katikat | So You Want to Be a Pirate!

This is a short stop-motion animated movie based on Pirates! A Band of Misfits. I haven't seen that movie yet and I wasn't sure if it was for me, which is why I bought this cheap shortie to see what the whole thing was about. And now I really want to see it, the feature film, I mean!

Hugh Grant, Martin Freeman, David Tennant, Brian Blessed, Salma Hayek etc. and so on voicing pirates, folks! Hilarious! The Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) is such a tool! And his relationship with the only normal person on board, the Pirate with the Scarf (Martin Freeman), is simply a hoot! Nobody can do deadpan like Martin Freeman. The BTS featurette on this DVD is so funny, the voice actors seem to have had so much fun doing the characters. I just love it, the BTS vids showing the voice actors reading their lines. Wonderful!

I guess I will have to get my hands on the movie, then. I'm really loving all the animated films from Aardman, like this or Arthur Christmas!