AN award-winning US cartoon has soared on the worldwide Netflix charts with a movie set in Scotland featuring David Tennant and Michelle Gomez.
Nickelodeon’s The Loud House was created by Chris Savino and premiered in 2016, running for five seasons since.
It stars Lincoln Loud (Asher Bishop) who is the only boy in a family of eleven children residing in the imagined Michigan town of Royal Woods.
The Loud Family includes his sisters Lori, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn Jr, Lucy, Lana, Lola, Lisa and Lily.
David Tennant lends his voice-acting talents to the film
It was the top-rated children’s animated series on US TV within its first month, and has received GLAAD Media Awards for supporting characters Howard and Harold McBride, who are an interracial gay married couple.
The family’s latest adventure can be seen in The Loud House Movie, released on Netflix on August 20.
Promoting the flick, the streamer said: “With his parents and all 10 sisters in tow, Lincoln Loud heads to Scotland and learns that royalty runs in the family in this global musical journey!”
The Loud House Movie is currently the second-most watched movie of the week on streaming giant Netflix, sitting behind Jason Momoa’s Sweet Girl and ahead of The Witcher: Nightmare Of The Wolf, which is an animated prequel to the series starring Henry Cavill and Scottish actors including Graham McTavish.
It sits in second-place in the UK too, ahead of Memories Of A Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes.
Michelle Gomez is also a star of the film
The Loud family’s travels in Scotland see them meet characters including groundskeeper Angus, voiced by David Tennant, and castle caretaker Morag, voiced by Michelle Gomez.
It was written by Chris Savino, Kevin Sulivan and Chris Viscardi, and was directed by Dave Needham.
The movie sees Lisa of the Loud family discover that Lynn Sr’s side of the family hail from Scotland.
The kids are, understandably, in love with this fact, and Rita – Lynn Sr’s wife – agrees that it’s time for a holiday to our fine nation.
They eventually make their way to a Scottish town that they discover is named Loch Loud after their own family.
That’s when they meet Angus and Morag who reveal that the local castle is actually their ancestral home, and many hijinks ensue.
Director Needham had asked the writers of the film why Scotland was chosen specifically, with it previously specified only that the family was from Europe.
They replied that they had needed somewhere with a castle – and Needham, who grew up in Wales, immediately supported the choice, given that he has a sister living here.
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