The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists.

Captain Blackadder...Hugh Grant..The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists.

There is something I really admire about Aardman Animations. I'm not sure wither it's the amazing animation or the hard work they put into their films but they really stand out as one of the best movie making companies in the 21st Century. The Pirates! lives 100% to it's expectations, just like it's predecessors, Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of The Were-Rabbit. It's funny, with gags-a-minute, the characters are likeable and it's got a great story. There are several films out this Easter, Mirror Mirror, a bad retelling of the Snow White story and Wrath of The Titans, a CGI adventure bore, if your child begs you to go the any these films, just say no and give them a history lesson and a great film rolled it one. I suppose it's like Horrible Histories except funnier. It tells the story of the dim Pirate Captain, played by Hugh Grant and his motley crew who accidently try to rob Charles Darwin's ship. It then leads to an adventure with what I believe as a mild cameo, scientists. The baddie is great with hints of Imelda Staunton's Dolores Umbridge kicking in. It's like Monty Python and Blackadder on the high seas.




5/5