Set in the hustle and bustle of Hong Kong, My Life as McDull follows a piglet child, McDull, who isn’t the smartest, the handsomest, and certainly not the fittest in the neighbourhood. In separate chapters, the pig-faced schoolboy dreams of visiting the Maldives, having a turkey for Christmas dinner, and becoming an Olympic Gold medalist like his hero, the windsurfer Lee Lai Shan. While his fantasies may not become a reality, McDull navigates the understandable limitations and minor disappointments of everyday life with his supportive, albeit overly ambitious, single mother, Mrs McDull.

The character of McDull originated as a comic strip published in Ming Pao Weekly. Resonating strongly with locals at the time, the cartoon by Brian Tse and Alice Mak was then developed into a feature animation in 1998. Upon its theatrical release, the film earned acclaim for its down-to-earth Cantonese usage and word plays, its pop culture references, and its reflections on actual events and the economic difficulties of an ordinary family, portraying a lesser-known side of Hong Kong.

Toe Yuen (b. Hong Kong) is a director and writer of feature-length animations. After graduating from film studies in Hong Kong Baptist University, Yuen became known for directing My Life as McDull (2001) and its sequel McDull, Prince de la Bun (2004). He later directed CJ7 – The Animation (2010), and co-directed A Decade of Love (2008) and The Great Detective Sherlock Holmes: The Great Jail-Breaker (2019).