Release Dates:
- 30th March 2012 (UK, USA) -
Directors: Peter Lord, Jeff Newitt
Stars: Hugh Grant, Brendan Gleeson, David Tennant,
Aardman Studios (those lovely people behind such classics as Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run) are back with their latest full length stop animation feature- The Pirates! Band of Misfits aka The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists. Peter Lord also returns to the directors chair for the first time since the aforementioned Chicken Run.
The Pirate Captain (Grant) is an eccentric and overly enthusiastic man which makes up for his less than successful terror of the High Seas. With his rag-tag crew at his beck and call, and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to the much coveted Pirate Of The Year Award. The quest takes him and his crew from the shores of exotic Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London. Along the way they battle a diabolical queen (Imelda Staunton) and team up with a haplessly smitten young scientist (David Tennant), but never lose sight of what a pirate loves best: adventure!
From what the trailer gives us it looks to be full of laughs and the clay models look painstakingly well detailed. Whether Grant can pull of any kind of pirate, animation or not, is yet to be seen but it's hard to imagine that this is going to be anything other than entertaining. I will be watching this one for sure!
Rating: A
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