The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists! - A Review

5 Stars - Hilarious Fun

Aardman making a film about pirates with a who's who of British character actors? Sold

The Pirates is an example of a great family film, with Aardman once again showing how not to talk down to children and put in plenty of jokes that only the parents will get, though keeping enough good slapstick to entertain the really little kids.

This film is wonderfully animated, though not in the traditional Aardman style it is done in a way that is more efficient and looks just as good, if not better, than the style used in Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run; and this animation is probably the best looking they've done to date.

The cast is fantastic, Hugh Grant makes the central character, The Pirate Captain, very likeable and even quite relateable in the sad bits. on top of that the film has Martin Freeman, Imelda Staunton, Russel Tovey, Brendan Gleeson, David Tennant, Brian Blessed and more; all of them being very funny.

A very jolly crew

In short the best family film so far this year. Go see it.