The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012) is an Aardman family animation you can watch online on iFILM. The Pirate Captain wants one thing: the Pirate of the Year award. The catch is that he and his crew are spectacularly bad at actual plundering.

Hunting for a bigger haul, the captain and his ragtag misfits sail into Victorian London, where they run into a young Charles Darwin and his talking chimpanzee, Mr. Bobo. Darwin dangles the promise of fame through science, but a pirate-hating Queen Victoria stands squarely in the way. The voice cast includes Hugh Grant, Martin Freeman, Imelda Staunton, David Tennant and Salma Hayek.

The film is built in Aardman's trademark stop-motion clay, from the same studio behind Wallace and Gromit. Expect handmade sets, absurd British humour and dozens of background gags slipped in for grown-ups. Stream The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012) online on iFILM.