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- 1986
- PG-13
- Cannon Film Distributors
- 2 h 1 m
- 1986
- PG-13
- Cannon Film Distributors
- 2 h 1 m
Summary The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.
Directed By: Roman Polanski
Written By: John Brownjohn, Gérard Brach, Roman Polanski
- 1986
- PG-13
- Cannon Film Distributors
- 2 h 1 m
- 1986
- PG-13
- Cannon Film Distributors
- 2 h 1 m
Pirates
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Summary The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.
Directed By: Roman Polanski
Written By: John Brownjohn, Gérard Brach, Roman Polanski
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Generally Unfavorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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42% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
58% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
32
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
42% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
58% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
The plot is simple, allowing Polanski great freedom to play with his characters and to give his audience rousing fight scenes. Although the film is a bit slow and talky in spots, it fills the long-ignored gap in Hollywood-style swashbuckling pictures.
The director, Roman Polanski, is often at his weakest in the comedy field, and the insipid vulgarities of this picture are poor substitutes for inventive gags. Yet he shows some of his erstwhile ingenuity when he crowds the screen with sumptuously filmed images of richly costumed characters, much in the manner of his underrated ''Dance of the Vampires'' a number of years ago. [25 July 1986, p.23]
Roman Polanski's Pirates is a decidedly underwhelming comedy adventure adding up to a major disappointment.
Pirates is pure Polanski, but it's unfortunately not good Polanski. Attempting to revamp the swashbuckler genre the way he parodied Dracula movies in "The Fearless Vampire Killers," he's produced an abstract action comedy so emotionally detached it's impossible to stay involved. [28 July 1986, p.70]
Pirates hasn't got an ounce of excitement -- or at least it hasn't excited composer Philippe Sarde, whose score is the symphonic equivalent of Muzak and is rarely wedded to what we see on the screen. So what's left is a pricey playpen for Polanski's sense of perversity. [19 July 1986, p.G1]
Pirates is tedious round after tedious round of mutiny and rescue. Screen people are hanged and stabbed and garroted with great care, but there's nothing to put the audience out of its misery. [22 July 1986, p.5C]
There hasn't been a pirate movie in a long time, and after Roman Polanski's "Pirates," there may not be another one for a very long time. This movie represents some kind of low point for the genre that gave us Captain Blood. It also gives us a new pirate image to ponder.
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