For Adults ALSO: 'The Pirates! Band of Misfits'.

Look out; there be clay in these waters!I know by myself that I could use a little clay-motion by the best studio there is for such niche, Aardman animations. It’s my second Aardman experience shortly after my first, ‘Artur Christmas’, which had commanded me to see everything they make after it. And then here be your film critic, enjoyed another animation fun, this time, with the “aaaarghhh-ing” motley crew of Pirates. It has been a time since I have seen it on theaters and it just now that I have had the words to put to a movie review.

With balanced amounts of shrewd wordplay and slapstick, ‘The Pirates! Band of Misfits’ is a comedic movie FOR ADULTS…ALSO. Yeah, that’s about that.

Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant), a frustrated captain of a ship, is on his 20^th annual attempt to be the “Pirate of the Year”. He had plans for this year, along with his half-brain crew and his special parrot. He falls short and finds himself out of luck again and then a lonely version of Charles Darwin (David Tennant) approaches him only to learn that his friendly pet bird is in fact a rare kind of Dodo bird, and in fact might be the last one in the world. 

POP! TING!! Idea bulbs seem to flicker on Pirate Captain and Charles Darwin overhead. Pirate Captain’s parrot may be the only card well-worth to play to earn himself the “Pirate of the Year” award. This is to fund his candidacy because he himself has proved that plague ships and ghost ships doesn’t hold much gold. Pirate Captain and Charles Darwin for his own reasons, desperately seeks for things and they are all up to almost anything. Even visiting a wicked pirate-hater queen from London (Imelda Staunton) is topping the list.

The significant improvement with the film’s animation is almost revolutionary. As might be identical with the better blend of slapstick and dialogue-comedy that is featured in the film, the stop-motion animation stirred with digital animation is apparently a tasty blend too. It is motioning to a radical change. There are backdrops which are digitally injected and CGI elements; there are helicopter and crane shots which are certainly stunning. Perhaps, if ‘Pirates!’ could have things to brag, this one will top the list of their wide selection.

Main problem, though, is the paperweight plot. It bothers me to know such information however it is still enough to lay down confrontations and conflicts enough to be as inviting to the audiences.

Hugh Grant’s vocal performance is unrecognizable to the extent that I have completely mistaken him of a different voice actor. Doctor Who star David Tennant plays his role good as Charles Darwin; and Imelda Staunton is once again a villain. I HATE PIRATES! The evil queen would yell, I know by myself that I now love Pirates, especially after seeing this.

Visually stark and efficiently hilarious, ‘The Pirates! Band of Misfits’ is officially the best movie in the pirate genre. And that’s to you Jack Sparrow!!