Guest Review by Kyle Kuzemchak
However, after many failed attempts in obtaining booty, raiding a plague boat and a geography field trip boat, he comes across the boat of Charles Darwin (David Tennant, Dr. Who). Some of the best jokes in the film revolve around Darwin, including a few evolution jokes and many others about how he’ll never get a girlfriend. Darwin sees that The Pirate Captain’s parrot is not a parrot, but in fact a dodo, an extinct bird, and he tries to steal the bird to impress the Queen of England, who hates pirates. So the pirate crew must disguise themselves and constantly avoid danger in London, “the most dramatic city on Earth.”
As if the talent and the humor wasn’t enough, the movie’s soundtrack was absolutely perfect. When the crew first decides to go to London to present the dodo to the scientists there, The Clash’s “London Calling” begins to play. Then, in what is now one of my favorite uses of music in any movie, the Flight of the Conchords’ song, “Not Crying,” begins to play as the characters have a falling out, marking the “low” point of the movie. The Pirates! Band of Misfits is a silly, shenanigan-filled adventure, and is one of the funniest movies to come out in a long time.
The Final Word: Go Buy a Ticket
The Pirates! Band of Misfits, the newest movie from Aardman Animations (the brilliant minds behind Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run), is of the most swashbuckling, booty-plundering, hilarious movies to come out in a very long time. The movie opens with witty British humor and it continues throughout the whole movie. There was plenty of slapstick humor for kids, but the film doesn’t rely on these gags, rather on its incredible one-liners and their impeccable timing and delivery.
Everything about this movie makes it a pleasurable experience, from the writing, to the voice actors, to the amazing soundtrack, to the brilliant animation (the backgrounds, especially the ocean, are absolutely gorgeous).
The movie follows a pirate crew and their whimsical pirate captain, aptly named “The Pirate Captain” (Hugh Grant, Four Weddings and a Funeral). The names of the crew are hilariously literal, from Pirate Captain’s number 2, The Pirate with a Scarf (Martin Freeman, Sherlock/The Hobbit), The Albino Pirate (Anton Yelchin, Star Trek), The Pirate with Gout (Brendan Gleeson, Harry Potter), The Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate (who is actually a woman with an incredibly awful fake beard), and my personal favorite, The Pirate Who Likes Sunsets and Kittens, voiced by TV’s Al Roker.
The movie follows a pirate crew and their whimsical pirate captain, aptly named “The Pirate Captain” (Hugh Grant, Four Weddings and a Funeral). The names of the crew are hilariously literal, from Pirate Captain’s number 2, The Pirate with a Scarf (Martin Freeman, Sherlock/The Hobbit), The Albino Pirate (Anton Yelchin, Star Trek), The Pirate with Gout (Brendan Gleeson, Harry Potter), The Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate (who is actually a woman with an incredibly awful fake beard), and my personal favorite, The Pirate Who Likes Sunsets and Kittens, voiced by TV’s Al Roker.
The story follows The Pirate Captain and his crew on a plundering journey, so that he can get the most amount of booty in the world and win the coveted Pirate of the Year Award. But he has stiff competition, going up against Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek, Frida), Peg Leg Hastings, and Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven, Entourage), who makes the best screen-entrance in the history of film.
However, after many failed attempts in obtaining booty, raiding a plague boat and a geography field trip boat, he comes across the boat of Charles Darwin (David Tennant, Dr. Who). Some of the best jokes in the film revolve around Darwin, including a few evolution jokes and many others about how he’ll never get a girlfriend. Darwin sees that The Pirate Captain’s parrot is not a parrot, but in fact a dodo, an extinct bird, and he tries to steal the bird to impress the Queen of England, who hates pirates. So the pirate crew must disguise themselves and constantly avoid danger in London, “the most dramatic city on Earth.”
As if the talent and the humor wasn’t enough, the movie’s soundtrack was absolutely perfect. When the crew first decides to go to London to present the dodo to the scientists there, The Clash’s “London Calling” begins to play. Then, in what is now one of my favorite uses of music in any movie, the Flight of the Conchords’ song, “Not Crying,” begins to play as the characters have a falling out, marking the “low” point of the movie. The Pirates! Band of Misfits is a silly, shenanigan-filled adventure, and is one of the funniest movies to come out in a long time.
The Final Word: Go Buy a Ticket
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