Taglines: Let’s go plundering.
After years of humiliation and failed attempts to win the coveted Pirate of the Year Award, Pirate Captain and his oddball crew take on the cream of the pirating crop – Black Bellamy, Peg Leg Hastings and Cutlass Liz – in a race to pillage the most booty. They soon cross paths with lovelorn scientist Charles Darwin, who persuades the Captain that the crew’s prized ‘parrot’, Polly, could be the answer to untold riches’ they are searching for.
Their adventure takes them to Victorian London where they meet Darwin’s sidekick ‘man-panzee’ Mister Bobo, and the notorious pirate-hating Queen Victoria herself. It soon unfolds that Darwin’s motives for helping the crew are not what they seem, and the Queen has an evil hidden agenda of her own. The Pirate Captain must choose between basking in the glory of being crowned Pirate of the Year, or staying faithful to his trusted crew.
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (released in North America, Australia and New Zealand as The Pirates! Band of Misfits) is a 2012 British-American[5] 3D stop-motion animated swashbuckler comedy film produced by Aardman Animations and Sony Pictures Animation as their second and final collaborative project. It was directed by Peter Lord.
The film was distributed by Columbia Pictures and was released on 28 March 2012 in the United Kingdom, and on 27 April 2012 in the United States.[7] The Pirates! features the voices of Hugh Grant, Martin Freeman, Imelda Staunton, David Tennant, Jeremy Piven, Salma Hayek, Lenny Henry and Brian Blessed.
The film is loosely based on The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, the first book from Gideon Defoe’s The Pirates! series.[8] It follows The Pirate Captain and his crew of amateur pirates in their attempt to win the Pirate of the Year competition.
The Pirates: Band of Misfits (2012)
Directed by: Peter Lord, Jeff Newitt
Starring: Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek, Jeremy Piven, Martin Freeman, Imelda Staunton, David Tennant, Lenny Henry, Brian Blessed, Russell Tovey, Brendan Gleeson, Ashley Jensen, Ben Whitehead
Screenplay by: Gideon Defoe
Production Design by: Norman Garwood
Cinematography by: Frank Passingham
Film Editing by: Justin Krish
Art Direction by: Sarah Hauldren, Phil Lewis, Matt Perry, Matt Sanders
Music by: Theodore Shapiro
MPAA Rating: PG for mild action, rude humor and some language.
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: August 4, 2012
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