THE PIRATES! AN ADVENTURE WITH SCIENTISTS – The OFFICIAL UK trailer

"Sweet Neptune's Briny Pants" Hugh Grant is the Pirate Captain! © Aardman Animations/Sony Pictures Animation

In The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, Hugh Grant stars in his first animated role as the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to the much coveted Pirate Of The Year Award. It’s a quest that takes our heroes from the shores of exotic Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London. Along the way they do battle with the pirate-hating Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton) and team up with a young Charles Darwin (David Tennant), but never lose sight of what a pirate loves best: adventure!

Directed by:

Peter Lord

Screenplay by:

Gideon Defoe

Based on his book ‘Pirates: in an Adventure with Scientists’

Cast:

Hugh Grant, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton, Martin Freeman, Jeremy Piven

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