Yellowbeard
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Movie Reviews of Yellowbeard
Movie Review: Had enough Johnny Depp for a while?
Summary: 5 Stars
Are you in the mood for a pirate with a little more experience under his swordbelt, a man who takes an old-fashioned sort of pride in raping and robbing and who, if the circumstances are right, will force men to eat their own lips? Then you need to set sail with Yellowbeard.
Yellowbeard is Graham Chapman's fierce and mighty captain in this classic seafaring movie set in the golden age of piracy. Chapman -- best known for his work with Monty Python's Flying Circus, particularly as Brian in "Life of Brian" and Arthur in "The Holy Grail" -- chews scenery with such gusto you expect him to bite through ship's planks and maybe a palm tree or two. He is hail and hearty, greedy to a fault and ruthless in his pursuit of enough Spanish gold to make him the richest man in the world.
The story is simple but fun, and the cast is pure comedic delight, including Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin, Madeline Kahn, Peter Cook, Michael Hordern, Eric Idle, Peter Boyle, John Cleese and Marty Feldman. Chapman in particular roars through the movie with bloodthirsty enthusiasm; the man was a true comic genius.
This movie is mostly about silliness and meaningless fun, with only a thin thread of a plot holding it together. Critics who dismiss it as nonsense miss the point. It's rough and unpolished, and even funnier for it. "Yellowbeard" is a laugh riot, and it deserves to be pulled from the shelf and enjoyed at least once each year.
by Tom Knapp, Rambles.NET editor
Movie Review: Great Film - Barely adequate job on the DVD release.
Summary: 5 Stars
One of my all time favorite movies. By all means buy it! Unfortunately the title has not been available for years except from third market copies and used VHS vendors. Just be aware of a couple of things before you get it.
Watching this DVD it became clear that the owners of the MGM film library were looking to cash in on the recent pirate craze with a minimum of effort. In fact if they spent any less effort the box would have been plain white with the title on it in New Courier and the disc itself would have had no title on it at all.
Picture quality is way better than a new VHS tape, but below DVD standards. Your average DVD release of the family vacation adventure to the tar pits will have more features than this thing. A DVD that truly only the fans could love.
Unfortunately if you want this movie, this is what your stuck with. Better stock up on a few and lock them away in a climate controlled vault full of nitrogen gas for best preservation. It will probably be thirty or more years before the holders of the MGM library releases another run of this movie.
"Your mission was as so much fart gas!"
Movie Review: I said hands off! Do I have to do everything myself?!
Summary: 5 Stars
This swashbuckling funfest, written by Graham Chapman (who plays Yellowbeard) and Peter Cook (Lord Lambourne), had been off the shelf for much too long! Both are gone, but we have their humor in this film...
Captain Yellowbeard, betrayed by his right-hand man Moon (played by Peter Boyle) is sentenced to 20 years in prison. Right before he's to be released, Her Majesty Queen Anne furthers his sentence another 20 years and the pirate escapes to find his intellectual son, Dan (Martin Hewitt). He, Dan, Lord Lambourne, and Professor Gilcrest (you will recognise this actor as having played the ghost Marley in the Allistair Sim version of A Christmas Carol) go on an adventure to find the treasure.
Eric Idle, Cheech and Chong are cast members, and the late, dear Madeline Kahn as Dan's mother steals the picture! Even David Bowie has a cameo part! This was Marty Feldman's (Igor in Young Frankenstein)last movie. As a matter of fact, he had a massive heart attack while making this, and had he not been on this rural location he might have survived.
Go on! Take a walk on the wild side and see this movie~
Movie Review: Pythonesque
Summary: 5 Stars
There is good reason for this film to be very reminiscent of Monty Python: Many of the Puthon cast are present. Also present are other notables like Cheech and CHong, Marty Feldman, James Mason and Madeline Kahn. They all come together for a great comedy if one is prepared at the outset not to take it too seriously.
It is the reign of Queen Ann and the notorious pirate, Yellowbeard, has been locked up for 20 years. Everyone wants to know where his treasure is and a scheme is hatched to find it. A queen's officer comes by the prison to inform him that back when he was sentenced, nobody was really expected to survive the horrid conditions of prison for 20 years. To make up for the mistake, his sentence is changed to life. Naturally, this hacks off the pirate who immediately breaks heads and breaks out. Then the chase is on as diverse interests try to pursue him and find the treasure.
It is completely silly in the way that only a farce can be. It is also highly entertaining.
Movie Review: Brilliant movie, let down by inferior marketing
Summary: 5 Stars
The movie Yellowbeard is a very clever, classic, cult movie that has meteoric appeal to fans of Monty Python. You only need to Google it to find passionate reviews. Unfortunately, those not be aware of the brilliant Pythonesque team and madness of the movie, will not be assisted in discovering this movie due to the inferior graphic marketing of the DVD cover. The front image focuses on Cheech and Chong, who, although contributing much to the movie, are definately not the main stars. The emphasis on the cover should be reversed, with Graham Chapman, Madeline Khan, or Eric Idle, Peter Cook, etc, over C&C. Worse than that, the blurb on the back is the weakest and laziest I've read, (like the over-acting in the movie, "it's pathetic!")and not only comes no way near describing the story, but is also inaccurate. The reviewer hasn't even watched the movie, or couldn't care. If you enjoy the Life of Brian or the Holy Grail, then you'll love this and will be quoting the clever lines for years to come.