Saturday night, Joel and Katie came over to hang out with Brian and I at our new place. We decided to watch a 
movie and were perusing through the free on-demand movies, and came across probably the most horribly amazing musical of all time....The Pirate Movie.
Apparently it's loosely based on the comic opera, The Pirates of Penzance, and was extremely entertaining with 80's dance numbers, corny songs with unbelievably trite lyrics ("Give me a happy ending, every time. We'll kiss and make up, that's a very peaceful sign. "), and more than enough slightly inappropriate,
not really subtle innuendos, made by Ted Hamilton, the Pirate King, otherwise known as the old guy with the tight pants and the bedazzled....well....his man region had jewels all over it. I'm not kidding....it was like a train wreck. So awful but you can't stop looking. See what I mean?
The movie was nominated for a good number of awards...which thanks to Wikipedia and IMDB, I've listed below:
AFI Awards
Nominated: Best Achievement in Costume Design (Aphrodite Kondos)
Nominated: Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Garry McDonald)
Golden Raspberry Awards
Won: Worst Musical Score
Won: Worst Director (Ken Annakin)
Won: Worst "Original" Song (Pumpin' and Blowin')
Nominated: Worst Picture
Nominated: Worst Screenplay
Nominated: Worst Actor (Christopher Atkins)
Nominated: Worst Actress (Kristy McNichol)
Nominated: Worst Supporting Actor (Ted Hamilton)
Nominated: Worst "Original" Song (Happy Endings)
All in all, if you love mullets, pirates, the 80's, or just poorly written, directed, produced and even more poorly acted films, this is the movie for you!!!
Here is a clip for your enjoyment and convenience:
You can find everything you'd like to know about the pirate movie (including the full script) at
http://www.geocities.com/smac75/index.html
Enjoy!
-Kristy
movie and were perusing through the free on-demand movies, and came across probably the most horribly amazing musical of all time....The Pirate Movie.Apparently it's loosely based on the comic opera, The Pirates of Penzance, and was extremely entertaining with 80's dance numbers, corny songs with unbelievably trite lyrics ("Give me a happy ending, every time. We'll kiss and make up, that's a very peaceful sign. "), and more than enough slightly inappropriate,
not really subtle innuendos, made by Ted Hamilton, the Pirate King, otherwise known as the old guy with the tight pants and the bedazzled....well....his man region had jewels all over it. I'm not kidding....it was like a train wreck. So awful but you can't stop looking. See what I mean?The movie was nominated for a good number of awards...which thanks to Wikipedia and IMDB, I've listed below:
AFI Awards
Nominated: Best Achievement in Costume Design (Aphrodite Kondos)
Nominated: Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Garry McDonald)
Golden Raspberry Awards
Won: Worst Musical Score
Won: Worst Director (Ken Annakin)
Won: Worst "Original" Song (Pumpin' and Blowin')
Nominated: Worst Picture
Nominated: Worst Screenplay
Nominated: Worst Actor (Christopher Atkins)
Nominated: Worst Actress (Kristy McNichol)
Nominated: Worst Supporting Actor (Ted Hamilton)
Nominated: Worst "Original" Song (Happy Endings)
All in all, if you love mullets, pirates, the 80's, or just poorly written, directed, produced and even more poorly acted films, this is the movie for you!!!
Here is a clip for your enjoyment and convenience:
You can find everything you'd like to know about the pirate movie (including the full script) at
http://www.geocities.com/smac75/index.html
Enjoy!
-Kristy
4 comments:
This movie saved my life. I was strongly thinking about becoming a pirate king with bejeweled pantaloons, but watching this movie turned me around for the better.
It might be the worst, most inappropriate, horribly acted movie I've seen in years. I'm glad I could share that experience with you and Brian!
It wasn't the actor's fault, it was the material they had to work with. This film single handedly destroyed Kristy McNichol's future in film and exposed her lack of wisdom in taking such a role. I'm sure she is embarrassed by this role in mid-age.
Um, so you're married now...so you should probably blog about that...some time...maybe...
The jeweled distraction was called a codpiece in the Rennaissance- a fashion period I thought they were confined to. Since this movie was all about poor taste, I can see why they brought it back.
We watched it so many times on cable and probably even taped it- that's AUDIO tape, before we had a VCR. We knew there was more meaning to what they were saying sometimes that went over our heads, but we didn't care. we were too busy laughing out heads off.
I chalk it up to one of those guilty pleasure things, like eating ice cream out of the carton, Rocky Horror Picture Show, and hanging around the house in your underwear.
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