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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (film)

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! poster.jpg
British theatrical release poster
Directed by Peter Lord
Jeff Newitt (co-director)
Produced by Julie Lockhart
Peter Lord
David Sproxton
Screenplay by Gideon Defoe
Based on The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
by Gideon Defoe
Starring Hugh Grant
Martin Freeman
Imelda Staunton
David Tennant
Jeremy Piven
Salma Hayek
Lenny Henry
Brian Blessed
Music by Theodore Shapiro
Cinematography Frank Passingham
Edited by Justin Krish
Production
company
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
  • 28 March 2012 (2012-03-28) (United Kingdom)
  • 27 April 2012 (2012-04-27) (United States)
Running time
88 minutes
Country United Kingdom
United States
Language English
Budget $55 million
Box office $123 million
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Film score by Theodore Shapiro
Released 24 April 2012
Recorded 2012
Genre Score
Length 51:04
Label Madison Gate Records
Theodore Shapiro film scores chronology
The Big Year
(2011)
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
(2012)
Hope Springs
(2012)

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (released in North America, Australia and New Zealand as The Pirates! Band of Misfits) is a 2012 British-American3D stop-motion animated swashbuckler comedy film produced by Aardman Animations and Sony Pictures Animation as their second and final collaborative project. It was directed by Peter Lord.

The film was distributed by Columbia Pictures and was released on 28 March 2012 in the United Kingdom, and on 27 April 2012 in the United States.The Pirates! features the voices of Hugh Grant, Martin Freeman, Imelda Staunton, David Tennant, Jeremy Piven, Salma Hayek, Lenny Henry and Brian Blessed.

The film is loosely based on The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, the first book from Gideon Defoe's The Pirates! series. It follows The Pirate Captain and his crew of amateur pirates in their attempt to win the Pirate of the Year competition.

The Pirates! is the fifth feature film by Aardman Animations, and its first stop-motion animated feature since Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit in 2005, and Aardman's first stop-motion clay animated film released in 3D and shot in 2.35:1 widescreen. The film received positive reviews, while it was a modest box office success, earning $123 million against the budget of $55 million.


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