The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! not quite close enough. I was all fired up for doing more. It was such fun to do! We actually have a poster for "The Pirates! In an Adventure with Cowboys!". That would have been just great." 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
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl that [Depp's] performance is original in its every atom. There has never been a pirate, or for that matter a human being, like this in any other movie... his behavior shows a lifetime of rehearsal." However, he felt the film went for too long, a criticism shared by Kenneth Turan's negative review, feeling it "spends far too much time on its huge supporting cast of pirates (nowhere near as entertaining as everyone assumes) and on bloated adventure set pieces," despite having also enjoyed Depp's performance. For his performance as Captain Jack Sparrow, Johnny Depp won several awards, including Outstanding Performance