It feels like Puffins? Day 2025 is the right time for a quick roundup of all the puffin-related films on offer. Until a few years ago there was no puffin-based cinema at all, but the silver screen now has several offerings for you to choose from.
Released in 2023, and starring Chris O’Dowd from off of Bridesmaids and the IT Crowd, Puffin Rock and the New Friends deals with the unexpected disappearance of a Little Egg and the adventures of Oona (a puffin) and her friends (also puffins) as they try to save it before Puffin Rock is hit by a Big Storm.
The Guardian called it a “wholesome delight”, but only gave it three stars.
2024’s Robo Puffin (styled Rise of the Robo Puffin in some territories) appears to be an Italian movie. In it, evil bad buy Otto van Walrus (a walrus) creates the mischievous Robo Puffin (a robot puffin) to outshine the real puffins, in a plot that appears to have no meaningful jeopardy whatsoever. Johnny Puff (a puffin) and his friends (also puffins) use the power of teamwork to outoutshine the puffin-outshining robot.
If you’re sad that Robo Puffin is available only in Italian, don’t worry: while the feature film is available only in the language of amore, it appears to be a rehashing of this 2020 TV series called Puffins which, amazingly, stars Johnny Depp as Johnny Puff (a puffin). Otto van Walrus (a walrus) is here too, up to no good as usual, though this time Puff and his friends (also puffins) are apparently working for him and not in any sort of robotic outshining contest.
A second series, Puffin Impossible, recasts its central characters as superheroes. If you want to see puffins in capes, this is the one for you.