The Pirates Band Of Misfits (2012) - It's All About Dodo!

★★★☆☆

‘The Pirates! Band Of Misfits’ is a well made, entertaining piece of clay animation that is getting rare nowadays while computer animation is all the rage. The truth is however, I’d definitely not check out things like that myself if I didn’t have to watch it as part of my work. There isn’t anything quite interesting until Charles Darwin pops up in the middle, right, the British naturalist who came up with the theory of evolution that somehow explains how we’ve got here so far, if you believe so of course. Don’t get it wrong. This is not a film to mess up with the ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean’ series. It’s all about Dodo, an extinct bird that’s to reflect the good and ugly side of human nature.

‘The Pirates’ makes fun of things in the Victorian era, such as Charles Darwin who looks like a chimpanzee only looking forward to getting laid, and Queen Victoria herself who turns out to be a pirate-hater. She’s every inch a bitch to be honest, to want to catch Dodo for her crazy appetite (you know what I mean if you see it). Here the Pirate Captain (voiced by Hugh Grant) is on the right side to protect it though he betrays it and his men in the first place in exchange for so called fame and glory as a pirate. Eventually he learns a lesson: it’s not about what you’re called. It’s all about who you are and what you do.

Dodo became extinct due to our selfishness, ignorance and disrespect for nature. Yet we seem so blind and are pushing it harder and harder even after getting punished by nature itself over and again. When a man-made property is destroyed, we call it vandalism. But when we destroy nature, we call it progress. How ridiculous indeed! Like it or not, men on Earth will be extinct one way or another someday, like all the other animals that used to walk on Earth but are now gone all because of us.