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The Pirates! Band of Misfits
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
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Animation
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Action
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Adventure
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Family
In The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captainis joined by a rag-tag crew. With seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz to the much coveted Pirate Of The Year Award. It's a quest that takes our heroes from the shores of exotic Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London. Along the way they do battle with the pirate-hating Queen Victoria and team up with a young Charles Darwin, but never lose sight of what a pirate loves best: adventure!
Cast:
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
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Hugh Grant
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Brendan Gleeson
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Jeremy Piven
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Brian Blessed
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Salma Hayek
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David Tennant
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Ashley Jensen
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Martin Freeman
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Imelda Staunton
Writers:
Gideon Defoe
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Directors:
Peter Lord
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3/5 Stars.
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PIRATES! IN AN ADVENTURE WITH SCIENTISTS (UK/G/88mins)
Directed by Peter Lord. Jeff Newitt. Starring the voices of Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek, Brendan Gleeson, Martin Freeman, David Tennant, Jeremy Piven, Brian Blessed.
THE PLOT: Based on the first of a series of comic novels by Gideon Defoe, this swashbuckling tale sees our highly incompetent plasticine pirates setting sail on CG seas, out to win the coveted Pirate Of The Year award. All seems lost until they happen upon Charles Darwin (Tennant), who quickly recognizes that the captain’s ungainly parrot is in fact a very rare, very prize-worthy dodo. Such a discovery would put Pirate Captain (Grant) on the map. And his motley crew off everyone’s laughing stock list.
THE VERDICT: You can’t help but come over a little Jeffrey Katzenberg when watching this latest Aardman Animation big-screen onslaught – a little tweeking here and there, and this could be so much funnier, and faster, and far more fandabidozi. As it is, Pirates! is full of that old plasticine charm and that particular brand of ye olde English chuckles - which is what you would expect from the creators of Wallace & Gromit, of course - but just not quite enough old plasticine charm and ye olde English chuckles. Ultimately, the film comes across – ironically, given that it’s the cardigan-and-slippers-toting Aardman - as far too eager, and busy, to truly please. RATING: 3/5
Review by Paul Byrne
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