The Pirate Movie
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Movie Reviews of The Pirate Movie
Movie Review: FUN MOVIE and GREAT MUSIC!
Summary: 5 Stars
I absolutely love this movie. Though it is far fetched, it's from the 80's, so what would you expect. I love the chemistry between Chris Atkins and Kristy McNichol and I'd love it if they made a sequel to this movie. I used to watch this as a teen and I loved the romance of it all. The music is great, there is some decent comedy (which I now fully understand) and the acting is good. It's a nice movie to get lost in for a little while and forget your troubles, chores, etc. I just wish I could find the soundtrack on cd for this movie though.Movie Review: Family Favorite
Summary: 5 Stars
We first found this movie when my daughters were pre-teens. It is still one of our all time favorites. If you like musicals like Grease and Bye-Bye Birdie, you will be a fan of this one as well. We were so happy to find it on DVD because we had been using a recorded off TV VHS for many years. Give me a happy ending - every time!Movie Review: Give me a happy ending every time ...
Summary: 3 Stars
I am on a Christopher Atkins kick these days. It sounds like a strange thing to say, but having recently discovered the tripe that he starred in has really done something to me. What that is, I'm not sure, but this is a movie that slipped under the radar. It deserved to slip under the radar, but going back to this hilarious song and dance takes me back to a simpler time.
This is a modern day version of Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance. It's rather campy and silly with the off color humor, the hoaky costumes, and the typical Ugly Duckling story. The Pirate King is Fabio, Kristy McNichol is the nervous geek girl, and of course Christopher Atkins (who choose to embrace his teen idol status rather than fight it) bares his chest a lot.
Have fun with it.
Movie Review: Even worse than "Gentlemen of Titipu"
Summary: 1 Stars
Well, I hate to admit to being wrong, but there actually is a worse Sullivan & Gilbert adaptation than "Gentlemen of Titipu". This one seems to pin its hopes on the presence of some delectable eye candy - namely, Chris Atkins, fresh from taking his clothes off in "Blue Lagoon". This is a performance that "runs the emotional gamut from A to B" - as the brilliant Dorothy Parker once snipped about the equally brilliant Katharine Hepburn.
Don't worry, friends; it goes downhill from there.
The film in question goes by the title "The Pirate Movie". The reason for the title is, apparently, that the people responsible have pirated some pieces of Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance" - just enough to make you wish they had pirated the whole operetta and jettisoned the drek they added to the maimed remains they used.
Appearing in this wanton travesty are a bunch of little- and un-knowns who couldn't have salvaged the production even if it was good. Which of course it isn't. So the whole baggage sinks under its own dead, dead, dead, boring weight. Well, it wasn't their fault, really; it was a job for a lot of people who, judging by their credits on the IMDB, didn't get many. The names are withheld to protect the presumed innocent.
The story of "The Pirate Movie" follows the general and well-known outline of "Pirates of Penzance" (which is easy enough to look up if you don't know it) - although with a number of rather stupid changes that sap it of its original vitality. To substitute for this vapidity, a composer was hired to write some "up" music. His talent, if any, is scarcely on display. What we get meager quotations from some of Sullivan's "Penzance" tunes - although not always readily recognizable and usually not in the spirit of the original. Then there is a lot of stuff in a two-bit modern idiom that is also wholly out of touch with Sullivan's originality and wittiness.
This film is so awful on so many levels it's hard to find anything positive to say about it. The color is vibrant; that is to say, wasted on what it shows. The sound is at least too good for the material.
Ah, well. At least Atkins runs about in descamiado mode for most of the film, which I suppose is some slight compensation. And not enough. Avoid this turkey.
Movie Review: Very tongue-in-cheek
Summary: 4 Stars
I happened to catch this on TV in the early mid-eighties; I was ALMOST a teenager when I first saw this. I thought it was funny then. Then, a couple weeks ago, I saw it on TV. I had never remembered what it was called until seeing it this most recent time. I didn't get a chance to watch the whole thing as I had to go to work, but I was laughing so hard I decided I had to buy it.
Needless to say, as a tween I didn't catch all the jokes, so everything I laughed at then was still funny as well as a few others. A few boo-birds are trying to give this a bum rap. I don't think it was necessarily intended to be someones riff on Pirates of Penzance. It's more of a parody of Penzance, interlaced with satirical commentary of a 1980's sensibility and what was important at the time...sort of. LOL
Let's call it what it is, campy. But it's also funny, partly because of the campiness. But for water's sake, it's a fweaking movie. Sit back and enjoy it and laugh your backside off.