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Stylish but barely mediocre overall

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Good concept, poorly executed.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Rented this over and over as a kid and had to buy it. Love the cheesy story of a romantic feminist!

What a fantastic movie with Christopher Atkins and Maggie Kirkpatrick all filmed in Australia, with great songs and great scenery of parts of Australia, this needs to come out on Bluray and in 5.1 audio so that the quality is better.... Let's hope we see it soon on blue-ray 10 out of 10 ....... It's a classic from the 80's...and will never grow to old to watch I've Seen this movie more than a dozen times and bought the double LP when it came out..... The songs will live on and on My first love...is great And the backdrop of the twelve apostle in Victoria And the Werribee mansion looks amazing.... The costumes are fantastic and to see Maggie Kirkpatrick in another role that isn't the freak from prisoner cell block H is a great laugh....

First and foremost, yes. This is not my taste in movies, keeping that in mind however my complaints that I'll list would be said whether it was my taste or not. I saw this movie today because my brother hailed it as one of the worst, period. In my opinion despite the fact I think it's bad it's not worst movie ever made material.The plot is that Maybelle is at a Pirate-themed... thing it's never really explained and she meets a man who is never given a name and yet he begins to fall in love with her and when he invites her to do some kind of scuba diving but other girls go instead and leaves Maybelle to go in her own boat to find them but is swept ashore.In her dream a pirate ship run by the Pirate King does whatever Pirates do and a man named Fredrick decides to leave. Meanwhile Maybelle is the youngest of her family, fathered by a Major General and one thing leads to another and it's contrived love at first sight for Maybelle and Fredrick... They don't even exchange a line of dialogue. Then the pirates arrive... fort some reason and they find out that Maybelle's father is a major General. Then we find out that the pirates stole the family fortune and it's up to Maybelle and Fredrick to find out where it is by... Going aboard the Pirate King's ship and get him to flex his back.Then after they find it and the pirates somehow know they've stolen it and go back and fight them for it, twice. The first time we find out that Fredrick was born on a leap year and therefore only 5 years old and thus indebted to the pirate King. Then they come back to fight again. Then there's the ending... Maybelle then uses the power of her dream to give her a happy ending out of complete nowhere and then she wakes up on shore to get married to Fredrick/that guy at the beginning and they barely know each other.Okay I get that there are real life character parallels to Maybelle's real life and her dream, the problem is that we are never given enough time to know any of the characters in the real world. If I were to compare it to The Wizard Of Oz movie, in that one we are given time to know the characters and we know why in Oz Dorothy chooses them to be the real life parallels. In this movie you can just as easily put Paul Hogan as The Pirate King and it would make just about as much sense.Then there are the songs. It's not that I didn't like any of them... although that certainly doesn't help, but how many times they burst out into song is insane. Things that should take up just a few seconds of dialogue take up almost 5 minutes of song time. Not to mention that most of them look like cheap music videos from the 70's.Then there are the jokes... If you can call them that. Seriously, the jokes are horrible. There's a Star Wars reference and when the Pirate King asks Fredrick how he used the Force and turned his sword into a lightsaber his response was that he "saw it in a movie once"... There wasn't any other delivery just "I saw it in a movie once." I know that was meant to be funny but it isn't.This movie in my opinion is awful. I would only recommend it to a combination of Gilbert and Sullivan fans and people who go nostalgic over anything from the 80's (preferably both). However this movie is really dated and the jokes don't really work and there are too many songs. If you are one of the people who I mentioned might like this movie then I would suggest to check it out. If you aren't a Gilbert and Sullivan fan nor someone who goes nostalgic over anything 80's then you would most certainly not like this movie.

If you thought "Xanadou" and "Can't Stop the Music!" had gay sensibilities or camp moments then watch this pathetic rip-off of Gilbert and Sullivan's most revived operetta where the film is supposed to be oh-so-straight but ends up as oh-so-stupid and oh-so-offensive. Moments of the original score are tossed together with a new fangled pop score so bad that all those great memories of the early 80's and the fun bad trends that came out of them are all washed away. O.K., so the idea of pairing Christopher Atkins and Kristy McNichol seemed like a good idea at the time. He was the newest hearth-throb after "The Blue Lagoon" and she was oh-so-cute as Buddy on "Family", the tomboy everybody liked. What they forgot to give them was a script, here so obviously slap-dash that the results are as jaw-dropping as the audience members of "Springtime For Hitler" in "The Producers". (Please don't throw your playbills at me for saying so!).It is obvious to me that this was tossed together so fast not only because of the success of "The Pirates of Penzance" on Broadway but in expectation of the movie version of that show yet to be released. Like previous similarities between similar plotted movies released within months of each other (Think "Black Sunday" and "Two Minute Warning"), it's almost like sabotage. While "The Pirates of Penzance" came and went very quickly when it was released early in 1983, this film had a release the previous summer and obviously soured anybody interested in seeing a mostly faithful movie version of a hundred year old British operetta.McNichol is Mabel, a geeky teen-aged girl hanging around the beach who somehow is obsessed with pirate movies and after being left behind after mean girls prevent her from boarding tour guide Atkins' boat, she ends up dreaming she's the heroine of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta. He, of course, is the dashing hero, raised by pirates, yet determined to make his own way and find true love with the opposite sex. But the pirate king (Ted Hamilton) isn't willing to let him go and threatens to stand in the way of his heterosexual happiness. A wasted Maggie Kirkpatrick takes the normally scene-stealing role of nurse Ruth and turns it into almost a bit part,lacking the zest of the many veteran comics who played the role on Broadway and Angela Lansbury who showed screen audiences her musical talents in one of the rare times she actually got to use her own singing voice in the movies.The worst Major General ever, Bill Kerr comes on like gang-busters with absolutely no subtly or humor like George Rose was doing on stage and later in the authentic film version. Sprinkled throughout this are spoofs of pop-culture characters popular at the time, such as Inspector Clouseau and Indiana Jones, proving what one critic said about it being "the rip-off movie". While the original operetta at times can be outright silly and sometimes eye-rolling, this version made me roll my eyes so much I was afraid of being able to see out of the back of my head or through my ears.Then, there's the truncated score, an assassination of sorts where only a handful of the original score is used (or misused) and the new songs (with the possible exception of the song in the opening film-within-a-film) are dumber than any of the slobs of the slobs-vs.-the-snobs comedies popular at the time. "Happy Ending" is a bit of a catchy tune, but it's a horribly weak way to wrap up the plot, and McNichols' being forced to pair couples up had me sneering not cheering. "Pumpin And Blowin'" gets my vote for one of the top five worst movie songs ever written, and perhaps in the top ten of all songs ever written. It makes the theme from the original "The Blob" seem like "As Time Goes By" in comparison.