I enjoyed this film. YES, it's silly, mindless, cartoony nonsense BUT it's funny and just right when you want to escape the world via dancing dogs and talking animals.
The plot is derivative and cartoony, and the characters 2 dimensional types. BUT so what? It's not Shakespeare! The innocent family, dastardy baddie John Sessions, weak dodgy ending to a paper-thin plot BUT so what?
You watch this for the dancing dogs and talking animals...which I enjoyed greatly, esp the horses!
I loved this and I'm a cat lover! A shame that yet again the baddie is shown as a cat lover and cats get a bad press BUT tis has been standard in Hollywood for years.
I also wondered how the family can SELL a London house and end up renting in the countryside - the dad is missing/dead/divorced. All unexplained,
But so what? There are dancing dogs and talking farmyard animals! I loved the mad dog woman with the pink poodles too. I don't even like David Walliams but not even he can mess things up and his voice-over of Pudsey works.
Silly but funny - if you're in the right mood, it hits the spot. 4 stars
My advice: watch the original performance of Pudsey on Britain's Got Talent on YouTube before watching this.