THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS

With the talent doing the voices: Hugh Grant, Imelda Staunton, Jeremy Piven, Salma Hayek and Brendan Gleeson, along with the fact that this is nominated for Best Animated film at the Oscars, you would expect great things. This makes me wonder if the Lorax was really terrible that it lost out on a nomination to Pirates.

Pirates has an interesting story about a pirate captain (named pirate captain-how creative?!!?) vying to win the pirate of the year award from his rivals: Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz while avoiding trouble with Queen Victoria who hates pirates.  It feels like there were too many subplots and especially characters to develop any one of them fully and therefore the film suffered.

I give this a half a thumb sideways for receiving an Oscar nomination which is truly an honor but makes me question judgement of the members of the academy.