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- 1982
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 38 m
- 1982
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 38 m
Summary The crew of a large ship sail the high seas encountering other pirates from other ships. The boy from the ship ends up having to save his girlfriend who is kidnapped by a bunch of other pirates.
Directed By: Ken Annakin, Richard Franklin
Written By: W.S. Gilbert, Trevor Farrant
- 1982
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 38 m
- 1982
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 38 m
The Pirate Movie
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Summary The crew of a large ship sail the high seas encountering other pirates from other ships. The boy from the ship ends up having to save his girlfriend who is kidnapped by a bunch of other pirates.
Directed By: Ken Annakin, Richard Franklin
Written By: W.S. Gilbert, Trevor Farrant
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Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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17% Mixed
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83% Negative
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5 Reviews
Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
19
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
17% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
83% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
The Pirate Movie suggests what Gilbert & Sullivan's original would look and sound like if it were rewritten by a boy-crazed middle-schooler who'd rather drool over John Travolta in Grease for the 50th time than suffer through anything close to opera.
The Pirate Movie stars Kristy McNichol and Christopher Atkins in a cut-rate kiddie version of Gilbert and Sullivan, laced with synthetic pop ballads and leavened with infantile dirty jokes.
There must be a musical somewhere in the musty vaults of movie history
as bad as The Pirate Movie, but I'm at a loss to recall it
- speaking comparatively, this unclean thing imparts to Can't Stop the
Music and Xanadu the delicacy and charm of a moment with Fred Astaire. It
makes you long for The Blue Lagoon. It encourages you to baste yourself
in that masterpiece of oily ennui, Summer Lovers. It makes an evening with
Kate Smith look good; hell, it makes an evening with Margaret Trudeau look
good. [9 Aug 1982]
Somebody at 20th Century-Fox should have had the decency to deep-six The Pirate Movie. It stinks, but it's first. The Pirate Movie's sole accomplishment is making it to the screen before Universal's The Pirates of Penzance, thus poisoning the well for the real thing. [7 Aug 1982, p.C4]
A blockheaded travesty that fancies itself a rollicking update of "The Pirates of Penzance."
Pop tunes are mixed in with some of the original G&S songs in a pirate period setting that grates on the nerves, as does the inane toilet humor that substitutes for wit. All the performers, especially McNichol, look as if they can't wait until the film is over, and one can hardly blame them.
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Awards
Razzie Awards
• 3 Wins & 9 Nominations
Australian Film Institute
• 2 Nominations
The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
• 1 Nomination
