This review is from: The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists [DVD] [2012] (DVD)
I have seen this film 4 times at the cinema now. As an Aardman fan I desperately wanted to like it and wasn’t quite sure how good it was the first time I saw it, but it is so packed with detail, ideas and striking images that I believe it repays repeated viewing. Obviously there is a problematic aspect to this though, which is that most cinema-goers will only go and see it once.
Perhaps for some people the film is not what they were expecting from a pirate adventure – these pirates are not exactly the swashbuckling, ruthless outlaws of popular fiction, although anyone who has read Gideon Defoe’s books on which the film is based will have more idea what to expect. Also, as with “Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit”, the emotional core of the film is not so much in the plot, but rather in the relationships between the different characters.
Underlying the action of the film are moral messages, only subtly expressed – the middle of the film turns around “the danger of people only liking you because you’re famous” (as Gideon Defoe puts it in his children’s book version of the film). Ultimately, though, the mood of the film is more positive than this, the characters’ actions and their consequences elevating romantic love above the love of money, and placing the value of true friendship above both of these. And I think that’s beautiful.
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This review is from: The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists [DVD] [2012] (DVD)
I thoroughly enjoyed this film and will get the DVD or Bluray as soon as it is available. I can understand that some did not like it, and apparently some found it “boring”. I can only assume that the Aardman style humour went over their heads some of the time. There were a few places where everyone around me at the cinema was silent while I found myself laughing at one joke after another. Many are subtle, some just visual, and there are some musical. It’s a very good movie in my opinion. One could watch it several times and not find everything that the creators have put in there to entertain us.
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This review is from: The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists [DVD] [2012] (DVD)
My 4 year old son and I saw this film, and the both of us were completely entranced thoughout. The animation is fantastic, the story is brilliant, but not too complicated for children to enjoy. I was not a Hugh Grant fan, until now – his performance was glorious. As an adult you will spend 50% of your time working out who provided the voices and the other 50% trying to read the poster/graffiti on the walls of the background – its worth watching it twice just to do justice to both tasks.
An essential purchase for Shaun the Sheep fans wether they be adult or child!
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“Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also”,
I have seen this film 4 times at the cinema now. As an Aardman fan I desperately wanted to like it and wasn’t quite sure how good it was the first time I saw it, but it is so packed with detail, ideas and striking images that I believe it repays repeated viewing. Obviously there is a problematic aspect to this though, which is that most cinema-goers will only go and see it once.
Perhaps for some people the film is not what they were expecting from a pirate adventure – these pirates are not exactly the swashbuckling, ruthless outlaws of popular fiction, although anyone who has read Gideon Defoe’s books on which the film is based will have more idea what to expect. Also, as with “Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit”, the emotional core of the film is not so much in the plot, but rather in the relationships between the different characters.
Underlying the action of the film are moral messages, only subtly expressed – the middle of the film turns around “the danger of people only liking you because you’re famous” (as Gideon Defoe puts it in his children’s book version of the film). Ultimately, though, the mood of the film is more positive than this, the characters’ actions and their consequences elevating romantic love above the love of money, and placing the value of true friendship above both of these. And I think that’s beautiful.
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|Loved it (but too subtle for some),
I thoroughly enjoyed this film and will get the DVD or Bluray as soon as it is available. I can understand that some did not like it, and apparently some found it “boring”. I can only assume that the Aardman style humour went over their heads some of the time. There were a few places where everyone around me at the cinema was silent while I found myself laughing at one joke after another. Many are subtle, some just visual, and there are some musical. It’s a very good movie in my opinion. One could watch it several times and not find everything that the creators have put in there to entertain us.
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|Fantastic fun,
My 4 year old son and I saw this film, and the both of us were completely entranced thoughout. The animation is fantastic, the story is brilliant, but not too complicated for children to enjoy. I was not a Hugh Grant fan, until now – his performance was glorious. As an adult you will spend 50% of your time working out who provided the voices and the other 50% trying to read the poster/graffiti on the walls of the background – its worth watching it twice just to do justice to both tasks.
An essential purchase for Shaun the Sheep fans wether they be adult or child!
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