The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Sherlock fandom on tumblr, I am very disappointed in you. There exists a movie in which Martin Freeman has a huge co-starring role as the exasperated-yet-supportive first mate/life partner to a pirate captain-Martin’s character’s name is literally Number Two (yes, yes, go ahead; being twenty-four is no reason not to enjoy a good poop joke)-while simultaneously wearing a scarf. Okay, the scarf is red, but still! Number Two spends at least half of The Pirates! Band of Misfits face-palming because of something crazy (yet strangely adorable) his pirate captain (er, actually Hugh Grant’s character’s name is literally Pirate Captain) has done.
Where are my amusing crossover stories/gifs of Mycroft looking on in despair as pirate captain!Sherlock and first mate!John go sailing across the world looking for booty and solving crimes on the high seas? (“What can we deduce about his parrot?” “I don’t know.” “Neither do I, but initially he wanted to be a detective.”) Come on, surely somebody else sees this?! I don’t know what this world is coming to when I can’t get at least one luxurious beard/luxurious curls comparison. Maybe once the DVD comes out, there will be more. :D
Anyway, The Pirates! Band of Misfits was indeed a lot of fun despite…problematic portrayals of women and the odd demonization of historical figures for no apparent reason other than because a villain was needed. (“I hate pirates because they’re old-fashioned!” shrieks Imelda Staunton’s Queen Victoria-who was, like, crazy conservative in her politics and social views at the time. WTF?) David Tennant’s Charles Darwin was also rather strange.
The other two women I remember were Salma Hayek’s Cutlass Liz (who, though a badass female captain, which is nice, is ridiculously overly sexified, which is not) and Ashley Jensen’s Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate (…yeah. In a universe where females can openly serve as pirates, this character’s running gag is paying lip service toward concealing her gender behind a fake beard. But…why would she do that if pirates can openly be female?).
Moving on, Aardman’s claymation made each scene look very lovingly put-together with tons of details I think you would need to pause frame-by-frame to really take in. My dad and I had a great time trying to read all the pub signs and catch all the action going on in the background. The only thing is that in terms of showing human faces, the claymation seems somewhat less expressive and energetic than I’m used to with digital animation. This is something I never noticed with Aardman’s other films, like Chicken Run, for example, so clearly I’m just becoming snobby in my old age.
EDIT: The fabulous daasgrrl has made a perfect crossover vid that is just squee-worthy wonderful. Check it out!
Where are my amusing crossover stories/gifs of Mycroft looking on in despair as pirate captain!Sherlock and first mate!John go sailing across the world looking for booty and solving crimes on the high seas? (“What can we deduce about his parrot?” “I don’t know.” “Neither do I, but initially he wanted to be a detective.”) Come on, surely somebody else sees this?! I don’t know what this world is coming to when I can’t get at least one luxurious beard/luxurious curls comparison. Maybe once the DVD comes out, there will be more. :D
Anyway, The Pirates! Band of Misfits was indeed a lot of fun despite…problematic portrayals of women and the odd demonization of historical figures for no apparent reason other than because a villain was needed. (“I hate pirates because they’re old-fashioned!” shrieks Imelda Staunton’s Queen Victoria-who was, like, crazy conservative in her politics and social views at the time. WTF?) David Tennant’s Charles Darwin was also rather strange.
The other two women I remember were Salma Hayek’s Cutlass Liz (who, though a badass female captain, which is nice, is ridiculously overly sexified, which is not) and Ashley Jensen’s Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate (…yeah. In a universe where females can openly serve as pirates, this character’s running gag is paying lip service toward concealing her gender behind a fake beard. But…why would she do that if pirates can openly be female?).
Moving on, Aardman’s claymation made each scene look very lovingly put-together with tons of details I think you would need to pause frame-by-frame to really take in. My dad and I had a great time trying to read all the pub signs and catch all the action going on in the background. The only thing is that in terms of showing human faces, the claymation seems somewhat less expressive and energetic than I’m used to with digital animation. This is something I never noticed with Aardman’s other films, like Chicken Run, for example, so clearly I’m just becoming snobby in my old age.
EDIT: The fabulous daasgrrl has made a perfect crossover vid that is just squee-worthy wonderful. Check it out!