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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
Aardman hasn't done a film in 5 years but they have two coming up in the next year or so. The first one is Arthur Christmas which is a CGI animated film but the one I'm really looking forward is The Pirates! which is done in claymation and looks brilliant. There are two trailers, one is the US/International trailer and the other is the UK trailer, I prefer the latter as it has a song!
UK Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWOFLtsDvbw&feature=channel_video_title
US Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=manIoYC9fTU
UK Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWOFLtsDvbw&feature=channel_video_title
US Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=manIoYC9fTU
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If you'd like to read my extended thoughts on the film, click here!
Favourite Line:
Pirate with Gout: 'I hear the people who live alone are serial killers!'
Scientist: 'Makes Electricity look like a pile of crap!'
The only downside to this was the woman with her kid sat in the cinema with me, she went to complain that the sound was too loud - the staff then turned down the size - so for the rest of the film I had to listen to her child wittering on all the way through it. That is why it should be loud so we don't have to listen to the kids who seem to be forced in the cinema (as they don't seem to want to watch the films)
There are some bits where you can tell it's Hugh Grant but he does such a good job and it's unusual that he's not above the title.
I loved The Albino Pirate, he had some of the best lines.
Well I must've seen a different film to everyone else.
Very few laughs, dull characters, lacking in atmosphere.
Couldn't wait for it to end.
You're not alone, I didn't like it, I'm a fan of all Aardman's other work though.
God, I love the internet. How else to come into contact with opinions like that?
The bits I saw (with young kids you can't really sit back and enjoy the film) I found quite funny, laughed out loud a few times. Thought Hugh Grant was great.
The characters were stronger, for me, than any of Aardman's other movies (Wallace and Gromit excepted - I had other issues with that film!), and like most great comedy, much of the humour is character-based. Honestly think this is their strongest film, I can't really explain some of the negative reaction. Critics loved it too.
Makes me kinda depressed about the implications for the state of the nation, frankly.
So, let me get this right - the fact that some people (me included) found Pirates slow and unfunny has implications for the state of the nation.
I presume this is slightly tongue-in-cheek.
No, I'm genuinely baffled. On Rotten Tomatoes it has a critical rating of 92% - into Pixar territory, but a user rating of 71%. I certainly don't always agree with the critics, but this seemed (ironically) like a no brianer - a cracking script (Gromit), great characters, tons of sight gags and puns. But clearly my kids and the critics are out of step... I don't see how it was slow, I don't see how it was unfunny. I was worried it might be a bit clever-clever, but it wasn't that either - it was smart, but never smug or requiring a ton of knowledge to get the gags. It was just Aardman at the top of their game - superior craftsmanship, writing, voice talents, filmmaking. The arc of the story was spot on. It was all spot on.
Why have much of the public fallen out of love with them? I'd be so depressed if I were Peter Lord and the other filmmakers. They did absolutely everything right in my book, and yet - seemingly - many people were just bored. Yup, I find that really depressing. This is so, so much better than the vast majority of CG animations (Pixar excepted) and yet people aren't interested. Genuinely sad.
Whereas Chicken Run is great imo.
I think that it should have been released on TV instead of the cinema. I would have broken it into six 15 minute episodes shown on consecutive nights.
I did not consider it to be slow...rather the opposite. There wasn't time to appreciate the skill of the animators. I so wanted to enjoy it but couldn't. Something was missing!