Yellowbeard
by Mel Damski
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Actor: Cheech Marin, Graham Chapman, Peter Boyle, Peter Cook, Tommy ChongDirector: Mel Damski
Brand: CHAPMAN,GRAHAM
Writer: Graham Chapman
Writer: Peter Cook
Cinematographer: Gerry Fisher
Producer: Carter DeHaven
Producer: John Daly
Writer: Bernard McKenna
Writer: David Sherlock
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-27
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Yellowbeard
Movie Review: An underrated semi-classic
Summary: 4 Stars
When it was first released in 1983, critics keel-hauled this cracked version of "Treasure Island," but time has been very kind to "Yellowbeard." The once-in-a-lifetime cast is phenomenal. The film brings together the Goons (via Spike Milligan); Beyond the Fringe (Peter Cook, who was also the co-scenarist); the Pythons (Graham Chapman, who plays the lead and cowrote the script, Eric Idle, and John Cleese, who is terrific as "Blind Pew"), the Mel Brooks stock company (Madeline Kahn--who's great!--Peter Boyle, and Kenneth Mars), Cheech and Chong (the latter of whom for some reason does a Daffy Duck immitation), and Marty Feldman, who bridges all groups (and who tragically died during the filming). Add to this lineup legit British actors James Mason, Michael Hordern and Beryl Reid, and a host of familiar face cameos, including Peter Bull, Bernard Fox, Ferdy Mayne, and David Bowie, and you have one of the most incredible casts of all time! (Only the Carry-Ons were left out.) Anchoring it all is Martin Hewitt, who at the time was the cinema-heartthrob-dejour and as such was Dangerfielded by all the critics, but who is really very good in the Jim Hawkins-surrogate role. The film is consistently funny and batty as hell, fueled by that bizarre, rather subtle and surreal British humor. It's not perfect (director Mel Damski's staging of gags miss the mark as often as they hit it), but the combined efforts of Kahn, Feldman, Cook, Cleese, Idle and Mason are more than worth the price. One consideration for parents: PG in 1983 meant something quite different than PG today. These days PG signifies an animated Disney film, but "Yellowbeard" contains enough bare boobies, raw language and suggestive dialogue as to qualify for a modern soft-R.
Summary of Yellowbeard
For twelve years, Yellowbeard (Graham Chapman) has looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted -- for tax evasion! -- he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him to the Spanish Main, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await. Starring a who's who of comic cutups and cutthroats including Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Cheech and Chong, Marty Feldman, Peter Cook, Madeline Kahn and more!!!Yellowbeard, a comedy cast with the all-star comedians of the 1980s, is a unique, corny spoof on pirate films. Like a Mel Brooks movie, Yellowbeard's plot is a series of ridiculous events, ? la Airplane, circulating around Yellowbeard's (Graham Chapman) discovery that he has an "intellectual" son. Brain versus brawn is the film's theme, as Yellowbeard is forced to take his kid on a booty-hunt, since the pirate's ex-wife, Betty (Madeline Kahn), tattooed the treasure map on their child's head. As the bumbling British, including Harvey "Blind" Pew (John Cleese) and Gilbert Murvin (Marty Feldman), sail The Royal Navy Frigate to trail Yellowbeard's ship, The Lady Edith, The Spanish Main, captained by El Nebuloso (Tommy Chong) and El Segundo (Cheech Marin) follows in close pursuit. Three ships in constant battle on the open seas make for multiple comedic situations reminiscent of Monty Python. Directed by Mel Damski (Charmed, Lois & Clark), Yellowbeard has a made-for-TV cheesiness, though the talent of the actors, not to mention its off-kilter British humor, rescues the film from utter stupidity. --Trinie Dalton
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