat slowly as the reason for losing their meal.
The next morning, the Griffins spot the kids trapped on top of Finny's partially submerged tree house and go in for another attempt to eat them. After a rough game of dodging through trees, the Griffins are blown away from Obesey's sneeze, caused by Finny as he ran up his nose. Mrs. Griffin comes up with a plan to kill the three by creating a precarious rock bridge to collapse into a fissure. Once Finny, Leah, Obesey and his parasite named Stayput arrive at the rock bridge, it manages to collapse sending them falling to their apparent doom, until Finny turns a hat he made for Obesey into wings, allowing them to fly further up the mountain, leaving the Griffins to be crushed by the rocks in a homage to the tile-matching puzzle video game Tetris.
The next day, the Griffins are shown to have survived the rockslide sitting in a nest on the side of the mountain, complaining about the lack of food available. In a chain of flooding throughout caves in the mountain, Finny and Leah are pushed out an opening and unfortunately land in the Griffins' nest. Before the Griffins finally have a chance to eat the two, Obesey pops out of the hole that he was stuck in and smashes through the nest and the Griffins. Finny and Leah jump out of the way, but are unable to save Obesey and Stayput as they and the Griffins fall into the floodwater, leaving the two to presume that they all drowned.
At the climax, when Finny and Leah reunite with their parents and Finny and his father, Dave, learn that Nestrians are aquatic creatures, the Griffins are shown to be alive and dive underwater to attack Leah and her mother, Hazel. Dave sprays them with his smokescreen and breaks for the surface to give Leah and Hazel air. Finny has an idea to lure the Griffins into the now submerged caves of the mountain to trap and drown them. Despite Finny successfully trapping them in a hammock that he made earlier in the film using his reflection off a crystal, Mrs. Griffin uses her claws to cut out a door through the net, allowing the Griffins to continue chasing after Finny. Finny makes it out of the cave into Dave's arms, and Obesey (who reveals to be a whale) appears and swallows the two Griffins whole.
During the end credits, they are shown to be still alive, so they are betting on the fish that Obesey eats by playing cards inside his stomach.
Trivia[]
- Despite having smaller goals compared to the Lion Captain, the Griffins simply wanted to kill anyone for food whereas Lion Captain wanted to kill to remain in command, he and his henchmen redeem themselves while the Griffins remain angered by the lack of food.
- Their first names are unknown, as they were never mentioned in the film.
- The part where Mr. Griffin insults Mr. Gorilla is cut out in the edited version of the film.