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14 July 2011  |  Written by Phil de Semlyen  


Avast landlubbers! Heave ho, etc! There's a new trailer for Aardman's latest stop-motion adventure, The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists, and a poster to boot... and it looks several shades of awesome.

 

Empire was lucky enough to make the trip down to Bristol recently for a tour of the production. We can't say too much at this stage but the footage we saw suggests that we're all in for a treat. Chicken Run director (and creator of everyone's favourite box-dweller Morph) Peter Lord is behind the camera.


There's ham-loving buccaneers, a brash seadog played by Ari Gold, a dodo that thinks it's a parrot, a chimpanzee that thinks it's a person, and a pirate ship built out of bits of two other ships bolted together. There's actor-turned-national-hero Hugh Grant as the slightly hapless Pirate Captain, Martin Freeman as his smarter, Gromit-like sidekick, a pirate-loathing Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton) and a seriously loopy quest for the prestigious 'Pirate Of The Year' award on Blood Island.

How's all that for a slice of buried gold? We're putting both our gold sovereigns on this being one of next year's gems. The Pirates! is out on March 30, 2012, just in time for half-term. This is one Pirates movie you definitely should see.

 


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Love it
Aardman gold. Again. Pure class. More

Posted by TOPOI at 21:07 on 14 July 2011 | Report This Post

Also...one of the Pirates has a Blue Peter badge on his hat? Awesome. More

Posted by mattchorlton at 14:57 on 14 July 2011 | Report This Post

This can only end brilliantly!
What an utterly perfect trailer... More

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Ha! Fish in a hat!
Rated Arrrrrrr! More

Posted by jonnytwist at 12:43 on 14 July 2011 | Report This Post

Oscar material
This looks like the first year for quite a some time that pixar won't be taking home a golden baldy, my guess is it's aardman's turn again More

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