The Pirates! - Bunch of weird guys
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Pirates! - Bunch of weird guys |
| Original title | The Pirates! - In an Adventure with Scientists (UK), The Pirates! - Band of Misfits (USA) |
| Country of production | United Kingdom , United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 0 JMK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Peter Lord Jeff Newitt (co-director) |
| script | Gideon Defoe |
| production | Julie Lockhart Peter Lord David Sproxton |
| music | Theodore Shapiro |
| camera | Charles Copping |
The Pirates! - Bunch of Weird Guys is an animated film based on the first book in the Pirates series ! by British author Gideon Defoe . It is a joint production by Aardman Animations and Sony Pictures Animation . Germany launched on March 29, 2012.
action
The motley crew of a pirate ship, under the leadership of an ambitious and unsuitable captain, tries to gain fame and booty so that the pirate captain wins the Pirate of the Year award on the pirate island of Blood Island. They hijack the Beagle from Charles Darwin , who discovers that Polly , the supposed parrot of the pirate crew, is actually a specimen of the dodo, which is considered extinct . The pirates take Darwin to his London home (run by his trained monkey Bobo) to introduce the dodo to the Royal Society . Darwin tries several times to steal the dodo out of love for the queen and to introduce him himself, but the pirate captain manages to present Polly himself hidden in his beard. The dodo is celebrated as a scientific sensation, but the pirates disguised as scientists are exposed by the pirate-hating Queen Victoria .
The pirate captain leaves the dodo to the queen without the knowledge of his crew and receives a pardon and a large gold treasure. He presents the treasure at the pirate competition, but cannot become pirate of the year there because his pardon is known. Thereupon the "king of the pirates" confiscated the entire gold treasure. When the crew learns that Polly has been sold, they leave their captain. While trying to get at least the pirate crew's beloved Dodo back, the pirate captain and Darwin discover that the Queen plans to eat him and other rare animals on their flagship at a secret meeting with other heads of state. They chase the ship in a zeppelin that they stole from the Royal Society. With the support of the pirate crew brought by Bobo, they manage to save the Dodo, sink the flagship and put the Queen to flight. Finally, the queen withdraws her pardon out of anger and so the pirate captain can now retreat to the island of Blood Island as a respected pirate who is loved by his crew.
background
A total of 70 modellers were involved in the production of around 250 kneading dolls. The pirate ship, which consisted of 44,569 individual parts, weighed 335 kilograms and was 4.2 meters long, turned out to be the most complex part of the models. At the 2013 Academy Awards , the film was nominated in the Best Animated Feature Film category, but could not prevail against Merida - Legend of the Highlands .
synchronization
The synchronization was carried out by FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH . Axel Malzacher was responsible for the dialogue direction and script .
| role | English speaker | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Pirate Captain ( Originally: Pirate Captain ) | Hugh Grant | Patrick Winczewski |
| Entermesser-Liz ( Originally: Cutlass Liz ) | Salma Hayek | Bettina Zimmermann |
| Black Bellamy | Jeremy Piven | Joko Winterscheidt |
| Queen Victoria | Imelda Staunton | Martina Treger |
| Charles Darwin | David Tennant | Axel Malzacher |
| Pirate with the scarf (number two) | Martin Freeman | Sebastian Schulz |
| Holzbein-Hastings ( Originally: Peg-Leg Hastings ) | Lenny Henry | Klaas Heufer-Umlauf |
| Pirate with gout | Brendan Gleeson | Lutz Schnell |
| Pirate with amazing curves | Ashley Jensen | Vera Teltz |
| King of the Pirates | Brian Blessed | Bert Franzke |
| Albino pirate | Russell Tovey | Stefan Krause |
Reviews
“Lovable animation fun with wonderfully weird characters. Compared to earlier works from the creative clay figure animation company Aardman, the film offers little in the way of innovation, but it is entertaining. "
“As in the 'Wallace and Gromit' films or in ' Chicken Run ', this Aardman production fascinates with exuberant attention to detail. With lovingly designed stop-motion technology, an adventure with plasticine figures is created here that is second to none. Even if the humor could have been more British, witty dialogues and sometimes breathtaking slapstick ensure the best family entertainment. "
"The Pirates! - An odd bunch doesn't quite match the high bar of Aardman's early work, but it still offers tons of outrageous fun that doesn't rely on popular pop culture jokes or fecal humor that are popular these days. One can only hope that it doesn’t stop at just one film, because four more books about the pirate captain and his diverse team are waiting to be made into a film. "
Web links
- The Pirates! - Band of Misfits in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website (English, UK)
- Official website (English, USA)
- Interview with the animation artist Hanna Habermann about the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age rating for Die Piraten! - Bunch of weird guys . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b Animationsfilme.ch - The German dubbing voices from Die Piraten . Retrieved March 11, 2012.
- ↑ filmmusicreporter: Theodore Shapiro to Score 'The Pirates! Band of Misfits' , FilmMusicReporter.com. March 18, 2011. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
- ↑ James Silver: How Aardman is embracing the digital age . Wired . November 2, 2010. Retrieved September 25, 2011.
- ↑ http://www.filmstarts.de/kritiken/43118/wissenswertes/
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | The pirates - a bunch of weird guys. Retrieved February 22, 2018 .
- ↑ The pirates! - Bunch of weird guys. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ The pirates! - A bunch of strange guys , prisma.de
- ↑ [1] , Filmfutter.com