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Pudsey the Dog: The Movie
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Wikipedia article
'Pudsey The Dog: The Movie' is a 2014 British 3D live action family comedy film directed by Nick Moore, produced by Simon Cowell, written by Paul Rose with music by Simon Woodgate and starring Pudsey the Dog, one half of the dancing duo Ashleigh and Pudsey, voiced by David Walliams.
Other stars include Jessica Hynes, John Sessions, Jim Tavar and Izzy Meikle-Small. The film was made by Vertigo Films and Syco Entertainment, and was released in the United Kingdom on 18 July 2014, after it was originally set to be released in December the previous year. The film received negative reviews from critics, and it earned 2.6 million on a 2.5 million budget.
On 10 November 2014, 'Pudsey the Dog: The Movie' was released on DVD in the United Kingdom.
Cast
*David Walliams as Pudsey (voice)
*John Sessions as Thorne
*Jessica Hynes as Gail
*Izzy Meikle-Small as Molly
*Malachy Knights as Tommy
*Luke Neal as Farmer Jack
*Luke Tittensor as Will
*Lorraine Kelly as Cat (voice)
*Dan Farrell as Ken and Finn
*Jim Tavare as The Dog Catcher
*Peter Serafinowicz as Edward the Horse (voice)
*Olivia Colman as Nelly the Horse (voice)
*Ashleigh Butler as Anabella The Cow (voice)
Production
In January 2013, it was announced that Simon Cowell would produce 'Pudsey The Dog: The Movie'. The film, which was released on 18 July 2014, follows Pudsey and his siblings Molly, George, and Tommy as they move to the village of Chuffington-on-Sea with their mother Gail (Jessica Hynes) and set out to save the village, from their landlord Mr Thorne (John Sessions) and his cat Faustus. Pudsey is voiced by comedian David Walliams.
Soundtrack
* Pudsey: He's Got The Love Performed by Echobass
* Things Are Getting Better Performed by Echobass
* Breaking It Down Performed by Echobass
* Tea Dance Composed by Norman Warren
* All Music Composed by Simon Woodgate
Home media
On 10 November 2014, 'Pudsey the Dog: The Movie' was released on DVD in the United Kingdom.
Critical reception and 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". 'Pudsey: The Movie' was critically panned. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes it holds a rare 0% approval rating with an average score of 3.3/10 based on 14 reviews.[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pudsey_the_movie/ Pudsey the Dog: The Movie (2014)] Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
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."
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