Thursday, November 15, 2012

The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)

Columbia Pictures
Directed by Peter Lord
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray 3D, Sony)

Computer animation is used to simulate stop-motion animation, in 3-D naturally, with less than optimal results. It lacks the warmth and artistic nuances of real stop-motion. Anyway, it's a fairly predictable modern story of a pirate who wants desperately to be "pirate of the year". He fails to get it the usual way, by robbing ships, but when Charles Darwin informs him that his pet parrot is actually a rare dodo bird, they set off to London in the hopes of winning gold in another contest, this one for scientists. It all happens at a breakneck pace with a bombastic musical score, subtle it is not. Still, the recreation of Victorian London is appealing and there are enough brief asides addressed to the adults in the audience to keep it interesting.

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