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| Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: August 6, 1982 |
Starring:
Bill Kerr, Christopher Atkins, Chuck McKinney, Garry McDonald, Kate Ferguson, Kristy McNichol, Linda Nagle, Maggie Kirkpatrick, Marc Colombani, Ted Hamilton
Summary:
The crew of a large ship sail the high seas encountering other pirates from other ships. The boy from the ship ends up having to save his girlfriend who is kidnapped by a bunch of other pirates.
There must be a musical somewhere in the musty vaults of movie history
as bad as The Pirate Movie, but I'm at a loss to recall it
- speaking comparatively, this unclean thing imparts to Can't Stop the
Music and Xanadu the delicacy and charm of a moment with Fred Astaire. It
makes you long for The Blue Lagoon. It encourages you to baste yourself
in that masterpiece of oily ennui, Summer Lovers. It makes an evening with
Kate Smith look good; hell, it makes an evening with Margaret Trudeau look
good. [9 Aug 1982]
Somebody at 20th Century-Fox should have had the decency to deep-six The Pirate Movie. It stinks, but it's first. The Pirate Movie's sole accomplishment is making it to the screen before Universal's The Pirates of Penzance, thus poisoning the well for the real thing. [7 Aug 1982, p.C4]
Pop tunes are mixed in with some of the original G&S songs in a pirate period setting that grates on the nerves, as does the inane toilet humor that substitutes for wit. All the performers, especially McNichol, look as if they can't wait until the film is over, and one can hardly blame them.
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