The Pirates! In An Adventure with Scientists

[kevinknapman]

Not sure I should say to much about this obviously but I thought it was wonderful. Very funny, beautifully detailed and enjoyable fast-paced. The story is slight but this is all about the detail and what wonderful detail it is. One you'd probably have to watch more than once to catch it all. It also had plenty of genuinely surprising moments.

Here are a few of my favourite moments (Hidden behind a spoiler of course)
[spoiler]The anachronistic soundtrack from The Clash through to (most surprisingly) Flight of the Conchords. The pub signs and posters including the one promising 'Live Sports - Urchin Throwing, Cockney Baiting', "That's not a scientist, that's a girl guide", the Elephant Man cameo[/spoiler]

That's only a few of course but there is so much more to enjoy. The voice cast was excellent though I particularly liked Russell Tovey's albino pirate. I actually just about preferred this to Arthur Christmas (which I also loved), mainly because this had a stronger surreal edge and was more surprising.

[elski]

Free book: The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

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[sikmansam]

Free book: The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

Don't miss the Guardian on Saturday 17 March for your free copy of The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
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Good find! I'll definitely pick one up at my local Tesco

[anakin]

Free book: The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

Don't miss the Guardian on Saturday 17 March for your free copy of The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/compet ... sfeed=true

Don't forget this is tomorrow!

[Beate]

I also dont think the film is a great role model for kids either with the shocking scenes of sword stabbings (complete with sound of sword going into flesh). The protagonists pirates are also murderous (eg, using the plank on innocents etc). Its all fun for the adults but just not sure about the little kiddies.

If you think there was too much of this in the film, read the book on which this is based. I've just finished it and there is an astounding amount of casual violence in it, which I guess they decided to cut as it wasn't really the done thing in a kid's film.
They have also changed an amazing amount of things from the book - in fact, the whole story is competely different. Yes, there is Charles Darwin in it and a visit to London, but that's about it. It's a very peculiar story and I am not sure I like it at all.

[sikmansam]

Meet the Filmmakers: Peter Lord and Hugh Grant

Join two-time Academy Award® nominee Peter Lord and actor Hugh Grant (Notting Hill, Love Actually) as they discuss their new film, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists. Lord is co-founder of Aardman and the director and a producer of the studio’s new stop-frame animated feature, featuring Hugh Grant in his first animated role. Come early as seating is limited.

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

This will be at the Apple Store in Regent Street, tonight

[Beate]

http://www.heyuguys.co.uk/2012/03/23/th ... ts-review/

[superhero]

Lol, I thought this comment referred to the Hunger Games!!

I also dont think the film is a great role model for kids either with the shocking scenes of sword stabbings (complete with sound of sword going into flesh). The protagonists pirates are also murderous (eg, using the plank on innocents etc). Its all fun for the adults but just not sure about the little kiddies.

If you think there was too much of this in the film, read the book on which this is based. I've just finished it and there is an astounding amount of casual violence in it, which I guess they decided to cut as it wasn't really the done thing in a kid's film.
They have also changed an amazing amount of things from the book - in fact, the whole story is competely different. Yes, there is Charles Darwin in it and a visit to London, but that's about it. It's a very peculiar story and I am not sure I like it at all.

[superhero]

They really should do something about the film title though, it's awful. Yes I know it's the name of the book, but they need something more snappy for a film title.
Even the US version, The Pirates! Band of Misfits is not any better.

[prettyxcool]

Saw this on Friday at the Sony Pictures offices on Golden Square. Nice offices. I was early and was first there into reception, and last downstairs, don't you just hate that! Should not have sat down, but stood by the entrance in readiness. So by the time we checked our phones in, most of the food were almost gone, although I got the last bit of jamon. There were lots of ham sandwiches, big slices of cheese and egg flan and salad, but not enough plates to go round, so we improvised and used a lot of serviettes instead. The den of geek guy went around handing out the book to the kiddies, signed by the author, and apologised to us that it was only for the children.

Lovely to meet thedude and his OH for the first time. Nice to see EthanRunt, valda, jeancomp and pcrock.

After the food and plenty of drink we went into the screening room, with very comfy seats at the back which went back when you leaned backwards. The den of geek guy then introduced the evening, thanking Sony for the use of their offices, so that there may be more future events, and one condition of seeing this preview screening was to tweet or post on facebook about the film afterwards. Then we were told the surprise guest was the author, Gideon Defoe, giving up his time in his busy schedule to come and talk to us, and before he appeared, we had a practice run of shouting loudly, pirate fashion, "arrrr" in appreciation of the author coming to talk to us! After a quite funny talk from the author, we had time for about four questions, one was from the den of geek's son, proud father was gushing.


The film was fun and amusing but felt very much aimed for young children. It was good natured and very Aardman,[spoiler](scenes like the bath tub and hiding the parrot in the beard)[/spoiler] entertaining and definitely very detailed. Thought Queen Victoria was the best bit. Really livened up the film and story. We got some really heavy 3D glasses, but I brought my own, did not make any difference to enjoying the 3D. The 3D was useless, added nothing to the film, except made it darker, and I think our projection was really bad, did anyone else see it get brighter than darker and brighter and darker throughout, and the 3D not working properly in some places where it was supposed to be 3D?

7/10