The Pirate Movie (1982)

Really Surprised!

Instant Favorite.

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

What a fantastic movie with Christopher Atkins and Maggie Kirkpatrick all filmed in Australia, with great songs and great scenery of parts of Australia, this needs to come out on Bluray and in 5.1 audio so that the quality is better.... Let's hope we see it soon on blue-ray 10 out of 10 ....... It's a classic from the 80's...and will never grow to old to watch I've Seen this movie more than a dozen times and bought the double LP when it came out..... The songs will live on and on My first love...is great And the backdrop of the twelve apostle in Victoria And the Werribee mansion looks amazing.... The costumes are fantastic and to see Maggie Kirkpatrick in another role that isn't the freak from prisoner cell block H is a great laugh....

A bit of Australian Comedy from back in 1980's, featuring some of the most nicest places in Australia including Melbourne, Werribee Mansion, Polly Woodside, Palm Beach, Sydney where Home and Away is filmed. I haven't watched the stage show but these characters are pretty Funny Gary McDonald with his police inspector impression, the sissy police officers, the major General etc.. It is a quirky film and things don't make sense look in the scene where Mabel and Fredrick are kissing at the beach landing there is a Rock with graffiti on it. Much of the film is a Dream so allot of the things you see don't make sense but you just take the film not seriously and you will enjoy it. The Songs are catchy and from watching the film it has inspired me to visit Werribee Mansion in Victoria and Polly Woodside in Melbourne City. A Classic Movie leave reality at the door and just take in some great 1980's humour.

I understand that the film was longer than 20 minutes, but after that point I literally ran out of the room.My Wife would often rave about this movie. Like so many other comments that I've seen from Pirate Movie fans, it was a fondly recalled part of her childhood (which seems a little disturbing). She mentioned that it was a film that her entire family enjoyed in its day. So after a 25 year sabbatical from the film, she decided to order it on NetFlix.Knowing nothing of the movie, I sat to watch it with her. Honestly, I was not expecting much from a film creatively entitled "The Pirate Movie". I assumed it would be a rather cheesy comedy, and that's as far as I got, before my wife pressed play. The first 15 minutes was as much as I expected. This was a movie for girls in their early adolescence.I have to admit, after realizing that this was a girls fantasy movie, I am no longer curious about what woman want or dream about. I am happy to be left outside and ignorant of such things.When the protagonist started her dream sequence, I realized that this was the beginning of the end for me. I started to notice a feeble nausea in my stomach which irrupted into a volcano of bile. As soon as the Pirates started to dance on the deck of the ship, blood shot from my nose and ears and my eyes itched as though they were begging to be ripped from my head. I left the room in quiet agony - begging the gods of celluloid to end my misery on this retched earth. As I lay on the floor of my garage in the fetal position, my wife came in to see if I required medical attention. Apparently, she could only take about 40 minutes before she turned off the movie."I don't understand it", she said to me. "Everybody in my family loved the movie." "Okay, you are one of three sisters - born of a mother who is addicted to cheap romance novels." "But my dad loved it too. He'd even sing the songs around the house." "Your dad also came out of the closet in the early nineties and divorced your mom." "Oh, yeah." I gave this film a "1" because IMDb's rating system would not allow for negative integers. My mind cannot undo what this film has done to me. At this point, though - I must be fair. Had I known more going in, I may have been more prepared. I've seen "Rocky Horror" and a couple of John Waters movies, but I was always prepared going in. The events leading to my viewing of this film was just completely unfair. I was completely blindsided.Gentlemen, let this be your warning. Ladies, enjoy this sensual fantasy film, and warn any gathering gentlemen at your discretion. Children - no.

All right, so it's no "Godfather." It's not even as good as, say, "South Pacific." But director Ken Annakin's "The Pirate Movie," something of a spoof of "The Pirates of Pennzance," is hilarious. Featuring a modernized story (still set in the good old days of the 1800s, though), a comical cast, and a combination of both updated songs from the original opera and entirely new and somewhat engaging ones, it unfolds in spectacular slapstick, parody, and general hilarity. And, yes, so "First Love" is a song that makes you want to put a bullet in the TV. What does it matter with a film so campy-wonderful? If you're looking for a serious movie with a socially redemptive message, you've definitely come to the wrong place. But I don't believe you'd really come here for that anyway. So enjoy your pirates!