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Take the worst aspects of Xanadu & The Apple and add a splash of Pirates and you've got The Pirate Movie.

I think the only thing that kept my head from imploding was due to how extremely cute Kristy McNichol is throughout most of this entire movie. She always shows a ton of leg.

The movie also stars Christopher Atkins and Ted Hamilton (who also served as executive producer so most if not all of the blame for this cinematic atrocity can be lobbed his direction.)

The songs are a very weird mix between your typical swashbuckling anthems you would expect to hear in a pirate movie, very bad early 80's pop and love ballads that would have been at home being performed by ELO for the Xanadu soundtrack.

The threadbare plot is that Kristy is a fan of some pirate show, she hits her head and the rest of the movie is her dreaming that she's actually a part of this pirate show, though it's all FOR REAL THIS TIME!  She falls in love with a very light in the loafers acting Christopher Atkins who is a pirate who decides he doesn't want to be one anymore and blah blah blah blah..........

Absolutely atrocious.  Why Anchor Bay released this one for the unsuspecting masses to be subjected to is beyond me.

Watch at your own risk.

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I loved this movie when it came on HBO around 1983. Lots of fun and the music.

"Torencha ra torencha ra" To be honest I don't know what they were saying, but I liked it a lot.

Torgo gets good Karma for watching THE PIRATE MOVIE (1982).

Ive noticed that Anchor Bay puts out a good chunk of the b movies that i watch.

I may be shot for this, but I have a soft spot for this film. I even have the songs on my ipod. :teddyr:

From what I can gather on the Internet, this and The Pirates of Penzance film with Kevin Kline from around the same time (some people even get them confused) have a small but loyal cult following. So a DVD release make some sense just like releasing Night of the Comet. These films got most of their audience/following from 80s TV repeats, betwen the adults of the time and the kids who have fond memories from seeing it so often on TV, there's a built in niche audience.

Haha! A TRUE fan! :bouncegiggle:

I, too, still kinda like this movie, although it most certainly is horrible. I always wondered why, if the movie is really all Mabel's dream, she didn't dream she could dance better than she does  :twirl:. I know I would.

As for The Pirates of Penzance, I really enjoyed the performances, and that was where Linda Ronstadt really first impressed me with her vocal versatility. I've never been much of a Kevin Kline fan (maybe I'm jealous that he nabbed Phoebe Cates  :hatred:), but I have to admit he's good at what he does.

Yeah, I realize that there's some kind of a niche audience for practically anything, but The Pirate Movie just seemed to be made for one purpose only:

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I was at WalMart and spotted NIGHT OF THE COMET on sale for song.  My wife got one look at the cover and rolled her eyes.  I spent the next 45 minutes trying to explain to her the sophisticated process by which this movie occupies as fond a spot in my heart as does THREADS(!)  Of course, it was not like she was actually going to watch it me or anything.

I did however neglect to mention my teenage crush on Kelli Maroney.  I sensed that it wouldn't really improve the odds of an 'our movie time' showing.


PIRATE MOVIE is from that same exact era.  While I'm not as big a fan of it as NOTC, it strikes a sentimental chord for me as well.

I also have a soft spot for this film.  The pumping/blowing scene is just too much!

The way they combined the animation/ live action stuff in that sequence gave me really bad Xanadu flashbacks for some reason.

Keep in mind that I don't ever criticize anyone for liking a film, this is just my personal opinion of why I hated this movie.

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