Meet Albert, The Magic Pudding, Bunyip Bluegum, a splendid young koala and his seafaring friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff. Together they fight off the bungled attempts of pudding thieves, Possum and Wombat, and try to solve the mystery of Bunyip's parents' disappearance.
Acting
John Cleese's pudding opera numbers deserve Grammy recognition
Practical Effects
Bizarre hybrid of 2D/3D animation that haunts and delights
Writing
Norman Lindsay's 1918 nonsense poetry somehow survived adaptation
Director
Karl Zwicky
Sam Neill
Sam Sawnoff (voice)
Hugo Weaving
Bill Barnacle (voice)
John Cleese
Albert the Magic Pudding (voice)
Geoffrey Rush
Bunyip Bluegum (voice)
Peter Gwynne
Benjamin Brandysnap (voice)
Jack Thompson
Buncle (voice)
Mary Coustas
Ginger (voice)
Sandy Gore
Frog on the Log (voice)
Toni Collette
Meg Bluegum (voice)
Roy Billing
Tom Bluegum (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Norman Lindsay's 1918 children's book, a beloved Australian classic so weird it makes Bananas in Pyjamas look like documentary realism.
This film features FOUR Oscar winners (Weaving, Rush, Cleese, Neill) voicing animated dessert theft. The 2000 Australian film industry was clearly operating on pure chaos energy.
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