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	McDull - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		McDull is a male pig who can be distinguished by a birthmark on his right eye.
		However McDull's mother once thought that he's a girl and had made a joke that Darby was dating her son.
		McDull, the prince of the pineapple bun with butter) shown in cinemas in Hong Kong.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/McDull (1128 words)

	My Life as McDull - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The film surrounds the life of McDull, a hugely popular cartoon pig character created by Alice Mak and Brian Tse which has appeared on comics ever since the 1990s.
		McDull is not the brightest kid on the block, but he incessantly tries to do his best to delight his mother.
		It uses a number of contemporary CG animations in several scenes to illustrate the urban Hong Kong, but it skilfully shows Hong Kong as the dirty conurbation it is rather than the high-pitched clean cityscape that many travel advertisements like to portray.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/My_life_as_McDull (496 words)

	McDull, Prince De La Bun
		As the story of McDull's errant father becomes the focus of the film, it becomes increasingly difficult not to be moved by the themes it tackles.
		The adult McDull's statement that while his father was desperate to be in the past and his mother always looked to the future, he was alone in the present, is a line that resonates long after the credits roll.
		With musings on death, love, nostalgia and responsibility, 'McDull, Prince De La Bun' is a mature work that provides entertainment with enough substance to appeal to every generation, with characters that it's impossible not to care about.
	www.dragonsdenuk.com /reviews/mcdull_prince_de_la_bun.htm (687 words)

	Chinese Movie Review \| My Life as McDull (2001)
		At its core, "McDull" is a touching and heartwarming story about a single mother struggling to survive in a city where she and her son are average.
		McDull struggles to give her son everything he wants, while at the same time hiding the fact that she can't afford most of it from him.
		McDull, a single mom who made a wish to a flying pan (just go with it) when she was in labor with McDull.
	www.beyondhollywood.com /reviews/mcdull.htm (888 words)

	My Life as McDull (2001)
		While McDull's school mates are an assortment of ducks, cows, and turtles this is not a cutesy movie.
		The film is a an adventurous combination of techniques from classical animation for the characters, to CGI for pans and zooms around the city, to what appear to be paper cut outs for vehicles in the city streets and rows of buildings.
		My Life as McDull is one of the few Hong Kong movies that I can, enthusiastically, recommend to all ages, though, unless you understand Cantonese, you'll need to be a reader.
	notcomingsoon.com /MyLifeAsMcDull.htm (348 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features
		McDull -- his mom wanted to name him "McNificent" but decided to be more humble, so she went with "McDull" -- is a little lacking in brains, but he has a child's honest optimism and faith that make him one of the most charming characters ever in a cartoon.
		Narrated by a grown-up McDull, the film starts as a telling of a child's innocent hopes and dreams and becomes an adult's musings on who he is and what he wants from life.
		For instance, when McDull is sick and needs a shot, he fearfully envisions a monstrous patchwork machine with a gigantic needle on the end, chasing and jabbing at him until he runs through a door and falls a long, long way down into a pool of pink goop -- his cold medicine.
	starbulletin.com /2002/11/04/features/story2.html (495 words)

	Animation World Magazine
		McDull is based on a popular comic by Alice Mak (left) and directed by Toe Yuen, a former comics magazine editor and toy designer.
		McDull is based on a popular comic by Alice Mak and was directed by Toe Yuen, a former comics magazine editor and toy designer.
		McDull is a pig, plump and plush with an orange-ribbed eye, somewhat witless and sickly but with a great lazy parenthesis of a smile.
	mag.awn.com /?ltype=pageone&article_no=2707 (600 words)

	McDull, Prince de la Bun (2004)
		McDull was also the star of My Life as McDull, a winning 2001 animated film that was supposed to be for kids, but played pretty well to adults too.
		The meaning behind this: the principal is not a guy, but a type, and the world of McDull is a thinly disguised metaphor for the times in which we live.
		The visit to the site of her future grave is an event which sends McDull into sobs, and Mom tries to cheer up her porky kid by telling him a fairy tale about the "Prince de la Bun", a dimwitted pig who looks suspiciously like McDull, but clearly is not.
	www.lovehkfilm.com /reviews_2/mcdull_prince_de_la_bun.htm (1075 words)

	WFAC - Waterloo Festival For Animated Cinema 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		It was the story of the Prince de la Bun, a stupid little prince who left his palace, lost his way, and somehow became convinced that he had become a common, humble man, happy with his place in life.
		The sequel to the award-winning My Life as McDull (presented at WFAC 2003), director Toe Yuen once again paints a picture of Hong Kong life as it really is, and as it really was.
		McDull, Prince de la Bun continues the story of the little piglet McDull with cleverly crafted humour and sarcasm.
	www.wfac.ca /2004/festival/mcdull.html (583 words)

	My Life as McDull: review by Shelly Kraicer
		The narrative is constructed from several intertitled set pieces involving McDull’s birth, education, and training as would-be Olympian, with excursions to his mother’s TV cooking show, the Maldives, and other bits of whimsy.
		McDull isn’t a piglet at all, but a normal, if somewhat intellectually limited, little boy, whose typically ambitious mother pushes him into fabricating a dream world as compensation for her relentless pressure for success.
		McDull reveals itself to be the coming-of-age story of a little boy and a city that, under pressure from authority, invents identities, only to see them crumble when their contradictions become impossible to hide.
	www.chinesecinemas.org /mcdull.html (781 words)

	The Illuminated Lantern - Asian Cinema Reviews: My Life as McDull
		McDull is the story of a young pig, raised by his single mom in the city.
		A number of different animation styles are mixed together to present different episodes of McDull's life from his birth, to a trip to the Maldives, to a special turkey dinner, and lobbying for bun-snatching to become an olympic event.
		It is a bittersweet tale of hope, and resignation, and hope, and resignation, narrated by McDull as a grown up, which unfortunately does not reach a conclusion, but rather simply and clumsily ends.
	www.illuminatedlantern.com /cinema/review/archives/my_life_as_mcdull.php (224 words)

	12th Philadelphia Film Festival - Film Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		My Life as McDull is doubly enchanting, as the film displays a playful exuberance in both its unconventional plotting and its innovative animation technique.
		McDull interweaves 2-D hand-drawn animated figures with state-of-the-art three-dimensional computer animation of Hong Kong's bustling streets, augmented by live-action footage.
		But the film is not just a technical treat, as McDull offers a detailed and fascinating view of contemporary Hong Kong culture, and the resiliency of its people in a time of current economic uncertainty.
	www.phillyfests.com /pff/2003/templates/film_details.cfm?id=1545 (216 words)

	thetyee.ca Brainymation
		McDull is a little pig who just isn't that smart, despite his mother's ambitions for him.
		The most intricate part of the story isn't McDull's absent father, nor even the precarious balance between old and new, urban towers and rural cemeteries by the sea.
		When McDull's mother decides to make up her own fairytale instead of reading Harry Potter to her son, she charts her hopes for him and her regrets about her own life in high absurdist style.
	thetyee.ca /Entertainment/2004/10/01/Brainymation (1468 words)

	My Life As McDull
		I was drawn to 'My Life As McDull' for the aforementioned reason and the simple fact that animated features in Hong Kong are so rare that they tend to induce curiosity.
		McDull is a young pig growing up in Hong Kong with his strong-minded, yet adoring mother.
		The familiar ideas of the innocence of childhood and its admirable wonder at the world around forms the film's main thread, with the execution of these ideals proving to be a major part its triumph (added to the fact that McDull is a very lovable central character).
	www.dragonsdenuk.com /reviews/my_life_as_mcdull.htm (547 words)

	McDull, prince de la bun (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		If there's a sweet, neurotic porker on the screen, it's got to be McDull – and what a joy it is to see him again.
		If you've seen the first McDull film, then you'll be somewhat familiar with the aesthetic magic of these films – the external veneer of expressive cuteness, set within a photo-realistic CG backdrop of urban decay and construction.
		McDull: Prince de la Bun is certainly every ounce as good as its predecessor.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0419954 (324 words)

	My Life as McDull (2001)
		Massive voice-over from an adult McDull (voiced by Jan Lam) narrates this episodic tale of young McDull's experiences with hope and disappointment as he and his mother (voiced by Sandra Ng) struggle through their low-income lives.
		McDull was born dimwitted despite his mother's prayers for a handsome, smart son.
		McDull and his mother may be animated pigs, but their lives are those of working class Hong Kong residents.
	www.lovehkfilm.com /reviews/my_life_as_mcdull.htm (686 words)

	Chinese Movie Review \| McDull: Prince De La Bun (2004)
		Elementary school student McDull is once again back in action, stumbling through life with his quirky, acid-tongued mother while at the same time trying to uncover answers to why his leg keeps shaking.
		We understand her a lot more, as well as sympathize with the poor woman, whose only hope nowadays seems to be waiting for the urban renewal program to reach her apartment so she can sell out as quickly as possible.
		McDull himself hasn't changed a bit, which seems about right since little time has passed between the sequel and the original.
	www.beyondhollywood.com /reviews/mcdull2.htm (789 words)

	Sheepish Somniloquy: Chez aries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		McDull is as ordinary as you and me. He fails most of the time.
		McDull movie beat the oscar winner of the best animation, Spirit Away (Sei to Chihiro no kamikakushi), and won the Grand Prix in the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France.
		The movie is the reminiscence of McDull, who grows from a not-so-bright little piggy into a not-so-bright adult pig.
	www.20six.co.uk /nextEntries/1vqn8nbhqcnd2 (951 words)

	Siu Fung's Extra Really Unneeded Why-Not Space
		Though, as is the tradition with the McDull series, the film is not totally critical of the situation, but merely points out that people should simply be grateful for the important things in life...
		Speaking of work, McDull, The Alumni is merciless when making fun of the mundane life inside an office. Some parts of the film feels like Hong Kong's version of Office Space, with weird characters co-existing with the only purpose of "finding food".
		While the two previous McDull films were totally animated, the latest one is mostly live-action, with a couple of animated segments.
	spaces.msn.com /siufung1981 (1732 words)

	Mak dau goo si (2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Plot Outline: McDull is not the brightest kid on the block, but he continuously tries to do his best to please his mother.
		MY LIFE AS MCDULL could have almost been perfect, telling a heartwarming tale of a devoted son and his equally devoted mother.
		MY LIFE AS MCDULL is a nearly flawless animation, with some inspired panoramic views of the overcrowded Hong Kong.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0312941 (378 words)

	McDull: Prince de la Bun
		McDull’s Spring Flower Kindergarten is slated for redevelopment, along with the young piglet’s home and much of Hong Kong.
		McDull then develops a perplexing leg-jiggling tic, with which he makes virtuoso performances to Bach.
		In an effort to cheer the jiggling McDull, Mrs McBing tells him the tale of his “moronic” old man — a prince who got lost and thought he was a humble commoner, and then left her alone to raise their son while he recaptured his regal past.
	www.heroic-cinema.com /reviews/mcprince (116 words)

	My Life as McDull
		The greater one is the result of the humbly named McDull (as opposed to, say, McNificent or McMug) being, for the most part,...and there really is no way getting past this...a cartoon character: To be precise, an animated piglet.
		If the porcine physical form of this cute creation of Alice Mak (who is billed as the art director of this Toe Yuen directed plus edited film) did not already confer a large amount of novelty onto his person, his aspirations surely would.
		To wit, at one end of this artistic equation is a section of MY LIFE AS MCDULL that daringly, even while modestly, consists of not much more than minimalist -- yet, as it turns out, not at all uninteresting -- fl lead pencil on mono-colored craft paper sketchings.
	www.brns.com /pages4/comed143.html (494 words)

	Quick-Takes - M
		McDull himself may have developed great calves from his bun snatching training but not being able to utilize that, he's developed leg shaking, much to his mothers distress.
		McDull deviates from the usual Harry Potter bedtime story one night and instead brings us the boring, as the narration warns us, story of Prince de la Bun, all while we're scratching our heads as to what is going on.
		McDull, Prince De La Bun still is about dreams and that you have to do well in the moment in order to be well in the future but explores it in a much more somber way, making the film actually less suitable for the kids this time around.
	www.sogoodreviews.com /reviews/m.htm (8657 words)

	Minneapolis - St. Paul International Film Festival CALENDAR
		Animated pig McDullâs second outing (his first was â01âs My Life as McDull) isnât a traditional sequel.
		McDull and his mother spend their days collecting odds and ends and desperately trying to cure McDullâs rabid leg shake.
		We watch heartbroken as little McBing wanders from his castle, finds solace in a young turtle whose head is largely comprised of a pizza pie, and passes his mundane middle years in a complacent stupor.
	mnfilmarts.org /m-spiff/2005/calendar_detail.php?id=370 (226 words)

	hkdvdstore.com
		The first McDull movie, directed by Toe Yuen and written by Brian Tse, recently scooped the top prize at France’s Annecy animation festival and will be released in France next week (July 2) on around 50 screens.
		The second feature continues the adventures of McDull, an optimistic piglet that first came to life in a Hong Kong comic strip 13 years ago.
		My Life As McDull has impressed critics at several international film festivals and was picked up last year for worldwide distribution by Hong Kong-based Golden Network Asia.
	shop.hkdvdstore.com /newsdesk_info.php?newsdesk_id=28 (385 words)

	My, My, My!
		Toe Yuen's My Life as McDull has the look of children's film, and the music, but the tone and the scope constantly resist objectification.
		While giving birth, McDull's mother wishes for her son to be endowed with great looks, tremendous intellect, and financial success.
		Even though McDull never quite succeeds in any of his attempts at glory, he comes to some understanding of his place in life, and at the very end, finds some special meaning in it all.
	www.cinescene.com /reviews/mymymy.htm (915 words)

	My Life as McDull
		Well, McDull is here to remind us that it is bullshit -being a kid was often pretty damn hard least of all as a piglet growing up in the slums of Shamshuipo against the backdrop the economic Asian recession.
		The relation of McDull and his mama [voiced by comedienne, Sandra Ng] is the crux of the film, providing many delightful moments of pathos.
		Despite not being blessed with looks, brains or luck, McDull is a tough little piglet who realises early on he can only succeed on his own four trotters.
	www.heroic-cinema.com /films/my_life_as_mcdull.htm (440 words)

	McDull, Prince De La Bun [LE 2-Disc Set] DVD \| dir.: Toe Yuen (Kin To) \| cast: Andy Lau Tak-Wah, Sandra Ng Kwun-Yu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Obsessed with delusions of grandeur as The Pineapple Bun Prince, McDull's father is lost to his kingdom, his love, and his awesome rose in his memory...
		To make way for a better tomorrow, in McDull's hometown, a sprawl of old housing is coming down like ten pins.
		Except for McDull's father, who long ago abandoned all interest in what lies ahead and set off to find a fantasy in his life.
	www.hkflix.com /xq/asp/filmID.531872/aid.023373/qx/details.htm (451 words)

	Sheepish Somniloquy: The wishes of a not so bright little piggy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		however, i interpret mcdull's supposed trip to the maldives as the evidence of his mother's love.
		i think mcdull is a really heartwarming tale, the seemingly stupid (well, at least in my opinion, stupid) scenes were just a way to show the innocent affection of the mother and child.
		all are hurt badly after years, mcdull reminded us of the long-lost naivety.
	www.20six.co.uk /weblogEntry/14qwk4rk773b1 (627 words)

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