Pudsey: The Movie

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 MeikleSmall. The film was made by Vertigo Films and Syco Entertainment, and was released in the United Kingdom onJuly 2014, after it was originally set to be released in December the previous year. The film received negative reviews from critics and it earned 2,549,705 on a 2.5 million budget. OnNovember 2014 Pudsey the Dog The Movie was released on DVD in the United Kingdom.

In January 2013, it was announced that Simon Cowell would produce Pudsey The Dog The Movie. The film, which was released onJuly 2014, follows Pudsey and his siblings Molly, George, and Tommy as they move to the village of ChuffingtononSea 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.In its first week, the film grossed 446,000, finishing outside of a Topled 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 3.310 based onreviews. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian called the film so depressingly bad that cinemas should play the adagietto from Mahlers 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. ........

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