D&D Movie Time: The Pirates! Band of Misfits REVIEW

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (released overseas as The Pirates! Band of Misfits) is a 2012 3D stop-motion animated swashbuckler comedy film produced by the British studio Aardman Animations and the American studios Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation as their second and final collaborative project; it is Aardman's first book-based movie as well as their first stop-motion feature film since Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), and Sony Pictures Entertainment's first stop-motion film. Directed by Peter Lord, written by Gideon Defoe, based on DeFoe's 2004 novel The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (the first book from The Pirates! series), and featuring the voices of Hugh Grant, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton, Martin Freeman, Salma Hayek, and Jeremy Piven, it follows a crew of amateur pirates in their attempt to win the Pirate of the Year competition.

The Pirates! was distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing and was released on 28 March 2012 in the United Kingdom, and on 27 April 2012 in the United States. The film received generally positive reviews, and was a modest box office success, earning $123 million against a budget as high as $55 million. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. It was the second film from Sony Pictures Animation to be nominated after Surf's Up.

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