The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)

Rating: 30%
Okay, it's the last animated film that is nominated for best animated feature. Let's take a look at The Pirates! Band of Misfits.

Plot: Pirate Captain is a...well pirate captain, who leads a ship full of inexperienced pirates with the help of his first mate, Number Two. Every year, Pirate Captain competes in the Pirates of the Year competition where the winner is crowned pirate king despite plundering very little booty compared the the other pirate captains. During his quest to plunder for more gold, he comes across scientist Charles Darwin who discovers that the captain's parrot Polly, is actually a dodo and they could win a lot of gold at the Scientist of the Year competition. So the pirates attempt to sneak into London to get the gold while trying to avoid being captured by Queen Victoria who has a obsessed hatred for pirates.

Now before I saw this movie, a friend of mine, Tom, told me that he saw this movie and said that he thought it was pretty bad. And...yeah I myself found this film to be rather unimpressive compared to Chicken Run or practically anything from Wallace and Gromit. Don't get me wrong, this film has some good moments as far as some cute little moments of comedy, a nice cast - Martian Freeman was a nice touch what with him also being Bilbo Baggins and all, and of the aspects of the film like Polly the dodo do show some sort of creativity that we would look for when watching Aradman Animations' stop-motion animated films. But that aside, it's just bland. The story was very cheesy and predictable, the characters were not that incredibly memorable, the action wasn't too different from what we've seen already from Aradman, it just was roughly the same things from the previous films but it had no real creativity or spark that makes the other ones so enjoyable.

And that's my review for The Pirates! Band of Misfits. You might like it anyway because it still has the 30 stop-motion animated characters and adventures that we'd expect, but otherwise it was very cheesy, predictable, hardly any of the characters were memorable, it is easily altogether the weakest of the animated nominees in my opinion.