The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, released in the US and Australia as The Pirates! Band of Misfits, is a 3-D stop-motion animated film produced by Aardman Animations in partnership with Sony Pictures Animation. It was directed by Peter Lord, the director of Chicken Run. The film was distributed by Columbia Pictures and was released on 28 March 2012 in the UK and on 27 April 2012 in the US.The Pirates! features the voices of Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek, Jeremy Piven, Imelda Staunton and David Tennant.
The film is based on the first two books from Gideon Defoe's The Pirates! series, The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists and The Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling. It is Aardman's fifth animated feature film, and its first stop-motion clay animated feature released in 3D.
Directors: Peter Lord, Jeff Newitt
Writer: Gideon Defoe (screenplay)
Stars: Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek and Jeremy Piven
In The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Hugh Grant stars in his first animated
role as the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain - a boundlessly
enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High
Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson,
Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the
impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat
his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma
Hayek) to the much coveted Pirate Of The
Year Award. It's a quest that takes our heroes from the shores of
exotic Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London. Along the
way they battle a diabolical queen (Imelda Staunton) and team up with a
haplessly smitten young scientist (David Tennant), but never lose sight
of what a pirate loves best: adventure!
