The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 144
Fresh: 124 | Rotten: 20
It may not quite scale Aardman's customary delirious heights, but The Pirates! still represents some of the smartest, most skillfully animated fare that modern cinema has to offer.
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 28 | Rotten: 1
It may not quite scale Aardman's customary delirious heights, but The Pirates! still represents some of the smartest, most skillfully animated fare that modern cinema has to offer.
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In The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Hugh Grant stars in his first animated role as the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain - a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), 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
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Cast
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Hugh Grant
Pirate Captain, The Pir... -
Brendan Gleeson
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Martin Freeman
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David Tennant
Charles Darwin -
Imelda Staunton
Queen Victoria -
Brian Blessed
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Jeremy Piven
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Salma Hayek
Cutlass Liz -
Lenny Henry
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Anton Yelchin
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Ashley Jensen
The Surprisingly Curvac... -
Al Roker
The Pirate who Likes Su... -
Mike Cooper
Admiral -
David Schneider
Scarlett Morgan -
Tom Doggart
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Sophie Jerrold
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Sophie Laughton
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Peter Lord
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Kayvan Novak
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David Schaal
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Ben Whitehead
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Russell Tovey
Albino Pirate
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All Critics (145) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (124) | Rotten (20) | DVD (1)
The action is beautifully staged, delightful, and exciting.
Top CriticThe filmmakers have said they are already dreaming up a sequel. They needn't hurry. Whatever treasures these pirates have are well buried.
To paraphrase a certain man with a certain luxuriant beard, it's only impossible to enjoy if you stop to think about it.
Pirates are right up there with vampires, werewolves and people saying "LOL" out loud on the list of Played-Out Pop Culture Phenomena, but leave it to Aardman Animation to find the remaining reservoirs of fun in a bunch of seafaring scalawags.
Designed to please all generations of irreverent humour-lovers, The Pirates! Band of Misfits may not be heart-warming (it is about nasty, scurvy pirates!) but it's breezy rollicking fun.
You may laugh more than the child who brought you to "The Pirates! Band of Misfits," a subtly screwball animated comedy with a distinctively British wit.
This is one of the few times I watched something from Aardman and found myself watching the clock...
This is a good Aardman Animations feature, from a studio that's proved itself capable of being better than good.
The Pirates! Band of Misfits is cinematic booty that shines like gold.
The Pirates! is the first truly great animated film of the year: a painstakingly-modelled laugh riot that boggles the mind while tickling the funnybone.
Though not as laugh-out-loud funny as their best work, there's plenty of wry smiles to be had.
It's got great vocal talent and well-done animation, but it proves once again that the story is the key ingredient.
A rollicking good time that offers enough broad comedy mixed with more cerebral sight gags to ensure this will be a family favourite for years to come.
It's full of jokes for adults that will fly right over kids' heads, but retains just enough plot conflict and slapstick to keep younger audiences involved as well.
The Aardman folks might not have created a pirate film to rival the big screen's best, but they've created a subtle parody of pirate movies that's well worth watching.
Yes, the film feels childish, but in the best possible way.
There's comic treasure in this animated feature
... enough amusing throwaway gags to keep us entertained.
The Pirates! Band of Misfits deserves two doubloons up. It shivered me funny bone.
The fun, infectious tone is set early on and never peters out. The humor is kind of like Monty Python for kids.
Droll and charming, and will probably appeal more to fans of Monty Python and 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' than to young kids...
This is a very funny, very good looking movie getting lost in the fray.
Warning to all ye who enter: drollery, Pythonesque absurdity, and some smartly silly swashbuckling with history ahead. The dark corners of wooden ships and buildings ground the zaniness in Victorian atmosphere, so even modern jokes sail smoothly along.
The best laughs come around the fringes, with great throwaway gags and Grant's usual self-deprecating way with dialogue.
Audience Reviews for The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Nate's Grade: A
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- The Pirate Captain: You'll see. I will be Pirate of the Year! And then you'll be laughing on the other side of your faces. And believe me, that is a very painful thing to do.
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- The Pirate Captain: [looks at Charles Darwin's house] You don't get many girls, do you?
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- The Pirate Captain: Now listen Charles, we've all done something unforgivable. I've betrayed my pirate honor, you've betrayed science, and Mr. Bobo's betrayed the animal kingdom.
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- The Albino Pirate: Wee! I'm a floating head!
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- The Pirate Captain: She's not fat, she's just 'big boned'.
- Black Bellamy: She's fat dude.
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- Pirate Captain: Its us, the pirates, masters of disguise.
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Foreign Titles
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