The Pirate Movie | Kristy McNichol, Christopher Atkins

The Pirate Movie | Kristy McNichol, Christopher Atkins | Family Favorite

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The Pirate Movie

	The Pirate Movie Kristy McNichol, Christopher Atkins Starz / Anchor Bay, 2005 average customer review:based on 162 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

"Buckle your swash and jolly your roger for the ultimate musical comedy pirate adventure! Kristy McNichol (LITTLE DARLINGS) and Christopher Atkins (THE BLUE LAGOON) star as dreamy young lovers in this uproarious update of Gilbert & Sullivan?s THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, filled with virtuous maidens and shirtless cutthroats, savage swordplay and buried treasure, a dashing Pirate King (Ted Hamilton) and a modern Major General (Bill Kerr), plus plenty of pillaging, plundering, plank-walking fun! For years, fans have been clamoring for this infamous ?80s musical from the Oscar®-nominated director of THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES (1966). The wait is over: THE PIRATE MOVIE is now presented with a brand-new Widescreen Transfer, featuring a fascinating new Director?s Commentary and mixed in timber-shivering Dolby 5.1 Surround! "

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FUN MOVIE and GREAT MUSIC!

I absolutely love this movie. Though it is far fetched, it's from the 80's, so what would you expect. I love the chemistry between Chris Atkins and Kristy McNichol and I'd love it if they made a sequel to this movie. I used to watch this as a teen and I loved the romance of it all. The music is great, there is some decent comedy (which I now fully understand) and the acting is good. It's a nice movie to get lost in for a little while and forget your troubles, chores, etc. I just wish I could find the soundtrack on cd for this movie though.

Family Favorite

We first found this movie when my daughters were pre-teens. It is still one of our all time favorites. If you like musicals like Grease and Bye-Bye Birdie, you will be a fan of this one as well. We were so happy to find it on DVD because we had been using a recorded off TV VHS for many years. Give me a happy ending - every time!

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Very tongue-in-cheek

I happened to catch this on TV in the early mid-eighties; I was ALMOST a teenager when I first saw this. I thought it was funny then. Then, a couple weeks ago, I saw it on TV. I had never remembered what it was called until seeing it this most recent time. I didn't get a chance to watch the whole thing as I had to go to work, but I was laughing so hard I decided I had to buy it.
Needless to say, as a tween I didn't catch all the jokes, so everything I laughed at then was still funny as well as a few others. A few boo-birds are trying to give this a bum rap. I don't think it was necessarily intended to be someones riff on Pirates of Penzance. It's more of a parody of Penzance, interlaced with satirical commentary of a 1980's sensibility and what was important at the time...sort of. LOL
Let's call it what it is, campy. But it's also funny, partly because of the campiness. But for water's sake, it's a fweaking movie. Sit back and enjoy it and laugh your backside off.

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Give me a happy ending every time ...

I am on a Christopher Atkins kick these days. It sounds like a strange thing to say, but having recently discovered the tripe that he starred in has really done something to me. What that is, I'm not sure, but this is a movie that slipped under the radar. It deserved to slip under the radar, but going back to this hilarious song and dance takes me back to a simpler time.

This is a modern day version of Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance. It's rather campy and silly with the off color humor, the hoaky costumes, and the typical Ugly Duckling story. The Pirate King is Fabio, Kristy McNichol is the nervous geek girl, and of course Christopher Atkins (who choose to embrace his teen idol status rather than fight it) bares his chest a lot.

Have fun with it.

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