The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! 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 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. "The Pirates!" features the voices of Hugh Grant, Martin Freeman, Imelda Staunton, David Tennant,
Quite an Adventure his Savoy operas with curtain raisers such as "Quite an Adventure". W. J. MacQueen-Pope commented, concerning such curtain raisers: "Quite an Adventure" was first produced on tour in the English provinces by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company as a curtain raiser for "H.M.S. Pinafore". The London premiere was at the Olympic Theatre on 7 September 1881, under the management of Michael Gunn, as a companion piece for Solomon's operetta "Claude Duval." It ran until the end of October 1881. D'Oyly Carte again toured the piece in tandem with "Patience" in 1881, and with "Pinafore" and "The Pirates of Penzance" in