So Aardman Animations has a new film coming out, called Pirates! Band of Misfits. It looks really tremendously cute, as it depicts a bunch of pirates via CGI-enhanced stop-motion animation. All good so far. Now a new trailer for the film seeks to parody The Hunger Games, and while that seems like a shaky tactic…
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You wouldn't think that a playful family comedy like Aardman Animation's The Pirates! Band of Misfits would court much controversy, especially seeing as it won't even be released for another two months. But one joke shown in the trailer, released last year, has already drawn enough criticism to prompt the studio to take action. Aardman…
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You'd be forgiven for suffering from pirate fatigue after this year's lackluster fourth entry in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, but these delightful trailers for Aardman Animation's The Pirates! Band of Misfits prove there's still plenty of fun to be found on the high seas. Directed by Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt, the stop…
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Can you resist the grinning appeal of a new claymation animated film from Aardman Animation? I'm not certain that I can, if the first trailer for The Pirates! Band of Misfits is any indication. The film adapts Gideon Defoe‘s book The Pirates! In an Adventure With Scientists -- a loopy tale of high-seas misadventure and…
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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Aardman Animation doesn't just have the CGI holiday film Arthur Christmas to release in the next year. The company also has the stop-motion The Pirates! Band of Misfits, based in part on Gideon Defoe‘s book The Pirates! In an Adventure With Scientists. The cast was announced not long ago, and is a thing of beauty:…
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Sony and Aardman Animation have teamed for a new 3D stop-motion animated film, called The Pirates! Band of Misfits, based in part on Gideon Defoe's book The Pirates! In an Adventure With Scientists. (Which is also the film's title in the UK, I believe.) That isn't news, but the first still, above, and the announcement…
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