Gumnutz: A Juicy Tale

Gumnutz: A Juicy Tale is an 80-minute length animated film directed by Clive Harrison and released in 2007. It was nominated for APRA Music Awards of 2008 as the Best Music for Children's Television but lost to Animalia.

One morning it is Claude's first day to work at his Uncle Calvin's Gumnut juice factory. Claude doesn't feel up to it at first. Calvin receives an order for Gumnut juice from the business man Peer Point J. Marino which if successful will grant Calvin's company a contract. The rival Hot Spot Charlie hoping to beat Calvin to the contract first, sends Frankie to steal the secret sweetening formula to fulfill his quota.

Hot Spot has the apothecarie Cobra analyse the ingredients of the secret formula, but without any success. Hot Spot sends his goons to kidnap Calvin. Claude finds a lead to Bad Manor, but Calvin is well hidden. Hot Spot gets hold a riddle book which has a clue to the secret formula. Catching wind of this, Claude and Pepper sneak into Bad Manor and copy the riddle, Hot Spot also getting the knowledge.

Claude and Pepper follow the riddle to Darwin Platypus who tells them the secret formula, Hot Spot listening in. Hot Spot traps Claude, Pepper and Darwin Platypus, but Cobra defects and rescues them and they return to the Gumnut juice factory to begin a large production. Claude is briefly separated from the others, but uses Calvin's special instrument to rally all the Cicadas for the essential ingredient of the formula.

Claude, his friends and a swarm of Cicadas thwart Hot Spot's attempt to destroy the Gumnut juice factory, then follow him to Bad Manor to rescue Calvin helped by Ghoulie Gilly. Once Calvin is rescued, Cobra blows Bad Manor with Hot Spot and his goons to the Arctic. After that Calvin is able to meet Marino's quota and get the contract.