Monday 16 January 2012

Pirates v Lepers

Pirates in trouble! Lepra Health in Action has thrown a wobbler over a film trailer for Aardman Animations' The Pirates! Band of Misfits (title link). The original title The Pirates! In An Adventure with Scientists seems to have been abandoned by Sony Pictures. Yanks think pirates are fun, scientists boring, possibly even unAmerican if they provide statistics that demonstrate global warming. Anyway, back to the plot. In the trailer, the pirates are seen invading a "leper boat" and an arm drops off one of the lepers (CLICK). This isn't gentle British Aardman humour, but crass Yankee "humour" aimed at the US market. Blame Sony Pictures, not Aardman. It doesn't augur well for the movie.

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