Review – The Pirate Movie

This does for Gilbert and Sullivan what Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band did for The Beatles. And given that The Pirates of Penzance was a goofy farce to begin with, 80s-izing it brings the show to the very brink of intolerability. Kristy McNicholl and Christopher Atkins star as the beautiful-as-they-are-stupid, star-crossed young lovers caught between the British establishment and a band of slapstick pirates. Part of the excuse for the dreadfulness of this picture might be provided by the studio’s need to rush it through production in order to “scoop” a competitor’s more-true-to-the-original release. Regardless of excuse, however, the result is so terrible that it actually manages to become entertaining in a comedic car wreck sort of way. See if desperate