Wonderful is The Pirate Movie

I fell in love with this movie the first time I saw it. Starts off with a nerdy young girl being mistreated by the more popular and beautiful girls she wishes to be like. She meets Christopher Atkins character and he invites her on a sailing trip. Double crossed by the other girls, she is left behind and whilst trying to catch up, sails into a storm and is washed up unconscious and dreams they are all the characters out of the musical The Pirates of Penzance. Filmed in Australia and starring big names of the eighties Chrisopher Atkins, Kristy McNichol as the touble ridden young lovers and featuring Australian comedian the wonderful Gary McDonald as the hilarious Police Inspector (Taran-tarah, Taran-tarah).This movie has everything songs, dancing, humour, romance, fight scenes, it has it all!. I would watch this movie over and over again and have been searching for it for 10 years now to discover I can't get it. Hopefully all these reviews of so many fans will one day reach the ears of the people who can change this unhappy reality. Truly inspiring and an uplifting movie. The family will love it.

Why Isn't It On DVD Yet?

The Pirate Movie is without doubt one of my favorite movies too and I truly hope that it does get onto a DVD and if it does I hope it has wide-screen besides just the popular (I don't know why) edited full-screen. Some people like to say that this movie is so bad it's good but I disagree, I don't think it's bad at all, I think it's so good it's good! This is my favorite Kristy McNichol movie and I thought she was delightful as Mable and I liked Christopher Atkins as Fredric and also Ted Hamilton was an excellent Pirate King and to me the definitive Pirate King who I liked better then the other actors who have played the character in performances of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Pirates of Penzance. This movie is a cult classic and really should be on DVD and I wonder why it is taking so long, is there some kind of legal red tape holding it up? Anyway you would think that if the movie studio big wigs or whoever owns the rights to this movie read all of the reviews and saw how many people want it on DVD they would just do it!

Please release it on DVD!

The Pirate Movie has been one of my favorite movies since I was 5 years old. It ranks right up there with Grease. I had it on a video tape that was recorded from the tv and after years of watching it started to fall apart. A few years ago I looked it up in an ordering book from the video store where my aunt worked and got it on VHS. I was so excited to finally have a cover for the tape. Needless to say, after years of play and getting stuck in my vcr I need a replacement! It's time for it to be released on dvd!