HELL YEAH, Aardman is back to doing stop motion animation. can't wait for this one but if only i could say the same for there other film "arthur christmas" which use's CGI Animaion. That's not what Aardman does
i like ALL Aardman movies (even though there is only 3, i am glad it's a stop motion company and i am also okay thast Flushed Away was CGI... Aardman i see as a british word for stop-motion but i still like aardman).
I heard Peter Lord interviewed on March 17th claiming that the leper part was excised from the movie due to concerns over offending lepers. If any lepers out there are upset, please raise your arms. Well, apparently no-one is upset... Frankly I laughed my arse off when I heard lepers were going to be in the film...
Don't what all the fuss is about the title change. There is nothing in this trailer that says "scientists" at all and in fact Misfits nails it completely.
I think Conan Doyle came to the same conclusion because although in "The Sign Of Four", Watson falls in love and ends up marrying Miss Morsten, Doyle then had to keep sending his wife away to justify him being temporarily resident in the Baker St. flat in order to participate in Holmes's adventures. Also, although it's not stated explicitly, Watson clearly becomes a widower in the years between Holmes's 'death' at the Reichenbach Falls and his reappearance in "The Empty House". Problem solved.
Funny, there's another stop-motion animated movie about pirates coming out this year, in this case from South America. Search for "Selkirk, el verdadero Robinson Crusoe"
Both. In the UK it's called The Pirates! In an adventure with scientists and in the USA (for some reason the american's cannot handle the UK name) it's called The Pirates! Band of Misfits. Silly huh?
In the USA, "The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists" is called, "The Pirates! Band of Misfits". As the film critic Kim Newman said, the Americans would never create a programme like Dr. Who, in which an super-intelligent inventor was the original protagonist, but produce Star Trek instead, because they prefer a hero who resolves problems with a combination of his fists and emotional outbursts. They demand that this approach should be shown to be superior to reason, logic and self-control.
No doubt they felt American audiences would think two men sharing a flat must be gay, even in the Victorian era. The UK film title, "The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists" has a comedic contrast which is completely lost in the American version's use of "misfits". It also alludes to Britain's history of bucaneering and invention. The US movie title "Cowboys & Aliens" has no comedic or ironic contrast, but it does manage to encapsulate both American history and contemporary society.
It's the same reason the made Watson a female in the Sherlock remake. Now they can push the romantic angle, too. I don't know that they'd have green-lit the Star Trek adaption if Zoe Saldana's Uhura wouldn't have featured as a romantic love interest. Ah, well, let Hollywood have their methods. We still get this.
@sharpshinned. What about the other disability gags in this film? Or the whole premise that pirates are romantic, dashing characters? Pirates steal, terrorise and murder around the world too, yet it's only the leper gag which offends you? It's a kids film which uses simple humour in many ways (glass eyes falling out, pirates with wooden limbs referred to as furniture) please don't take offence where none is intended - be offended at real world stuff.
@Riotmaker888 I don't necessarily hate Pirates of the Caribbean, the first movie is rather amazing, but while the rest LOOK great, they're pointless sequels. It's a think Hollwood does a lot. It would have been a great stand alone, but if you were to watch the first one again, weigh it against the others, then it is really upsetting that they'd go on to make sequels with less intrigue, more action. It sort of took the novelty out of it for me, and for others.
I doubt it's that you're easy-to-please or anything, I just look into these things WAY TOO MUCH for my own good. I'd rather just enjoy a movie for a movie, and not based on if it's as good as it's predecessor. But I don't haha. Still, though, the first one is wonderful.
@POWERCARTOON Flushed Away was a failure? How? It got good reviews and did okay at the box office. And anyway they are using CGI in this and they've used it in Wallace and Gromit as well. They're animators not magicians. They can't make a clay or wooden boat put in real water and hope it'll float. It won't. They need CGI for the sea
It's funny, because I think more viewers - be they in America or not - enjoy a good bromance more than an angsty romance, unless they're in their teens, and even then I, at 18, and a great many friends, find it all very daunting having romance shoved in our faces...romance especially has no place in Baker Street. It just doesn't. And I genuinely don't know how 'Bad of Misfits' could possibly sound more exciting than 'And Adventure wit Scientists'. That logic is illogical.
this looks fucking awsome XD + why are so many offened by the leper joke at the end of the day its is just a joke and every joke ever thought up is gona be offensive or insensitive to some one. example... what do you call an epileptic with leprosy? self destruct! people just need to grow up and get over it if they dont like the humor dont watch it
I don't think the Americans get better titles than the Brits. The US tends to get the dumbed down version. The US distributors don't tend to think that highly of their audience.
Yeah...there's another case here, actually, of American TV/filmmakers needing that romantic angle, as in the Guy Richie/Downey Jr/Jude law adaption, Watson's relationship with his wife is far more prominent than it should be, and Sherlock and Irene's relationship has far too much of a romantic feel to it. Not the way it should be depicted. I got the impression the two would run away together, not have a battle of wits or try to outsmart one another. *Sigh* Hollywood...
