"Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists"

The Pirate Captain is not the best at his trade. The only bounty he would come up with is the chocolate bar!! But his crew adore and worship him. So with his trusty 'parrot' at his side, he decides to enter for best Pirate of the Year.
Alas his efforts to achieve this title do not come to fruition, and he becomes the laughing stock of the Pirating community.

Whilst on his voyage he encounters the ship The Beagle, and its captain, one Charles Darwin. Bored with another ship without any gold on board, the Pirates are all set to throw dear Charles off the plank, when he sees Pirate Captain's prized 'Parrot', and it turns out to be a very rare Dodo. For Mr Darwin, this is the find of the Century, and he hopes to show the bird at the London Science Fair and be the envy of the World.
But the trip to London could be the Pirate Captain's most dangerous voyage yet, as it means venturing to the land of Queen Victoria, a monarch who has an intense hatred of all things Pirate. But with the aid of some clever disguises, they manage to pull off quite a coup, well for a little while.
But all too soon, Pirate Captain is disgraced, Polly the Parrot, or should that be Dodo is in the hands of Queen Victoria, and Charles Darwin, who is madly in love with England's longest reigning Monarch (So far), ends up out of love, bereft of a Dodo, and just left with his constant Monkey companion Mr. Bobo.

The race is then on to rescue Polly, for it seems that Queen Victoria does not want the bird as a showpiece for London Zoo, but as the main course at a banquet she is hosting with other World Leaders.

This is a wonderfully delightful film, from the makers of "Wallace & Gromit". Director Peter Lord has done a ship shape job with this latest movie. There are so many gags in the film, many of them visual, that you could certainly watch the film twice and still not see them all. Some are rather subtle, but all are very funny.
The vocal talents of some great actors have been used, from Hugh Grant as The Pirate Captain, David Tennant as Charles Darwin to Brian Blessed as The Pirate King, surely the best casting in the whole film.

For film goers of all ages this film delivers, part with a few pieces of gold and see this great sea faring film........8 out of 10.