The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists: Press reviews

'Another Aardman triumph.'

'a curiosity cabinet of visual pleasures but so breezy and lightly funny that you may not realize at first how good it is'

'effortlessly and unassumingly funny – and terrifically smart.'

'comic genius'

'it will dazzle the eye, and plaster a smile on your face.'

'a return to form'

'With its mix of ingenious chase sequences, hilarious fights and jokes, Pirates! is a real gem and not to be missed.'

'Aardman's spark is back with a vengeance in this deliriously entertaining tale... a brilliant mish-mash of styles and genres, crammed with ideas and intelligence and carried off with a sense of rebellious fun and breathtaking invention not seen since, well, ‘The Wrong Trousers'. Glorious.'

'a strange beast with a less than convincing plot and a screenplay that hasn't nearly enough good jokes'

'A lack of focus leaves Pirates! short of iconic moments that linger in the memory'

'Chuckles and smiles rather than plank-walking belly laughs are the order of the day'

'Though we'd love to see how Aardman handle Defoe's followup, An Adventure With Communists, this amiable but overstretched diversion is unlikely to spawn a Caribbean franchise.'

'After 30 minutes you start to hanker for Wallace and Gromit.'