"Pirates Band of Misfits" G
The guys behind Wallace and Grommet and Chicken Run return with a swashbuckling parody of pirate movies complete Monty Python like bearded captain named Pirate Captain, appropriately, with a dodo bird for a parrot, who longs to win the coveted Pirate of the Year prize. His rivals are more interesting them he, in clay form, but he thinks he will win if he goes off to London. On the way he meets Darwin and eventually angers Queen Victoria, and as any good pirate movie should have, there is a big battle at the end, but it is so bizarre and ridiculous it's like watching the old Flying Circus shorts from Monty. Interestingly enough though it's Hugh Grant as the Captain. At times the adult humor and the kid humor don't jell and it becomes convoluted, but it works. It might make a good rental.
Review by Adam Browne
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