Voxitype
Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
Lidia Draper
Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
Cristal
The movie really just wants to entertain people.
Matthew_Capitano
Stupid teen flick with lame references to many other films - those references masquerading as "jokes".A frumpy Kristy McNichol plays a frumpy chick named 'Mabel' who gets conked on the head and subsequently dreams about living in the swashbuckler days surrounded by bisexual pirates and a handsome young man called 'Frederic' (Chris Atkins). As usual, Kristy tries to bluff her way through a film as if she can act, this time asking the audience to believe that she's actually 'hot' and a 'rrrreally gooood singer'.... pffft.The only truthful thing that can be said about the performances of the leads in this movie is that Atkins is better.... and prettier.
aurbano13
Peach, so glad there is someone else out there. My sister and I have loved this movie since 87 as well. After seeing it on t.v., my mother spent long pre-internet hours and a good amount of cash locating a copy on VHS for us because we had to have it. We knew all the songs by heart and even danced and acted them out. The movie is full of sexual innuendo that went over our heads and made Mom giggle. When I watch it now it is funny, silly and a wonderful indulgence. If you have daughters, let them check this one out. Yay for happy endings! And yay for a heroine who is independent, smart, awkward, honest and feisty! We can have it both ways.
msjamierae
Honestly, it's been my experience that unless you were able to first view this movie as a child (6 or so)and fell in love with it then, there's a good chance your opinion probably won't reflect the same enthusiasm. I still love this movie! But I've shown it to a couple of my friends and they weren't so thrilled, but then again it's one of those "let it go" movies. You kinda just have to open your mind a bit, realize it's Supposed to be goofy like that! But there are those people out there that can't get over themselves and admit they actually did kinda like it.Regardless, I still stand firm on my rating. It is goofy and silly, and it makes me feel like a kiddy little 6 year old in my fantasy world! And the many hidden sexual innuendos (which I came to understand eventually)keep me in my adult shoes.
MARIO GAUCI
Rated a BOMB by Leonard Maltin, this is not really quite bad if certainly misguided – what was veteran British director Annakin thinking?: an old-fashioned pirate adventure, inspired by Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta "The Pirates Of Penzance" (contemporaneously receiving the big-screen treatment), set to horrid electronic music. Yet, the thing is fitfully amusing in spots (often campily so)...Christopher Atkins is bland as the unwilling buccaneer hero, but tomboyish leading lady Kristy McNichol is cute (she even naively says "Ole'" instead of "Touche'" during the swordfights!). Ted Hamilton, then, is The Pirate King – whose matinée'-idol looks seem like a cross between Adam West and Randolph Scott! Scenes from Fox's classic swashbuckler THE BLACK SWAN (1942) with Tyrone Power actually play throughout the opening credits: it transpires to be a TV screening of that film – since the narrative here is given a modern-day framework, with the adventure within turning out to be a dream set off by the nerdy McNichols' visit to a pirate attraction! Apart from much romance and derring-do, we get a bumbling group of singing and dancing bobbies (cops) who constitute an obvious anachronism. Still, they're involved in one of the film's more inspired bits: during the climactic bout, they gang up on a isolated pirate – and one of them attempts to obscure the camera's viewpoint (recording the event, as it were)…which, of course, lampoons the usual expose' of police brutality!
