Synopsis
For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await.
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Cast
- Graham ChapmanCaptain Yellowbeard
- Martin HewittDan
- Eric IdleCommander Clement
- Peter CookLord Percy Lambourn
- Michael HordernDr. Gilpin
- Peter BoyleMoon
- Madeline KahnBetty
- Marty FeldmanGilbert
- John CleeseHarvey 'Blind' Pew
- Cheech MarinEl Segundo
Recommandations
- 70
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
The best way to approach it is not as a comedy but as a straight pirate movie with exceedingly odd twists. Certainly it makes better use of its sterling actors than The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978), also co-written by and co-starring Cook, made of its sultans-of-comedy cast. [30 Jun 2006, p.R25] - 50
The New York Times
What Yellowbeard establishes is that for even the funniest of performers, a good script may be as essential as pitching is to baseball. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
There are about as many laughs in the film's 101 minutes as in a three-minute sketch by the Monty Python troupe, from which much of the cast hails. - 38
Chicago Sun-Times
There's a funny line or two, a fetching performance by Stacey Nelkin as a young wench, some nonsense about a buried treasure, and then Yellowbeard is soon over and soon forgotten. - 38
The Associated Press
Yellowbeard is a puzzlement. How could so many comedic talents produce such a mirthless movie? [27 Jun 1983] - 38
Miami Herald
With director Mel Damski making his debut at the helm of a feature, Yellowbeard is a film adrift. [27 Jun 1983, p.C6] - 30
Time Out
The script, for which Chapman and Cook must bear some responsibility, is a three-minute Python skit bloated out to feature length, involving buried treasure, revenge, and machinations close to the throne. Depressing stuff. - 30
The Guardian
Do you want to laugh already? Then laugh now, before you see this dispiritingly unfunny pirate movie. Later, it's difficult. Very brief moments only, I'm afraid. [25 Sep 1983, p.19]
