The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything - A Veggietales Movie (2008)
Another movie in the VeggieTales franchise, this time that focuses on a pirate adventure.
Genre:
Animated
MPAA Rating:
Starring:
Phil Vischer, Mike Nawrocki, Cam Clarke
Director:
Mike Nawrocki
Running Time:
1:25
"The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything — A VeggieTales Movie," the umpteenth entry in the 15-year-old animated franchise and the first to forsake the Bible for Robert Louis Stevenson, is clever enough to keep adults entertained, even if the story is something of an antique. Dynastic intrigue. Adventure at sea. Imperiled maidens. Pirates who say "Arrrrrr." Plus three 21st-century busboys from the pirate-themed Pieces of Ate dinner theater who are transported to the 17th century to face real danger and be real heroes.
Robert the Terrible is the uncle of the rather anemic Eloise and Alexander. Robert wants his brother's crown and to achieve this has taken his nephew hostage. Eloise uses the Helpseeker (think prayer) to find help. The magical device finds our three heroes at the Pieces of Ate: Longtime fans know that the veggies play different roles in each story; this time it's Mr. Lunt, a gourd, who portrays Sedgewick, Larry the Cucumber who plays Elliot and Pa Grape who plays George (voices of director Mike Nawrocki and writer Phil Vischer). The Helpseeker then takes them, via magical rowboat, to the 1600s.
The moral of the story is about the meaning of courage. Does it mean swashbuckling your way around a stage? Or does it mean doing the right thing when the right thing scares you out of your wits? It's a useful lesson, for kids or adults, the latter of whom will probably be more amused by the movie's Mel Brooksian conjunction of anachronistic references and lapses into the modern. ("You guys got TiVo?" Sedgewick asks upon meeting Eloise.)
Of course, the movie poses one problem: How are you going to get kids to eat their greens when the greens are bouncing around so adorably? The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything don't, in fact, do much. But at least they won't raise your cholesterol.
– John Anderson (Jan. 11, 2008)
Contains nothing offensive.
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