The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! 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. It follows The Pirate Captain and his crew of amateur pirates in their attempt to win the Pirate of the Year competition. "The Pirates!" is the fifth feature film by Aardman Animations, and its first stop-motion animated feature since "" in 2005, and Aardman's first stop-motion clay animated film released in 3D and shot in 2.35:1 widescreen. The film received positive reviews, while it was a modest box office
The Pirates of Penzance (film) its run, the film grossed $694,497. The film was a box office bomb. Despite its commercial failure, the film received generally positive reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes reports an 81% score based on 16 reviews, with an average rating of 7.1/10. The film was released on VHS in 1984 and on DVD in 2010. The Pirates of Penzance (film) The Pirates of Penzance is a 1983 British-American romantic musical comedy film written and directed by Wilford Leach based on Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera of the same name. The film, starring Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, Linda Ronstadt, George Rose, and