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| Directed by | Nick Moore |
| Written by | Paul Rose |
| Produced by | Simon Cowell |
| Starring | Pudsey David Walliams Jessica Hynes Jim Tavaré John Sessions |
| Cinematography | Ali Asad |
| Edited by | Daniel Farrell |
| Production company | Syco |
| Distributed by | Vertigo Films |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £2.4 million |
| Box office | £446,000 |
Pudsey: The Movie is a British comedy film starring Pudsey, one half of the dancing duo Ashleigh and Pudsey, voiced by David Walliams. Other stars include Jessica Hynes, John Sessions and Jim Tavaré. The film was made by Vertigo Films and Syco and was released in the United Kingdom on 18 July 2014, after it was originally set to be released in December the previous year.
Production
Production for Pudsey: The Movie began on 1 September 2013.
Plot
The film is about 2012 Britain's Got Talent winner Pudsey the dog on an adventure.
Cast
- David Walliams - voice of Pudsey
- John Sessions - Thorne
- Jessica Hynes - Gail
- Izzy Meikle-Small - Molly
- Malachy Knights - Tommy
- Luke Neal - Farmer Jack
- Amanda Holden - voice
- Lorraine Kelly - voice of Cat (fired due to the original actor being withdrawn)
- Dan Farrell - voice of Ken & Finn
Reception
Box office
In its first week, the film grossed £446,000, finishing outside of a Top 5 led by Dawn of the Planet of the Apes with £8.7 million. This was described by the BBC as a "flop".
Critical reception
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes it holds a 0% approval rating with an average score of 3.2/10 based on 11 reviews.
Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian called the film "so depressingly bad that cinemas should play the adagietto from Mahler's Fifth over a loudspeaker as audiences file out grimly into the foyer afterwards, silently asking themselves if life has any value... Watching this movie, I was overwhelmed with three emotions: boredom, embarrassment and chiefly shame on behalf of everyone involved, shame that something so shoddily made and mediocre could ever have emerged from our film industry." Writing in The Observer, Mark Kermode said "nothing can explain (or excuse) the sheer skull-scraping ugliness of this relentlessly tacky Britain's Got Talent spin-off... If you paid to see this, you would feel duty-bound to demand your money back; I saw it for free and still wanted a refund." David Edwards of the Daily Mirror called the film a "cheap and cheerless embarrassment" with a "thin and familiar" plot and said it "deserves to be scraped from the lawn, and dropped in the bin."
See also
References
- http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/s107/britains-got-talent/news/a453150/britains-got-talent-simon-cowell-to-produce-ashleigh-and-pudsey-film.html
- http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jul/12/this-weeks-new-films
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28440079
- http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/s107/britains-got-talent/news/a512793/david-walliams-to-voice-britains-got-talent-dog-in-pudsey-the-movie.html
- http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/david-walliams-voice-pudsey-dancing-2252418
- http://www.vertigofilms.com/news/pudsey-2013-vertigo-films-production.php#.UjNdsdI3tLc
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/24006432
- Pudsey:The Movie Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
- Peter Bradshaw (17 July 2014). "Pudsey the Dog: The Movie review – a shame for everyone involved". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
- Mark Kermode (17 July 2014). "Pudsey the Dog: the Movie review – relentlessly tacky BGT spin-off". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
- David Edwards (17 July 2014). "Pudsey the Dog - The Movie review: Big screen venture is a bit of a dog's dinner". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
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