Animation : Lower piddle compilation by Keith English

We are of course looking to raise funds to do this project. If anyone is interested in seeing the script please feel free to contact me. Here's the one paragraph premise ... LOWER PIDDLE, a quirky little village inhabited by even quirkier locals, lies deep in the English countryside beside the River Piddle, unknown to most anyone except the locals and the odd driver who takes a wrong turn. Its unfortunate “it’ll never-be-missed” ranking, leads the British Army, and their cranky curmudgeon, Major Mustard, to hone in on this little backwater hamlet, planning to forcibly sequester it as a missile range for their new Chinese built, and thus very cheap, Ball-Stinger missiles … of which only two have so far been completed. Mick and Ollie, two normally-dormant locals who’s worldly knowledge doesn’t stray far from the FAT COW PUB, decide that’s not on and take on Mustard and the army; cooking up a scheme to stop them by attracting those “two bruisers” Colin Farrell and Liam Neeson to move to the village; that is after they’ve seen the promo they’ll make. That doesn’t quite work out but it doesn’t stop them either. Not discouraged and now properly equipped, they push on to make their own Piddlewood gangster movie, to attract tourists and thus thwart the Army’s plans. But in the end it’s Sophia Bellamucca, the well endowed and freshly arrived Italian owner of the much anticipated Sophia’s Hand Lubrication Service, who both cuts off the Major’s balls … on the missiles of course … and wins Micky’s heart, ensuring they’ll live happily ever after in her “Magical Service Bay” … at least that’s what Micky says.

+1000 for a mature animated short!

Lower Piddle! ;-)

I spent my formative teen years in Dorset England near the real River Piddle. All of the villages along the river had Piddle names, like Piddletrentide, Piddethiswaite Piddlehinton etc, etc.. And so when it came to a "village" idea, what better I thought than to piddle around with that idea.

Well done.

Keith - best of luck with this project. I wet myself - and it has made all my mates chuckle. I'm intrigued though, the humor is so British - how has it gone down in America???

Thanks Andrew. Great to hear those reactions. While I have bits and pieces I obviously don't have any complete to even try to sell. I'd always seen it as a Brit project anyway so eventually I'd love to get it funded and even done over there. I have a feature script which is extremely Brit humor with the villagers trying to save their village from compulsory purchase order for a new army missile range for their Chinese built Ball-Stinger missiles. ;)