The Magic Pudding (film)
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| Directed by | Karl Zwicky |
| Produced by | Gerry Travers Paddy Conroy Bruce Davey Carmel Travers Edward Trost |
| Written by | Harry Cripps Greg Haddrick Simon Hopkinson |
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The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay |
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Geoffrey Rush Hugo Weaving Sam Neill Jack Thompson Toni Collette John Cleese Mary Coustas Dave Gibson Greg Carroll Roy Billing |
| Music by | Chris Harriott |
| Edited by | Richard Hindley |
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| Distributed by | Energee Entertainment 20th Century Fox (Australia and US) Icon Productions Warner Bros. Family Entertainment (UK) |
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75 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Box office | A$1,054,893 (Australia) |
The Magic Pudding is a 2000 Australian animated movie based on the story of the same name by Norman Lindsay.
In the South Pole in the year 1957, Bill Barnacle and his crew are cruising across the waters when their ship crashes. The crew run out of food and are starving and their evil shipmate Buncle wants to eat Sam (The first mate). However they discover a magic pudding called Albert that can talk, change flavour on request, lasts forever and demands that they continue to eat him. The crew are divided over the pudding but two of them resolve to protect and look after it. Ten years later in 1967 a young koala named Bunyip Bluegum discovers that he is not an orphan and sets out on a quest to find his parents, Meg and Tom Bluegum. The old crew and the koala paths cross on the road when Bunyip stumbles into the middle of an attempt by thieves to steal the everlasting pudding from Bill and his first mate Sam.
The film was first released in Australia on 14 December 2000.
The VHS tape and DVD were released in Australia in May 2001.
It was then released in New Zealand four months later after the Australian release on 9 April 2001.
A re-release of the DVD was released in Australia in 2013.
The Magic Pudding received mixed reviews. Although there's no approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes yet, the Audience Score is currently 54%.
The soundtrack was recorded by the Marionette Theatre of Australia and released in the next year after the movie on 14 July 2001.
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