Yellowbeard

Actueel Film | Release Date: June 24, 1983

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39	METASCORE Generally unfavorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews

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Warren Clements

The best way to approach it is not as a comedy but as a straight pirate movie with exceedingly odd twists. Certainly it makes better use of its sterling actors than The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978), also co-written by and co-starring Cook, made of its sultans-of-comedy cast. [30 Jun 2006, p.R25]

Lawrence Van Gelder

What Yellowbeard establishes is that for even the funniest of performers, a good script may be as essential as pitching is to baseball. Read full review

TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)

There are about as many laughs in the film's 101 minutes as in a three-minute sketch by the Monty Python troupe, from which much of the cast hails. Read full review

Roger Ebert

There's a funny line or two, a fetching performance by Stacey Nelkin as a young wench, some nonsense about a buried treasure, and then Yellowbeard is soon over and soon forgotten. Read full review

Bob Thomas

Yellowbeard is a puzzlement. How could so many comedic talents produce such a mirthless movie? [27 Jun 1983]

Terry Kelleher

With director Mel Damski making his debut at the helm of a feature, Yellowbeard is a film adrift. [27 Jun 1983, p.C6]

Staff (Not Credited)

The script, for which Chapman and Cook must bear some responsibility, is a three-minute Python skit bloated out to feature length, involving buried treasure, revenge, and machinations close to the throne. Depressing stuff. Read full review

The GuardianDerek Malcolm

Do you want to laugh already? Then laugh now, before you see this dispiritingly unfunny pirate movie. Later, it's difficult. Very brief moments only, I'm afraid. [25 Sep 1983, p.19]