So again, I'm getting to the review. This time of the children's film Pirates. It's a film from the creative team behind Aardman Studios, which teamed up with Sony Pictures Animation to create a 3D film. I've now decided after Avengers that I'd rather choose 2D alternatives to movies because even on TV there is no 3D and the 3D projection technique limits the picture quality of the film.
The basis of a good children's movie is a movie with a simple story and simple jokes that even young children can understand. Everything must be nicely drawn (animated), the colors must be bold and there must be a person or animal that the child can identify with because it is the funniest.
For this film, a bird is chosen for the child's identification of the character, first thought to be a fat parrot within the film, but after the origin is revealed, coincidentally by the originator of Darwin's evolutionary theory of origins, it is found to be the last specimen of the extinct Dronte mauriciensis, known in the Czech region as the Blboun nejapný. This "Dumbass" is the main character of the story because he is not only the pirate, but the catalyst of the story that changes the main character's decision.
The main character, the "Pirate Captain", is a pirate with a soul and a beard who rules his ship, his crew arguing over which is more unimportant, the sabre or the raubeni. Still, as the captain says, grub is the best grub. The pirate captain stands to finally win the pirate's greatest prize. He'll do everything he can to win his award.
Now, on to the other elements of the film. As I wrote from the beginning, Pirates is considered a children's film, and it is geared towards that with its jokes and story. It's very simple and so you can really take all the offspring on the film. Unfortunately, I was expecting more from the makers than just a children's film. Aardman is known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit, which is not for kids at all, then Shawn the Sheep (the predecessor to Musk), which also is for adults. Fortunately the film is for those older than Timmy the lamb, for those who can talk. For my age, I watched for the allusions to historical things, to Darwin's exploration, for the historical practices and inventions that were well inserted into the film from the 19th Century. It would have pleased me quite a bit if there had been more of a story for adults, and quirks in the story, but unfortunately that wasn't the case.
The animation of the plasticine puppets is very laborious, but unfortunately it had reached a point of perfection where I was already hesitant to wonder if the entire film was already computer generated, because I could no longer find any of the imperfections that characterize films that were created by laborious hand animation. It's a good thing that Aardman, who teamed up with Sony Pictures Animation, who provided elements that normally can't be created using conventional animation. But you can see the Americanization of the filmmakers as they have gone from English intelligent film to American simple animation and story. I would take very positive the adaptation of the visual component to the Czech cinema goers, the monkey tables, but then I didn't understand why they didn't also translate the two songs that were heard during the film, I would have loved to hear these songs in the Czech version, as it was also in Toy Story, because it is supposed to be a film for children and a film for children, including the sound component, when the animation studio took the trouble to translate the lyrics.
For me, this film simply lacked a humorous adult component, with underdeveloped children's elements that detracted from the film's appeal to a child audience.
Original release of this article May 13, 2012 – Kritiky.cz
