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Was anyone disappointed by this movie?

posted 11 years ago by CLXcool
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Now, I happen to be a fan of Aardman animation. I love the Wallace and Gromit shorts(and its spin-off Shaun the sheep) as well as Chicken Run. But I was very disappointed by this movie. I thought I was going to get something great but in the end, it just turned out to be a mediocre animated film from Aardman(which was a surprise to me).

I had high hopes for this movie, I knew that an animated film about Pirates from Aardman would have been great. In the end, I get something that is less to be desired. Seriously, a captain who only cares about winning a trophy. Where's the character development in that? Most of the characters in the movie were idiots, hell, I wish the bad guys had more screen-time since they were more interesting than half of the main cast. I'm sorry Aardman. I had hopes for this, but in the end you killed it by having unlikable characters and bad writing. Anyone disappointed with this movie?

[–] solmaquina 11 years ago

Yeah, it was absolutely mediocre.

But so was Chicken Run.

Aardman are only really on form when making Wallace & Gromit related things.

Art is a lie that tells the truth.

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[–] jmarkoff2 11 years ago

Absolutely. The trailer made this movie look awesome, especially the va-va-voomer Cutlass Liz, who was only in a small part of the movie. The film was a monotonous bore about unsympathetic idiots, with a plot that was inconsistent and all-over-the-map. The jokes were antediluvian cliche's and lowest-common-denominator obvious chestnuts. The story might have sustained a 25-minute short but not an 88-minute snoozefest.

[–] ibbi 11 years ago

No, I had no real interest in seeing it, but found it to be laugh out loud funny from start to finish. Have to go with the kind of humour, I guess.

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[–] weird_beard 11 years ago

No. What disappoints me is that the "Wreck-it-Ralphs" and "The Muppets" of the world get good reviews largely based on nostalgia, while this gets less than a 7

[–] Mick28 11 years ago

Yes. You were disappointed by it and I'm sure there are several others who were too.

[–] mysim20 11 years ago

Can't say I was disappointed exactly but I didn't enjoy it. The story was very basic and predictable. But a lot of good movies have standard storylines. The difference is made with the execution and details. The story never drifted away from a straightforward predictable line. Also the animation was unfunny. Thats kind of a weird complaint but with stop motion i feel its important to be picky about how fast you animate it. For instance The Fantastic Mr. Fox had quick fast animation that helped make things they do more funny. This movie was slow and almost too smooth, it didn't allow any comedy to sneak in with their actions. I wanted it all to be more satirical too, it felt like a normal pirate movie with jokes. I feel it should've been a movie making fun of pirate movies. They did have a good moment when the sad song came up. That's good satire, but no other parts of the movie really did it for me with the satire.

It did however have some moments that made me laugh and decent voice acting. The models looked great too so it isn't BAD just very mediocre. In my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 10 years ago

"The jokes were antediluvian cliches and lowest-common-denominator obvious chestnuts."

You pretentious tosser! You do realise this film is aimed at an audience aged between 5 and 12 don't you?

[–] puirt-a-beul 9 years ago

this film is aimed at an audience aged between 5 and 12

I'm not sure that's true. I was a bit puzzled watching it, actively wondering who in fact it was aimed at -- because a lot of the verbal humour and visual in-jokes seems like it would sail right over kids' heads; the visual jokes and animation seem like they're aimed at kids, but I actually didn't think they would be enough to keep most kids engaged.

You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.

[–] [email protected] 9 years ago

"because a lot of the verbal humour and visual in-jokes seems like it would sail right over kids' heads"

That's the same with most animated kids films..the more obvious, visual slapstick is aimed at the kids. The more subtle verbal gags and references are there for the benefit of the parents who will be siting through this with their kids. I mean, do you really think that the under 12s watching 'Chicken Run' were aware that it's a spoof of The Great Escape and every other classic WW2 P.O.W film? Of course not. But their parents will. Do you think the kiddywinks got the King Kong reference or the 'angry mob' gag in Curse of the Were-Rabbit? No they won't..but their parents will.

[–] puirt-a-beul 9 years ago

You're so busy being righteous that you completely missed my point. Funny about that.

The examples you gave fro other Aardman films don't need to be understood by kids for the scene to still make sense for them on some entertaining level, but I don't believe that's true about this film. Take away the adult-oriented jokes from this one and there's not a lot left. I'm hesitant to ascribe the difference to the absence of Nick Park, but I do have to wonder ...

You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.

[–] [email protected] 9 years ago

"a captain who only cares about winning a trophy. Where's the character development in that? Most of the characters in the movie were idiots"

You do realise that :
1) this is a comedy aimed at kids

2) The fact that The Captain wants to win the Pirate of the Year shows how shallow and useless he is as apirate.

3) His crew are idiots because they're the only crew who would put up with such a useless captain..and as for the rest of the characters who you say are 'idiots'...again..it's a comedy!!! The 3 Stooges were 'idiots'...the Marx Brothers were 'idiots'...Steve Martin in the Jerk was an 'idiot'. It's the idiocy that creates the humour.

[–] Blueghost 8 years ago

Admittedly when I first saw it in a theatre I didn't think it was all that funny, but I do think that was partially because of the whole 3D thing.

Watching it again on DVD I thought it was one of the funniest films I had seen in a long time.