The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

PG 6.7
2012 1 hr 28 min Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Family

The luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain is a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side, and 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 battle a diabolical queen and team up with a haplessly smitten young scientist, but never lose sight of what a pirate loves best: adventure!

  • Cast:
    Martin Freeman , Hugh Grant , Imelda Staunton , David Tennant , Jeremy Piven , Salma Hayek Pinault , Lenny Henry

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Reviews

AniInterview
2012/04/27

Sorry, this movie sucks

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Stometer
2012/04/28

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

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Forumrxes
2012/04/29

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

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Mandeep Tyson
2012/04/30

The acting in this movie is really good.

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TheMunkeyBoy
2012/05/01

Watched this with my kids (Aged 5, 10 and 13). They all loved it, laughing and rewinding parts to see again and again. I expected little but, ended up loving it. Pretty funny. Similar style to "Flushed Away" - witty, fun and a great adventure

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Mihai Toma
2012/05/02

Pirate Captain leads a pirate ship full of clumsy characters who support him in whatever he does. Too bad that he's not much different from them and as a result, he's never won anything in his entire career. So, determined more than ever to win the Pirate of the Year award, he sets out to find the biggest treasure he can find. Unfortunately, his stubborn and foolish personality leads him into various traps from which he must escape over and over again (with the irreplaceable help of Number Two) hopefully achieving his goal until the end. It's an entertaining piece of animation, determined to put a smile on your face with almost everything it does. Regrettably, it's being let down by a quite superficial and predictable story. It is enjoyable throughout the picture and lovely animated making it a good animated comedy overall.

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Adam Foidart
2012/05/03

"The Pirates! Band of Misfits" is very funny, ranging from slapstick humour to subtle puns and historical references in the background. The film looks amazing and once it comes out on home video, it will be one of those films you can use to show off the difference in picture quality between Dvds and Blu-rays. There is so much attention to detail paid to every frame of the film that even if the main joke isn't doing it for you, there's something in the background that will make you laugh or catch your eye. The story isn't as strong as expected from Aardman studios, but it's still so much fun that it's an easy recommendation for children or adults. (3-D theatrical version on the big screen, May 22nd, 2012).

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RocketeerFlyer
2012/05/04

Although I'm a fan of the "Wallace & Gromit" short films I must admit to being disappointed by the longer made feature films from Aardman Animation (Both "Chicken Run" & "Curse of the Wererabbit" left me a bit cold) so colour me surprised when I picked this up as an impulse buy, popped it into my machine and found myself simply shocked as to how much I enjoyed it.THE PIRATES in AN ADVENTURE with SCIENTISTS is without doubt the BEST British Animated Film of ALL-TIME and these Pirates would put up a great fight with most others.Hugh Grant is awesome as the Pirate Captain as is the hilarious Imelda Staunton as Queen Victoria.Your kids are gonna love the MONKEY too.This movie is always amusing and is filled with great humour & characters, the imagination of the makers runs riot in this film & the animation (mainly stop-motion in the same brilliant vain as Ray Harryhausen's) is nothing short of brilliant.Had I not made this impulsive buy I might have had to wait years to have seen this truly amazing film (it probably helps if your British or a fan of British culture but I still think the humour is World-Wide) Who would have thought a cheap impulse buy would have turned out to be one of my all-time favourite films...for I shall watch this MANY MANY MANY Times in the future as i'm sure there's tons of jokes, quips and in-jokes that I missed first time around.THIS IS A BEAUTY & Rates as one of the BEST Children's / Family Films I've ever seen.If your British expect to see this on Christmas Day on BBC1 probably around 2015 as it's one for ALL the Family to enjoy.WELL DONE AARDMAN ANIMATION....Any chance of a PIRATES 2? RocketeerFlyer Rating of an UP UP & AWAY 9/10

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