once i overlook the slow move action ( at time ) and hokey plot and dialogue and i find this movie really entertain in a circus and carnival ( freaky pirate and treasure and monkey and violence and wild color in a rough landscape with spaghetti western flashback ) sort of way . seem to really push the envelope for that time period in term of gay and trans gender undertone what with the pirate captain attachment to his butler and to his androgynous second in command ( the character who parade around in a dress and feather and appear much more interested in will than in arabella ) . i do not even sense that the pirate captain be attract to arabella in a sexual way . anyway and that make the movie all the more interesting and unique although likely far remove from what jules verne envision .