YMMV / The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists

• Adaptation Displacement: One of the possible reasons the film was re-titled for American markets.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: Do the other pirates really not know that Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate is a woman in drag? Or are they just humoring her by pretending to be ignorant?
• Award Snub: Losing the Oscar to Brave (though Brave is no slouch).
• Critical Dissonance: Critics were fairly positive, with an 86% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Average cinemagoers had a bit more of a mixed opinion.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • The leper- ahem.. "plague" ship being raided, with one victim losing an arm.
  • Cutlass Liz randomly stabbing people. In a kid's film. What should be horrifying suddenly becomes hilarious.
• Demographically Inappropriate Humour: This quick exchange between the Pirate Captain and an old friend:
  Scarlett: Pirate Captain. Goodness me! I haven't seen you since that business in Madagascar!
  Pirate Captain: Yes, I could've sworn they were girls.
• Designated Villain: Darwin in the first half of the film. Sure, he tried to steal Polly... after the pirates attacked his ship, threatened him with decapitation and tried to murder him for the hell of it.
• Ending Fatigue: According to the DVD commentary, the film risked this trope during production, since there were so many tiny loose ends to tie up. The Aardman team was anxious to avoid the trope, however, and managed instead to tie up all those loose ends in a Creative Closing Credits sequence.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • The Albino Pirate has a lot of fans.
  • Darwin has also become popular with the ladies, for obvious reasons.
  • Mr. Bobo, anyone?
• Estrogen Brigade: The Pirate Captain, the Pirate with a Scarf and Darwin all have a female following, probably helped by their voice actors: Hugh Grant, Martin Freeman and David Tennant.
• Fan Nickname: "Peanut Head" for Darwin, courtesy of the fans at DeviantArt.
• Genius Bonus:
  • Darwin is cataloging a new species of barnacle when he first appears. Before Origin of Species, Darwin spent much of his career systematizing the taxonomy of barnacles, and was considered one of the world's top experts on such crustaceans.
  • "Cutlass Liz" was a real-fake pirate long before this movie. That is, there were "accounts" of a female pirate supposedly named "Cutlass Liz", filled with glaring historical inaccuracies and contradicting years and just far-fetched scenarios. Long story short, "Cutlass Liz" was exactly the kind of over-the-top tall-tale kind of pirate that this movie is parodying. And this movie's Cutlass Liz seems a perfectly fitting depiction of the larger-than-life/not-very-historical figure.
• Memetic Molester: Black Bellamy has become this, for some reason.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "Well, yes, but actually no." ^explanation  A mishearing of "Good guess, but actually no" from the short So You Want to Be a Pirate! Very applicable in any scenario involving By "No", I Mean "Yes".
  • Mr. Bobo playing a rimshot.^note This gets posted a lot on sites like Reddit or Imgur, often as a Lame Pun Reaction.
  • Incel Charles Darwin. ^Explanation Charles Darwin spends most of the movie hopelessly crushing on Queen Victoria, and tries to steal Polly to win the "Scientist of the Year" award hoping that it will get him a girlfriend. The movie portraying Charles Darwin of all historical figures like that has spawned many jokes.
• One-Scene Wonder:
  • BRIAN BLESSED!!!!! as the Pirate King.
  • Scarlett Morgan, the still-live pirate hanging at Execution Dock.
• Play-Along Meme: Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate is very obviously a woman disguised as a man, but none of the other characters seem to pick up on this fact. Because of this, many people discussing the movie will jokingly pretend that they don't see through her disguise either.
• So Okay, It's Average: Seems to be a common opinion among fans. Critics were more positive.
• Spiritual Successor: To Flushed Away. Or rather, "the movie that Flushed Away was supposed to be." See Executive Meddling.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
  • The censoring of the Leper scene to a “plague boat” caused this.
  • The news that Russell Tovey (the Albino Pirate) was being overdubbed with Anton Yelchin for the American release has been getting this reaction.
  • In fact, anything to do with the American version.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: It gets pretty dark and depressing at times and there are a few mild profanities throughout. There are jokes that not-so-subtly reference sex, voyeurism, and bestiality. Also, the regular mention of 'running people through', plus people getting stabbed onscreen.
• The Woobie:
  • Charles Darwin. Dear god, Charles Darwin. He's also a Jerkass Woobie in the beginning of the story and up until his betrayal by Queen Victoria.
  • The Pirate Captain can count for regular Woobie or Jerkass Woobie.

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