User reviews

The trend with animated films since Pixar has been to produced short films with the same characters – either for a DVD release, to feature in cinemas with other films from the studio or in many cases, both. For many films this is a very welcome thing but not always and I must admit that for Pirates, as much as I liked the film, I didn't love it to the point where I was falling over myself for more. So having this short film on the DVD didn't do much for me other than make me curious.

The film is in the style of a late night chat show where the Pirate Captain presents various pirate-related features and adverts; from cooking, beard-maintenance, the importance of treasure maps and other such topics are all covered here. The end result is an amusing short film but not one that really needed to be made other than the need for a short film to go with the film. This shows since it feels like a film in search of an idea rather than the other way around; the concept is decent enough but fragmented and as a result quite sporadic in terms of laughs. The voice cast has some good names in there as the film did but nobody is really used too well. Perhaps it didn't help that I wasn't massively in love with the main film, but to be this short film just felt like it needed to be made, not that it was really crying out to be.

Amusing if you liked the film, but otherwise this is just a so-so short film despite the occasional decent laugh.

I must say i have never seen the "full movie" but this short was and is really good i saw it back in circa 2014 when was a 8/9 year old boy and i was in love with this short i used to Watch it quite often with my grandma aswell who also liked it. This short is really well made beautiful looking and actually kind of funny. Music is really good i remember the last song was soooo catchy i loved that song seriously! This is definetly a nostalgic flick for me one that will always be in my heart. The DVD it came on also includes a trailer,making of and i believe other things aswell so it is worth buying on DVD despite the short being 18 minutes long. However seems like a user named "horst in translation" didnt like this film and that i respect but still he should understand that some people grew up with this and i did, and as a respectful response to him i have to say Thumbs up for this nostalgic flick.