The Magic Pudding is a 2000 Australian animated musical adventure comedy film loosely adapted from the 1918 book of the same name by Norman Lindsay.

[1] Directed by Karl Zwicky, the film features a voice cast of well known actors including Sam Neill, Geoffrey Rush, Hugo Weaving, Jack Thompson, Toni Collette and John Cleese.

Bill and Sam manage to rescue the pudding, and after briefly mourning the apparent loss of Buncle, choose to protect it from thievery.

Realising they've solved the riddle and the found the right place, two gum trees overlooking a valley with a dam the feeds water into Tiralu.

The pudding owners arrive and Bunyip and Bill free the slaves while Sam distracts Buncle by dressing as a woman.

Eventually, in 1997, the Lindsays sold the film rights to Energee Entertainment, one of the country’s then-leading independent animation companies.

Although the film has yet to have an official DVD or Blu-ray release in North America, it is currently available for streaming on Amazon Prime and Roku.

The Magic Pudding was released to mixed reviews with most critics perceiving it as a failed attempt to do justice to Lindsay's work.

[4] Australian critics, such as Louise Keller, Andrew L. Urban, and David Edwards, have given the film positive reviews.