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
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