Warning: major spoilers for the Bodies finale.
“I hope they feel like they’re coming down from a trip or out of a trance,” said Bodies showrunner Paul Tomalin when asked what he hoped viewers would take away after watching his adaptation of Si Spencer’s graphic novel of the same name. Job done. Eight-episode mystery Bodies tells an extremely ambitious story, and deserves to be filed alongside 1899, The Oa and Sense8 in Netflix’s trip/trance sci-fi category.
Fans of that category will know that it’s a perilous place to be when it comes to recommissioning. All of the shows above were cut short after failing to break through to a wide-enough audience – perhaps as a result of their complicated philosophical and sci-fi ideas, or perhaps for not managing to prove quite as much fun as their high concept ideas promised.
Luckily for viewers, Bodies’ characters and plots...
“I hope they feel like they’re coming down from a trip or out of a trance,” said Bodies showrunner Paul Tomalin when asked what he hoped viewers would take away after watching his adaptation of Si Spencer’s graphic novel of the same name. Job done. Eight-episode mystery Bodies tells an extremely ambitious story, and deserves to be filed alongside 1899, The Oa and Sense8 in Netflix’s trip/trance sci-fi category.
Fans of that category will know that it’s a perilous place to be when it comes to recommissioning. All of the shows above were cut short after failing to break through to a wide-enough audience – perhaps as a result of their complicated philosophical and sci-fi ideas, or perhaps for not managing to prove quite as much fun as their high concept ideas promised.
Luckily for viewers, Bodies’ characters and plots...
- 10/20/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Sean Wilson Sep 16, 2016
With Kubo & The Two Strings now playing, we salute some of our favourite stop motion animated movies...
With Laika's visually sumptuous and breathtaking stop motion masterpiece Kubo And The Two Strings dazzling audiences throughout the country, what better time to celebrate this singular and remarkable art form?
The effect is created when an on-screen character or object is carefully manipulated one frame at a time, leading to an illusion of movement during playback - and such fiendishly intricate work, which takes years of dedication, deserves to be honoured. Here are the greatest examples of stop motion movie mastery.
The Humpty Dumpty Circus (1898)
What defines the elusive appeal of stop motion? Surely a great deal of it is down to the blend of the recognisable and the uncanny: an simulation of recognisably human movement that still has a touch of the fantastical about it. These contradictions were put...
With Kubo & The Two Strings now playing, we salute some of our favourite stop motion animated movies...
With Laika's visually sumptuous and breathtaking stop motion masterpiece Kubo And The Two Strings dazzling audiences throughout the country, what better time to celebrate this singular and remarkable art form?
The effect is created when an on-screen character or object is carefully manipulated one frame at a time, leading to an illusion of movement during playback - and such fiendishly intricate work, which takes years of dedication, deserves to be honoured. Here are the greatest examples of stop motion movie mastery.
The Humpty Dumpty Circus (1898)
What defines the elusive appeal of stop motion? Surely a great deal of it is down to the blend of the recognisable and the uncanny: an simulation of recognisably human movement that still has a touch of the fantastical about it. These contradictions were put...
- 9/8/2016
- Den of Geek
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From Flushed Away and Hunchback to Titan A.E. and Sky High - the family movies that don't get the love they deserve...
When I sit through a film such as Zootropolis, Rango, Frozen, Wreck-It Ralph, Eddie The Eagle or Coraline, I can’t help but be thankful somebody has bothered. As a parent as well as a movie lover, I’ve grown to really dislike family movies that just turn up to act as a surrogate babysitter for 90 minutes, with no intention of becoming anybody’s favourite film. The films I'm going to talk about are the family movies therefore that I think both try and do something a bit more, yet continue to fly under many people's radar.
A bonus mention before we get going, and number 26 in the list, much to my surprise: Alvin & The Chipmunks 4. I was expecting next to zero from it, courtesy...
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From Flushed Away and Hunchback to Titan A.E. and Sky High - the family movies that don't get the love they deserve...
When I sit through a film such as Zootropolis, Rango, Frozen, Wreck-It Ralph, Eddie The Eagle or Coraline, I can’t help but be thankful somebody has bothered. As a parent as well as a movie lover, I’ve grown to really dislike family movies that just turn up to act as a surrogate babysitter for 90 minutes, with no intention of becoming anybody’s favourite film. The films I'm going to talk about are the family movies therefore that I think both try and do something a bit more, yet continue to fly under many people's radar.
A bonus mention before we get going, and number 26 in the list, much to my surprise: Alvin & The Chipmunks 4. I was expecting next to zero from it, courtesy...
- 5/26/2016
- Den of Geek
Aardman co-founder Peter Lord talks Shaun The Sheep, making family movies, and wearing the same shirt for a long time...
He might have had a small cold when he spoke to us, and he might have been reaching for a box of Lemsip, but Aardman co-founder Peter Lord was on fine form when we got to chat to him last week. He was chatting about Aardman's latest feature, the lovely Shaun The Sheep: The Movie. But we talked about a lot more than that...
My favourite Tweet on your Twitter feed of late. Can we start there? Someone sent you a picture from China. And it showed the lift in her apartment complex, that had Shaun The Sheep imagery on the hotel's posters. I think many of us in the UK aren't aware of just how huge Shaun The Sheep has become outside of the UK, and how he's...
He might have had a small cold when he spoke to us, and he might have been reaching for a box of Lemsip, but Aardman co-founder Peter Lord was on fine form when we got to chat to him last week. He was chatting about Aardman's latest feature, the lovely Shaun The Sheep: The Movie. But we talked about a lot more than that...
My favourite Tweet on your Twitter feed of late. Can we start there? Someone sent you a picture from China. And it showed the lift in her apartment complex, that had Shaun The Sheep imagery on the hotel's posters. I think many of us in the UK aren't aware of just how huge Shaun The Sheep has become outside of the UK, and how he's...
- 2/6/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
I really don't put much stock in the International Animated Film Society's 2013 Annie Awards, which is why I didn't rush to report on their results on Saturday. One year Disney and Pixar boycott the event, feeling there was an unfair advantage paid to larger contributing sponsors, DreamWorks being the primary example. So with such a nasty stench over the event what good does it do to pay it much mind? That said, I'll be brief in mentioning Wreck-It Ralph topped Saturday night's winners with five awards, including Best Animated Picture. The awards have something like a 75% streak when it comes to helping predict the eventual Oscar winner for Best Animated Feature and as the days have gone on, it's looking more and more like Ralph will be this year's winner (see my predictions here). Pixar's Brave, Laika's ParaNorman and DreamWorks' Rise of the Guardians each took home two awards in lesser,...
- 2/4/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Disney's "Wreck-It-Ralph" was the big winner at the 40th Annie Awards held Saturday taking home the Best Animated Feature award. It is now officially the Oscar frontrunner in the Best Animated Film category.
Here's the complete list of winners/nominees; for winners/nominees of other award-giving bodies this season, click here:
Animated Feature
"Brave" . Pixar Animation Studios
"Frankenweenie" . Walt Disney Studios
"Hotel Transylvania" . Sony Pictures Animation
"ParaNorman" . Focus Features
"Rise of the Guardians" . DreamWorks Animation
"The Pirates! Band of Misfits" . Aardman Animations
"The Rabbi.s Cat ". Gkids
Winner "Wreck-It Ralph" . Walt Disney Animation Studios
Animated Special Production
"Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1" . Warner Bros. Animation
"Before Orel" . Trust . Starburns Industries, Inc.
Winner "Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem" . Illumination Entertainment
"Disney Tron: Uprising . Beck.s Beginning" . Disney TV Animation
"Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury" . DreamWorks Animation
"Justice League: Doom" . Warner Bros. Animation
Animated Short Subject
"Brad and Gary" . Illumination...
Here's the complete list of winners/nominees; for winners/nominees of other award-giving bodies this season, click here:
Animated Feature
"Brave" . Pixar Animation Studios
"Frankenweenie" . Walt Disney Studios
"Hotel Transylvania" . Sony Pictures Animation
"ParaNorman" . Focus Features
"Rise of the Guardians" . DreamWorks Animation
"The Pirates! Band of Misfits" . Aardman Animations
"The Rabbi.s Cat ". Gkids
Winner "Wreck-It Ralph" . Walt Disney Animation Studios
Animated Special Production
"Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1" . Warner Bros. Animation
"Before Orel" . Trust . Starburns Industries, Inc.
Winner "Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem" . Illumination Entertainment
"Disney Tron: Uprising . Beck.s Beginning" . Disney TV Animation
"Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury" . DreamWorks Animation
"Justice League: Doom" . Warner Bros. Animation
Animated Short Subject
"Brad and Gary" . Illumination...
- 2/3/2013
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Avast ye, as the crew behind Wallace & Gromit set a course for skulduggery and animated anarchy with author Gideon Defoe’s underachieving Pirate Captain (here voiced by Hugh Grant). Determined - if unlikely - to win the coveted Pirate of the Year award, the hapless buccaneer's fortunes change when he runs into the young Charles Darwin (David Tennant). But while Lady Luck may be with him, pirate-hating Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton) most certainly is not.
- 1/30/2013
- Sky Movies
I love the art of animation, and it's amazing to see how far things have come and advanced over the years. The industry is changing in terms of technology, but what it all really comes down to is telling good stories. There's been a lot of great animated movies this year, and many of them are up for several awards at the 40th Annual Annie Awards.
Some of the movies nomainated include Brave, Frankenweenie, Hotel Transylvania, ParaNorman, Rise of the Guardians, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, and Wreck-It Ralph. Out of those films my favorite is a toss up between Wreck-It Ralph and ParaNorman, those were two pretty incredible films. I think ParaNorman has the edge though.
Some of the other animated properties nominated are Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1, Disney Tron: Uprising, Justice League: Doom, Robot Chicken ‘DC Comics Special', South Park ‘Raising the Bar’, and several others.
Some of the movies nomainated include Brave, Frankenweenie, Hotel Transylvania, ParaNorman, Rise of the Guardians, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, and Wreck-It Ralph. Out of those films my favorite is a toss up between Wreck-It Ralph and ParaNorman, those were two pretty incredible films. I think ParaNorman has the edge though.
Some of the other animated properties nominated are Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1, Disney Tron: Uprising, Justice League: Doom, Robot Chicken ‘DC Comics Special', South Park ‘Raising the Bar’, and several others.
- 12/4/2012
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
The International Animated Film Society (Asifa-Hollywood) has announced the nominees for the 40th Annie Awards also known as Animation's Highest Honor. Disney/Pixar led the nominees with "Brave," "Frankenweenie," and "Wreck-It-Ralph" getting Best Picture nods. The 40th Annual Annie Awards will take place on February 2, 2013 at UCLA.s Royce Hall, in Los Angeles, California.
And the nominees for the 40th Annual Annie Awards are:
Best Picture nominees:
Brave - Disney/Pixar)
Frankenweenie -The Walt Disney Studios
Hotel Transylvania - Sony Pictures Animation
ParaNorman - Focus Features
Rise of the Guardians - DreamWorks Animation
The Pirates! Band of Misfits - Aardman Animations
The Rabbi.s Cat - Gkids
Wreck-It Ralph - Walt Disney Animation Studios
Annie Award for Best Animated Special Production
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 . Warner Bros. Animation
Best General Audience Animated Television Production
Archer .Space Race, Part 1. . Weissman Markovitz Communications for FX
Bob.S Burgers .Earsy Rider...
And the nominees for the 40th Annual Annie Awards are:
Best Picture nominees:
Brave - Disney/Pixar)
Frankenweenie -The Walt Disney Studios
Hotel Transylvania - Sony Pictures Animation
ParaNorman - Focus Features
Rise of the Guardians - DreamWorks Animation
The Pirates! Band of Misfits - Aardman Animations
The Rabbi.s Cat - Gkids
Wreck-It Ralph - Walt Disney Animation Studios
Annie Award for Best Animated Special Production
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 . Warner Bros. Animation
Best General Audience Animated Television Production
Archer .Space Race, Part 1. . Weissman Markovitz Communications for FX
Bob.S Burgers .Earsy Rider...
- 12/3/2012
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Which of 2012′s animated films drew the most applause? According to the International Animated Film Society, Asifa-Hollywood, the options include Pixar’s Brave, Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph, and DreamWorks’s Rise of the Guardians. All three — among others — were nominated for animation’s highest honor today when the group named the contenders for its 40th annual Annie Awards. The prizes will be distributed Saturday, Feb. 2 in Los Angeles.
See who else made the cartoon cut with this list of nominees for the Annie Awards’ biggest honors. A full list of nominees can be found at the awards’ website.
Best Animated...
See who else made the cartoon cut with this list of nominees for the Annie Awards’ biggest honors. A full list of nominees can be found at the awards’ website.
Best Animated...
- 12/3/2012
- by Hillary Busis
- EW - Inside Movies
Disney withdrew from the International Animated Film Society, Asifa-Hollywood back in 2010 and even before then it was hard to put much stock in the Annie Awards. Now it's just sort of a blip on the overall award season radar that manages headlines twice a year, once for their nominees and again for their winners, which this year will be announced on Saturday, February 2, 2013. That said, the org announced their 2013 nominees this morning and their Best Feature Film list was made up of eight nominees (a large list considering the lack of quality animated films I've seen this year) including Brave, Frankenweenie, Hotel Transylvania, ParaNorman, Rise of the Guardians, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, The Rabbi's Cat and Wreck-It Ralph. It is nice not to see something like The Lorax among that list, but I still think this was a year in which the field could have easily been limited to five nominees.
- 12/3/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists
Stars (the voices of): Hugh Grant, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton, Ashley Jensen, Salma Hayek, Jeremy Piven, Martin Freeman, Lenny Henry, Brendan Gleeson and Brian Blessed | Written by Gideon Defoe | Directed by Peter Lord, Jeff Newitt
There are a few things in cinema that can be described as a safe bet. One is a Chris Nolan film is probably going to be pretty good. Another is Jeff Bridges being extremely watchable in anything he’s in. You can also add an Aardman production almost always being a good thing to that list.
The folks who brought you Wallace and Gromit andChicken Run have opened their plasticine kit once more to bring us a nautical but nice pirate adventure, with added scientists. Hugh Grant voices the logically named Pirate Captain, whose sole ambition is to at last win the coveted Pirate of the Year Award.
Stars (the voices of): Hugh Grant, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton, Ashley Jensen, Salma Hayek, Jeremy Piven, Martin Freeman, Lenny Henry, Brendan Gleeson and Brian Blessed | Written by Gideon Defoe | Directed by Peter Lord, Jeff Newitt
There are a few things in cinema that can be described as a safe bet. One is a Chris Nolan film is probably going to be pretty good. Another is Jeff Bridges being extremely watchable in anything he’s in. You can also add an Aardman production almost always being a good thing to that list.
The folks who brought you Wallace and Gromit andChicken Run have opened their plasticine kit once more to bring us a nautical but nice pirate adventure, with added scientists. Hugh Grant voices the logically named Pirate Captain, whose sole ambition is to at last win the coveted Pirate of the Year Award.
- 9/7/2012
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
Chicago – Aardman’s Animation “The Pirates! A Band of Misfits” is a wonderfully clever slice of family entertainment that’s probably second to only “ParaNorman” when it comes to the best animated cinema of 2012. Sony has treated the film and its fans very well with an extras-packed special edition of the Peter Lord film that comes with a spectacular short film, 3D version, UltraViolet edition, and more. It’s one of the best family Blu-rays on New Releases shelves right now.
The logical place to start with “The Pirates!” is with the smart, clever movie itself. Check out my theatrical review for my thoughts on the movie but know that it plays even better the second time than it does the first. Like so much great animation, there are jokes and references that you don’t even catch the first time. It’s such a creative piece, never once feeling...
The logical place to start with “The Pirates!” is with the smart, clever movie itself. Check out my theatrical review for my thoughts on the movie but know that it plays even better the second time than it does the first. Like so much great animation, there are jokes and references that you don’t even catch the first time. It’s such a creative piece, never once feeling...
- 9/6/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
This week: Will "Battleship" sink or swim on DVD and Blu-ray? The mega-budget summer flop about a naval fleet fighting off alien invaders had a reported budget of about $209 million but had to rely on the foreign box office to keep it afloat.
Also new this week is the romantic drama "The Lucky One" and the stop-motion animated adventure "The Pirates! Band of Misfits."
'Battleship'
Box Office: $65 million
Rotten Tomatoes: 34% Rotten
Storyline: Peter Berg directs this epic blockbuster wannabe inspired by the Hasbro board game. Taylor Kitsch, Rihanna, Alexander Skarsgard, Brooklyn Decker, Liam Neeson and many more take on a hostile extraterrestrial spacecraft armada over Hawaii and try to thwart the aliens' destructive plans before all hope is lost.
Extras! Exclusive to the Blu-ray version is a guided tour of the "USS Missouri" — also known as "The Mighty Mo" — with Berg, senior tour guide Reginald H. Johnson and Michael Carr,...
Also new this week is the romantic drama "The Lucky One" and the stop-motion animated adventure "The Pirates! Band of Misfits."
'Battleship'
Box Office: $65 million
Rotten Tomatoes: 34% Rotten
Storyline: Peter Berg directs this epic blockbuster wannabe inspired by the Hasbro board game. Taylor Kitsch, Rihanna, Alexander Skarsgard, Brooklyn Decker, Liam Neeson and many more take on a hostile extraterrestrial spacecraft armada over Hawaii and try to thwart the aliens' destructive plans before all hope is lost.
Extras! Exclusive to the Blu-ray version is a guided tour of the "USS Missouri" — also known as "The Mighty Mo" — with Berg, senior tour guide Reginald H. Johnson and Michael Carr,...
- 8/27/2012
- by Robert DeSalvo
- NextMovie
Title: “The Pirates! Band of Misfits” Directors: Peter Lord, Jeff Newitt Cast: Hugh Grant, Martin Freeman, Imelda Staunton, David Tennant, Anton Yelchin (U.S. version), Selma Hayek, Jeremy Piven “The Pirates! Band of Misfits,” based on the book “The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists” by Gideon Defoe, follows, well, a band of misfit pirates as their leader, the Pirate Captain (Grant) vows to win the Pirate of the Year Award while outwitting the pirate-hating Queen of England, Queen Victoria. Overall, this Aardman Animations/Sony Pictures Animation film is a very harmless film (which is ironic to say since it made Lepra Health in Action angry with its “leper boat” joke); it’s [ Read More ]...
- 4/29/2012
- by monique
- ShockYa
Happy Friday! It’s the last minute run-up to summer blockbuster season, and since no one wants to even contemplate challenging “The Avengers” next week, a swell of smaller, independent, and foreign pictures are hitting theaters this weekend. And with the Tribeca and San Francisco International Film Festivals in full swing, we’re happy to go along. Despite the blockbuster-less slate, there’s still plenty of mystery, horror, and gun-filled action to (temporarily) sate any action lovers’ palate. Plus a romantic comedy and a maybe-for-children-maybe-for-adults animated feature. Enjoy!
Edgar Allen Poe’s tales of horror and woe are put into practice in this week’s “The Raven” from James McTeigue. The part-biography/part-thriller stars John Cusack as Poe, who, after cleared of initial suspicions, is tasked with solving a series of murders fashioned after gruesome deaths from his own stories. Like “E.T.” and Elliott, the life of the film seems...
Edgar Allen Poe’s tales of horror and woe are put into practice in this week’s “The Raven” from James McTeigue. The part-biography/part-thriller stars John Cusack as Poe, who, after cleared of initial suspicions, is tasked with solving a series of murders fashioned after gruesome deaths from his own stories. Like “E.T.” and Elliott, the life of the film seems...
- 4/27/2012
- by Emma Bernstein
- The Playlist
In sheer charm and wit, an animated film can leave your spirits elevated and revelling in the splendid detail on display. Aardman Animations definitely marches to the beat of their own drum and with so many films are bursting with CG animation, they still specialize in stop-motion films with their own brand of humor. The Pirates! Band of Misfits is their latest gem and they stick with a tone and act like nothing could be better throughout. Sight gags, witty remarks, and moments that make you want to watch it again and again. These are signs of films that are endlessly watchable because so much is going on, and despite the limited scale and scope possible in stop-motion, Pirates never seems to run into the imaginary borders it plays within.
Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) wants nothing more than to win the “Pirate of the Year” award. Unfortunately, he faces stiff...
Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) wants nothing more than to win the “Pirate of the Year” award. Unfortunately, he faces stiff...
- 4/27/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
I first fell in love with Aardman Animations when Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit arrived in 2005. Since then they’ve had some ups and downs but their latest is a gem. Co-founder Peter Lord is back in the director’s chair for The Pirates! Band of Misfits, which also marks their first foray into 3D. While that technology is still lacking effectiveness since the post-Avatar market, the film is still a delight. Last month I had the great pleasure of sitting down with Peter Lord for a roundtable interview. We touched on how he got a song from Flight of the Conchords into the film, using CG to populate the crowds, casting Hugh Grant as Pirate Captain, and much more.
The Film Stage: The first thing that jumps out at you about the movie is that it is such a complicated claymation thing. There is CGI elements and...
The Film Stage: The first thing that jumps out at you about the movie is that it is such a complicated claymation thing. There is CGI elements and...
- 4/27/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Set sail for adventure on the high seas with the merriest band of buccaneers and scallywags this side of the ocean blue with Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt‘s rollicking and very fun family film, The Pirates! Band of Misfits. Arghs ahoy! Based on Gideon Defoe‘s comedic novels, the Aardman Animations film follows the Pirate Captain (voiced by Hugh Grant) and his merry band of hearties as they attempt to win the coveted Pirate of the Year Award, all while mixing it up with world-famous scientists, the Queen herself, sworn pirate enemies, and even a trained monkey. Frequently funny and layered with humor to suit all ages, including a gaggle of solid sight gags and verbal jokes aplenty, the film is another feather in Aardman’s (large, triangle-shaped pirate) cap. All that good humor aside, the film occasionally suffers from some missteps translating two of Defoe’s written works into one film, but...
- 4/27/2012
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Pirates! Band Of Misfits is the latest stop-motion feature from Aardman Animations, the studio behind the likes of the Wallace and Gromit shorts, Chicken Run, and Arthur’S Christmas. It is based on the first two novels in the Pirates! series by author Gideon Defoe. Pirates! Band Of Misfits is inventive and wonderfully animated; a very enjoyable and often hilarious family adventure with a terrific script, a spot-on voice cast and just enough sophistication to appeal to both adults and children.
Try as he might, the bearded scallywag known simply as Pirate Captain (voiced by Hugh Grant) just can’t get any respect as a bloodthirsty terror of the high seas. Misfortune and clumsiness seem to be his specialties and his attempts to plunder booty from other ships are a disaster (one’s a ghost ship, one’s a plague ship, one’s a nudist cruise, etc). His inept but...
Try as he might, the bearded scallywag known simply as Pirate Captain (voiced by Hugh Grant) just can’t get any respect as a bloodthirsty terror of the high seas. Misfortune and clumsiness seem to be his specialties and his attempts to plunder booty from other ships are a disaster (one’s a ghost ship, one’s a plague ship, one’s a nudist cruise, etc). His inept but...
- 4/27/2012
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
From the sophisticated merriment of “Wallace and Gromit” to the witty adventures of “Chicken Run” and “Arthur Christmas,” the British Aardman Studios remains one of the most effortlessly likable brands in animation today. And if their latest blend of dry humor and audacious action in “The Pirates! Band of Misfits” isn’t up to the level of their very best, it’s still a pleasurable diversion for all ages. Directed by Peter Lord (who co-founded Aardman with “Wallace and Gromit” creator Nick Park) and adapted by Gideon Defoe from his own “Pirates!” series of humor books, the film follows endearingly ineffectual Pirate Captain...
- 4/27/2012
- by Geoff Berkshire
- Hitfix
Peter Lord, co-founder of Aardman Animations, hasn't directed a feature film since he shared credit with Nick Park for Chicken Run a dozen years ago. Still, his influence can be felt throughout most everything the company has produced, as becomes evident when watching The Pirates! Band of Misfits, adapted by Gideon Defoe from his own book The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, published in 2004. (The film has already been released in other territories with the Scientists title.) Stop-motion animation remains the playground of determined individualists, artists who are intent on conveying the broad range of variations available within the limitations of the medium. And the storytelling style promulgated by Lord through Aardman continues to be distinct: extremely dry humor; characters who are...
- 4/26/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Chicago – “The Pirates! Band of Misfits” has that incredible Aardman energy and elegance of works like “Wallace & Gromit” and “Chicken Run” along with some of the best voice work you’ll hear in an animated film all year. It’s not a perfect piece of family entertainment (and Aardman has made a few of those in the past…like everything feature the cheese-lover and his skeptical dog) but it’s close enough and should satisfy all of those willing to sign up for this clever ride. It’s smart, funny, and, most importantly, entertaining for multiple generations.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
The gallant yet goofy lead of “The Pirates!” is wonderfully known only as The Pirate Captain (perfectly voiced by Hugh Grant) and he’s kind of a lovable loser. His men stay by his side out of loyalty, not out of any actual success at being a pirate. Pirate Captain has nowhere...
Rating: 4.0/5.0
The gallant yet goofy lead of “The Pirates!” is wonderfully known only as The Pirate Captain (perfectly voiced by Hugh Grant) and he’s kind of a lovable loser. His men stay by his side out of loyalty, not out of any actual success at being a pirate. Pirate Captain has nowhere...
- 4/26/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
New openers contend at the box office for top honors, with The Pirates! Band of Misfits 3D opening in the largest theatre count of 3,358, via Sony. The animated pic helmed by Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt, based on Gideon Defoe's "The Pirates! (in an Adventure with Scientists)," features the voice talents of mostly well-known actors like Hugh Grant, Brendan Gleeson, Jeremy Piven, Brian Blessed, Lenny Henry, Salma Hayek, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton, Martin Freeman, Russell Tovey and Ashley Jensen. The Five-Year Engagement finds 2,936 theaters, and should be able to topple current first-placed romantic dramedy Think Like a Man, with Judd Apatow producing. Others have the Sony film topping the charts for a second weekend in a row. Starring in the Nichoas Stoller directed film are co-writer Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Rhys Ifans, Chris Pratt, Alison Brie, Lauren Weedman, Mimi Kennedy and David Paymer.
- 4/26/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
New openers contend at the box office for top honors, with The Pirates! Band of Misfits 3D opening in the largest theatre count of 3,358, via Sony. The animated pic helmed by Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt, based on Gideon Defoe's "The Pirates! (in an Adventure with Scientists)," features the voice talents of mostly well-known actors like Hugh Grant, Brendan Gleeson, Jeremy Piven, Brian Blessed, Lenny Henry, Salma Hayek, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton, Martin Freeman, Russell Tovey and Ashley Jensen. The Five-Year Engagement finds 2,936 theaters, and should be able to topple current first-placed romantic dramedy Think Like a Man, with Judd Apatow producing. Others have the Sony film topping the charts for a second weekend in a row. Starring in the Nichoas Stoller directed film are co-writer Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Rhys Ifans, Chris Pratt, Alison Brie, Lauren Weedman, Mimi Kennedy and David Paymer.
- 4/26/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
In John Ortved's unauthorized oral history of "The Simpsons," he recounts how an edict was posted in the writers' room of the influential animated series. This had come down from on high, and was probably hard to follow for some of the zanier writers (Conan O'Brien, we're looking in your direction). The note said, simply: "One joke per joke." Clearly this is not something that the good folks at Aardman Animation, the Bristol, England-based animation studio behind "Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" and last year's "Arthur Christmas" follow, because their new film, "Pirates! Band of Misfits," crams in so many jokes – visual, verbal, and otherwise – that you sometimes feel like yelling at the projectionist: "Could you pause that? Or at least slow it down?"
Based on a series of children's books by Gideon Defoe (he also wrote the screenplay), the film concerns a band of wacky...
Based on a series of children's books by Gideon Defoe (he also wrote the screenplay), the film concerns a band of wacky...
- 4/26/2012
- by Drew Taylor
- The Playlist
This Friday, "Pirates! Band of Misfits" opens, the latest whirligig stop motion contraption by the cracked geniuses at Aardman Animation, the studio that, over the years, has brought us such astounding wonders as "Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit," "Chicken Run," "Arthur Christmas," and the underrated "Flushed Away." 'Pirates' is their second film in conjunction with Sony Pictures Animation, their new home after leaving a partnership with DreamWorks Animation ("The Croods," Chris Sanders' next movie for DreamWorks, was an idea originally developed by Aardman but retained by DreamWorks Animation after the split). We got a chance to talk with Peter Lord, director of "Pirates! Band of Misfits" and the co-founder of the studio (he's a kind of cuddly British John Lasseter proxy), about what drew him to this pirate world, what's next for stop motion animation, the split from DreamWorks, and his new Batman short films.
- 4/25/2012
- by Drew Taylor
- The Playlist
As the co-founder of Aardman Animations, the British studio known for their Oscar-winning stop-motion animation movies like Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and of course, Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" video, Peter Lord has been busy producing movies and TV series but hasn't directed a movie since 2000.
It was Gideon Defoe's book "The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists" that delighted him enough to take on the project himself and the result is a high seas adventure that finds the humour in piracy and plays with what we know about the cutlass-swinging, peg-legged characters who are notorious for their pillaging ways.
But not the Pirate Captain, a sweetly incapable doofus with a luxuriant beard, loyal crew and not much else, brought to life by Hugh Grant in his first voice actor role, and whose desperate need to win Pirate of the Year is at the centre of The Pirates!
It was Gideon Defoe's book "The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists" that delighted him enough to take on the project himself and the result is a high seas adventure that finds the humour in piracy and plays with what we know about the cutlass-swinging, peg-legged characters who are notorious for their pillaging ways.
But not the Pirate Captain, a sweetly incapable doofus with a luxuriant beard, loyal crew and not much else, brought to life by Hugh Grant in his first voice actor role, and whose desperate need to win Pirate of the Year is at the centre of The Pirates!
- 4/23/2012
- by Andrea Miller
- Cineplex
Watch new The Pirates! Band of Misfits clips, starring Hugh Grant, Brendan Gleeson and Jeremy Piven! 10 new videos are in from the Aardman and Sony Pictures Imageworks pic which opens April 27th, and looks hysterical. Also lending their voice talents to the Gideon Defoe-scripted animated adventure comedy helmed by Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt are Brian Blessed, Lenny Henry, Salma Hayek, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton, Martin Freeman, Russell Tovey and Ashley Jensen. In The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Hugh Grant stars in his first animated role as the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to...
- 4/19/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Watch new The Pirates! Band of Misfits clips, starring Hugh Grant, Brendan Gleeson and Jeremy Piven! 10 new videos are in from the Aardman and Sony Pictures Imageworks pic which opens April 27th, and looks hysterical. Also lending their voice talents to the Gideon Defoe-scripted animated adventure comedy helmed by Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt are Brian Blessed, Lenny Henry, Salma Hayek, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton, Martin Freeman, Russell Tovey and Ashley Jensen. In The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Hugh Grant stars in his first animated role as the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to...
- 4/19/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
London - If you're a movie fan, its to your advantage to live overseas this spring and summer. Not only are big summer blockbusters such as "The Avengers" and "Battleship" opening across the globe before landing in the states, but so is highly anticipated animated fare such as Aardman's "The Pirates! Band of Misfits." The legendary company's first stop-motion feature length film since "Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit", "Pirates" is also Aardman co-founder Peter Lord's first directorial effort since the worldwide smash "Chicken Run" in 2000. Based on Gideon Defoe's "The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists" (the...
- 4/9/2012
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
No comedy about pirates could be worse than Roman Polanski's Pirates, which got the 1986 Cannes festival off to a bad start, and none has yet been the equal of Robert Siodmak's The Crimson Pirate, the high-tidemark of the genre. Based on the first of a series of children's books by Gideon Defoe, this latest stop-action animated movie from the Aardman studio has a decent position between the two on the Plimsoll line. Hugh Grant provides a characteristically diffident voice for the hero, a cheerfully unsuccessful British buccaneer operating in the mid-19th-century Caribbean and urging his incompetent crew to support his bid to become Pirate of the Year. Seeking to destroy him is the young Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), a pirate-hater with considerable swashbuckling skills. Bent upon employing him for more peaceful adventures is a lovelorn Charles Darwin (David Tennant). The graphic work is charming, the voice casting excellent,...
- 4/2/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Raise your child's Iq by taking them to Aardman's effortlessly funny piratical caper
Here is another gem from Aardman Productions, adapted by Gideon Defoe from his children's book. It is effortlessly and unassumingly funny – and terrifically smart. Some people think you can improve children's minds by playing them Mozart. I think you could treble the Iq of any child, or indeed adult, by putting them in front of an Aardman product like this. Hugh Grant provides the voice for the Pirate Captain, a rather hopeless cutlass-wielder whose dearest wish is to win the Pirate of the Year award: Grant's self-deprecating self-doubt is a return to the glory days of Four Weddings. When his crew accidentally boards the Beagle and captures Charles Darwin, our hero is pitched into an adventure involving Queen Victoria herself. The film is bursting with fun and packed with gags, often of the incidental, visual kind. When the DVD comes out,...
Here is another gem from Aardman Productions, adapted by Gideon Defoe from his children's book. It is effortlessly and unassumingly funny – and terrifically smart. Some people think you can improve children's minds by playing them Mozart. I think you could treble the Iq of any child, or indeed adult, by putting them in front of an Aardman product like this. Hugh Grant provides the voice for the Pirate Captain, a rather hopeless cutlass-wielder whose dearest wish is to win the Pirate of the Year award: Grant's self-deprecating self-doubt is a return to the glory days of Four Weddings. When his crew accidentally boards the Beagle and captures Charles Darwin, our hero is pitched into an adventure involving Queen Victoria herself. The film is bursting with fun and packed with gags, often of the incidental, visual kind. When the DVD comes out,...
- 3/30/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
There wasn’t a whole lot on offer last week with Hunger Games unequivocally eclipsing all the other releases. It’s received fairly unanimously positive reviews and looks like being the first box-office smash of the summer. Meanwhile both The Kid With a Bike and Wild Bill have received their own fair share of plaudits and would appear to be well worth seeking out.
This time out though there’s a wide range of releases hitting the screens ranging from big-budget mythological blockbuster and animated piracy adventure to hard-hitting prison documentary and a ghastly looking vampire spoof.
If you want to check to see if any of these films are playing near you, you can visit Find Any Film and they’ll be able to help.
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The latest offering from Aardman Animation sees them...
This time out though there’s a wide range of releases hitting the screens ranging from big-budget mythological blockbuster and animated piracy adventure to hard-hitting prison documentary and a ghastly looking vampire spoof.
If you want to check to see if any of these films are playing near you, you can visit Find Any Film and they’ll be able to help.
The Pirates : In an Adventure with Scientists *Pick of the Week* Iframe Embed for Youtube
The latest offering from Aardman Animation sees them...
- 3/30/2012
- by Rob Keeling
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Written by Gideon Defoe
Directed by Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt
UK / USA, 2012
Chicken Run, Curse of the Were-rabbit, The Wrong Trousers; if any of these clay-animated films sound familiar, then Britain’s greatest cinematic exponent, Aardman Studios, will be no mystery. If those titles hold no meaning, please greet with open arms their latest film, an adaptation of the first Gideon Coe Pirate novels, The Pirates! In an Adventure With Scientists! or, as it is titled in North America, The Pirates! Band of Misfits!.
The plot can be described as nothing other than insane: the pirate crew, led by the charismatic Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) and completed by Pirate with Scarf (Martin Freeman), Albino Pirate (Russell Tovey) and Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate (Ashley Jensen), are a terrible crew, the laughing stock of the high seas and Blood Island. Forever the optimist, Pirate Captain believes that...
Written by Gideon Defoe
Directed by Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt
UK / USA, 2012
Chicken Run, Curse of the Were-rabbit, The Wrong Trousers; if any of these clay-animated films sound familiar, then Britain’s greatest cinematic exponent, Aardman Studios, will be no mystery. If those titles hold no meaning, please greet with open arms their latest film, an adaptation of the first Gideon Coe Pirate novels, The Pirates! In an Adventure With Scientists! or, as it is titled in North America, The Pirates! Band of Misfits!.
The plot can be described as nothing other than insane: the pirate crew, led by the charismatic Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) and completed by Pirate with Scarf (Martin Freeman), Albino Pirate (Russell Tovey) and Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate (Ashley Jensen), are a terrible crew, the laughing stock of the high seas and Blood Island. Forever the optimist, Pirate Captain believes that...
- 3/29/2012
- by Robert Simpson
- SoundOnSight
Will The Pirates! be the film that gives Aardman the big box office breakthrough in the Us that it richly deserves?
If you ever get an opportunity to talk to anyone in the American animation industry, they have a habit of speaking with utter reverence about Aardman. Go right to the head of Disney, for instance, and John Lasseter is an exponent of the Bristol-based animation studio’s work, having first crossed paths with the Aardman crew while he was first showcasing the earliest Pixar efforts, long before Toy Story. Go outside the States, and Hayao Miyazaki is a massive fan, too.
But then Aardman is a one-off. Appreciating that the broader company has many more tentacles that is often realised, it’s the glorious stop motion animated films (and Wallace & Gromit specials) that remain its chartermark. Quite frankly, nobody does them better, and a steadfast refusal to make a...
If you ever get an opportunity to talk to anyone in the American animation industry, they have a habit of speaking with utter reverence about Aardman. Go right to the head of Disney, for instance, and John Lasseter is an exponent of the Bristol-based animation studio’s work, having first crossed paths with the Aardman crew while he was first showcasing the earliest Pixar efforts, long before Toy Story. Go outside the States, and Hayao Miyazaki is a massive fan, too.
But then Aardman is a one-off. Appreciating that the broader company has many more tentacles that is often realised, it’s the glorious stop motion animated films (and Wallace & Gromit specials) that remain its chartermark. Quite frankly, nobody does them better, and a steadfast refusal to make a...
- 3/29/2012
- Den of Geek
[brightcove]1531728097001[/brightcove] The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists opens in cinemas this week, and you can watch an exclusive interview with stars Hugh Grant and David Tennant and director Peter Lord, right here. The seafaring tale is latest stop-motion adventure from Aardman, and it’s packed with the kind of lovingly crafted detail and typically British humour that has become the animation house’s calling card. Based on the novel by Gideon Defoe, the film follows the hapless Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) on his...
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- 3/28/2012
- by Matt Maytum
- TotalFilm
Check out these four new clips from The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (or The Pirates! Band of Misfits if you’re American), the latest stop-motion, 3D, animated film from Aardman Animations which features the voices of Hugh Grant, Martin Freeman, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton, Jeremy Piven, Salma Hayek, Brian Blessed, Brendan Gleeson and Ashley Jensen. Co-directed by Peter Lord (Chicken Run) and Jeff Newitt from a screenplay by Gideon Defoe, based upon his books. The Pirates! will be released in the UK on March 28th and the Us on April 27th 2012; and don’t forget to check out Jack’s The Pirates! review
Hugh Grant, starring in his first animated role, is the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to...
Hugh Grant, starring in his first animated role, is the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to...
- 3/23/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
★★★★☆ From Britain's Aardman Animations (the Oscar-winning team behind Wallace & Gromit and 2000 hit Chicken Run) comes The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (2012), a brand new claymation escapade based on the off-the-wall book series by Gideon Defoe. Featuring the voice talents of Hugh Grant, Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, David Tennant and Imelda Staunton, Aardman and director Peter Lord have once again put British animation on the map thanks to an hilarious script and painstaking eye for detail.
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- 3/23/2012
- by CineVue
- CineVue
The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists
Stars (the voices of): Hugh Grant, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton, Ashley Jensen, Salma Hayek, Jeremy Piven, Martin Freeman, Lenny Henry, Brendan Gleeson and Brian Blessed | Written by Gideon Defoe | Directed by Peter Lord, Jeff Newitt
There are a few things in cinema that can be described as a safe bet. One is a Chris Nolan film is probably going to be pretty good. Another is Jeff Bridges being extremely watchable in anything he’s in. You can also add an Aardman production almost always being a good thing to that list.
The folks who brought you Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run have opened their plasticine kit once more to bring us a nautical but nice pirate adventure, with added scientists. Hugh Grant voices the logically named Pirate Captain, whose sole ambition is to at last win the coveted Pirate of the Year Award.
Stars (the voices of): Hugh Grant, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton, Ashley Jensen, Salma Hayek, Jeremy Piven, Martin Freeman, Lenny Henry, Brendan Gleeson and Brian Blessed | Written by Gideon Defoe | Directed by Peter Lord, Jeff Newitt
There are a few things in cinema that can be described as a safe bet. One is a Chris Nolan film is probably going to be pretty good. Another is Jeff Bridges being extremely watchable in anything he’s in. You can also add an Aardman production almost always being a good thing to that list.
The folks who brought you Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run have opened their plasticine kit once more to bring us a nautical but nice pirate adventure, with added scientists. Hugh Grant voices the logically named Pirate Captain, whose sole ambition is to at last win the coveted Pirate of the Year Award.
- 3/22/2012
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
In his quest to become Pirate of the Year, the Pirate Captain leads his crew into peril and risks losing a treasured shipmate.
What's the best thing about watching pirates? Is it the cutlass duels? Is it the shanties? Is it the hammy performances? These particular pirates may not be the greatest at, well, pirating, but if you're ready to set sail for adventure, they're the crew to join.
Many a fan of Gideon Defoe's much loved (and some say satirical) pirate novels will have suppressed a shudder upon hearing that they were making their way to the screen. Shudder ye not, for...
What's the best thing about watching pirates? Is it the cutlass duels? Is it the shanties? Is it the hammy performances? These particular pirates may not be the greatest at, well, pirating, but if you're ready to set sail for adventure, they're the crew to join.
Many a fan of Gideon Defoe's much loved (and some say satirical) pirate novels will have suppressed a shudder upon hearing that they were making their way to the screen. Shudder ye not, for...
- 3/19/2012
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Aardman’s latest stop-motion feature is huge fun, stuffed with great gags, lovely design, and a wonderfully Pythonesque sense of humour. Read our review here…
Aardman Animations’ latest arrives with a brilliantly silly title, a brilliantly nerdy sense of humour and more gags per square inch than you’d think permissible by EU standards. Adapted by Gideon Defoe from the first in his series of comedy novels (great family reading, every one of them), and directed by Aardman’s very own captain, Peter Lord, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists oozes playful fun.
The story sees the luxuriantly-bearded Pirate Captain (voiced by Hugh Grant) determined to up his status in the piratic world by winning the Pirate of the Year award. The problem? Despite his bouncing, full-bodied facial hair and loyal crew, he’s considered something of a laughing stock amongst the popular pirate clique (Salma Hayek, Lenny Henry,...
Aardman Animations’ latest arrives with a brilliantly silly title, a brilliantly nerdy sense of humour and more gags per square inch than you’d think permissible by EU standards. Adapted by Gideon Defoe from the first in his series of comedy novels (great family reading, every one of them), and directed by Aardman’s very own captain, Peter Lord, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists oozes playful fun.
The story sees the luxuriantly-bearded Pirate Captain (voiced by Hugh Grant) determined to up his status in the piratic world by winning the Pirate of the Year award. The problem? Despite his bouncing, full-bodied facial hair and loyal crew, he’s considered something of a laughing stock amongst the popular pirate clique (Salma Hayek, Lenny Henry,...
- 3/18/2012
- Den of Geek
CGI-heavy animated films may be more familiar to today's audiences but stop-motion is very much alive and kicking, according to Aardman Animation.s Daz Burgess . one of the animators on up-coming feature The Pirates! Band of Misfits.
.As long as there are companies like Aardman, there will still be stop-motion films,. Burgess said, adding that respected directors such as Tim Burton (The Corpse Bride) and Henry Sellick (Coraline) continue to favour the medium.
Based on a series of novels by Gideon Defoe, The Pirates! Band of Misfits tells the story of the Pirate Captain (voiced by Hugh Grant) and his attempts to win the Pirate of the Year Award as he deals with a maniacal Queen (Imelda Staunton) and a love-struck Charles Darwin (David Tennant).
It.s been seven years since Aardman Animation.s last stop-motion feature . Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit, on which Burgess also worked . and much has changed.
.As long as there are companies like Aardman, there will still be stop-motion films,. Burgess said, adding that respected directors such as Tim Burton (The Corpse Bride) and Henry Sellick (Coraline) continue to favour the medium.
Based on a series of novels by Gideon Defoe, The Pirates! Band of Misfits tells the story of the Pirate Captain (voiced by Hugh Grant) and his attempts to win the Pirate of the Year Award as he deals with a maniacal Queen (Imelda Staunton) and a love-struck Charles Darwin (David Tennant).
It.s been seven years since Aardman Animation.s last stop-motion feature . Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit, on which Burgess also worked . and much has changed.
- 3/13/2012
- by Danii Logue
- IF.com.au
CGI-heavy animated films may be more familiar to today's audiences but stop-motion is very much alive and kicking, according to Aardman Animation.s Daz Burgess . one of the animators on up-coming feature The Pirates! Band of Misfits. .As long as there are companies like Aardman, there will still be stop-motion films,. Burgess said, adding that respected directors such as Tim Burton (The Corpse Bride) and Henry Sellick (Coraline) continue to favour the medium. Based on a series of novels by Gideon Defoe, The Pirates! Band of Misfits tells the story of the Pirate Captain (voiced by Hugh Grant) and his attempts to win the Pirate of the Year Award as he deals with a maniacal Queen (Imelda Staunton) and a love-struck Charles Darwin (David Tennant). It.s...
- 3/13/2012
- by Danii Logue
- IF.com.au
Based on the "The Pirates!" book series by Gideon Defoe, Sony Pictures Animation's The Pirates! Band of Misfits represents the studio's latest collaboration with Aardman Animation. Directed by Aardman's co-founder Peter Lord (who also directed 2000's Chicken Run ), Pirates! represents a massively scaled foray into feature-length stop-motion animation. The film tells the story of a highly jovial (but somewhat misguided) Pirate crew and their quest for their Captain (known only as "The Pirate Captain") to win the "Pirate of the Year" award. Along the way, they find themselves teaming with Charles Darwin to go up against the pirate-hating Queen Victoria and some of the deadliest sea-faring, swashbuckling competition of all time. Featuring the voice...
- 3/7/2012
- Comingsoon.net
Actor and Character Match-Ups for The Pirates! Band of Misfits. Sony's animated comedy opens April 27th, directed by Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt from the Gideon Defoe script, based on his book. Voice cast includes Hugh Grant, Brendan Gleeson, Jeremy Piven, Brian Blessed, Lenny Henry, Salma Hayek, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton, Martin Freeman, Ryssell Tovey and Ashley Jensen. We invite you to see character to actor match-ups for Hugh Grant (The Pirate Captain), David Tennant (Charles Darwin), Martin Freeman (Pirate with Scarf) and Imelda Staunton (The Queen). In The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Hugh Grant stars in his first animated role as the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain...
- 3/6/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Actor and Character Match-Ups for The Pirates! Band of Misfits. Sony's animated comedy opens April 27th, directed by Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt from the Gideon Defoe script, based on his book. Voice cast includes Hugh Grant, Brendan Gleeson, Jeremy Piven, Brian Blessed, Lenny Henry, Salma Hayek, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton, Martin Freeman, Ryssell Tovey and Ashley Jensen. We invite you to see character to actor match-ups for Hugh Grant (The Pirate Captain), David Tennant (Charles Darwin), Martin Freeman (Pirate with Scarf) and Imelda Staunton (The Queen). In The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Hugh Grant stars in his first animated role as the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain...
- 3/6/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Actor and Character Match-Ups for The Pirates! Band of Misfits. Sony's animated comedy opens April 27th, directed by Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt from the Gideon Defoe script, based on his book. Voice cast includes Hugh Grant, Brendan Gleeson, Jeremy Piven, Brian Blessed, Lenny Henry, Salma Hayek, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton, Martin Freeman, Ryssell Tovey and Ashley Jensen. We invite you to see character to actor match-ups for Hugh Grant (The Pirate Captain), David Tennant (Charles Darwin), Martin Freeman (Pirate with Scarf) and Imelda Staunton (The Queen). In The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Hugh Grant stars in his first animated role as the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain...
- 3/6/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Check out this new behind the scenes featurette, courtesy of Yahoo! Movies for The Pirates! Band of Misfits, or as it is titled here in the UK, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, the latest stop-motion, 3D, animated film from Aardman Animations which stars (the voices of) Hugh Grant, Martin Freeman, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton, Jeremy Piven, Salma Hayek, Brian Blessed, Brendan Gleeson, and Ashley Jensen.
Hugh Grant, starring in his first animated role, is the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to the much coveted Pirate Of The Year Award. It’s a quest...
Hugh Grant, starring in his first animated role, is the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to the much coveted Pirate Of The Year Award. It’s a quest...
- 2/17/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Check out the third poster for The Pirates! Band of Misfits, starring Hugh Grant, David Tennant, Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Jeremy Piven, Brian Blessed, Lenny Henry, Salma Hayek, Imelda Staunton, Russell Tovey and Ashley Jensen. Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt direct from the script by Gideon Defoe, who wrote the book "The Pirates! (in an Adventure with Scientists)" In The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Hugh Grant stars in his first animated role as the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to the much coveted Pirate Of The Year Award...
- 2/8/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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