My sister took me out in my wheelchair to see "The Pirates!" yesterday. I enjoyed it more than I expected to, but I agree that it is non-Furry except for Polly the dodo's body-language and the non-speaking-except-by-signs Mr. Bobo, Charles Darwin's chimpanzee manservant. (You have to see the movie.) One of the reviews, I think in/on Wired, said that one viewing is enough for the plot/story which is simplistic, but the movie is worth seeing three or four times just to look for all the stuff in the backgrounds. The theater that I saw it at was pretty well filled, and the audience was laughing steadily. The stop-motion animation is superb; it makes Aardman Animations' earlier Wallace & Grommit films look clunky.
My sister took me out in my wheelchair to see "The Pirates!" yesterday. I enjoyed it more than I expected to, but I agree that it is non-Furry except for Polly the dodo's body-language and the non-speaking-except-by-signs Mr. Bobo, Charles Darwin's chimpanzee manservant. (You have to see the movie.) One of the reviews, I think in/on Wired, said that one viewing is enough for the plot/story which is simplistic, but the movie is worth seeing three or four times just to look for all the stuff in the backgrounds. The theater that I saw it at was pretty well filled, and the audience was laughing steadily. The stop-motion animation is superb; it makes Aardman Animations' earlier Wallace & Grommit films look clunky.
Fred Patten