'The Pirates! Band Of Misfits' UK Trailer #2

Can you resist the grinning appeal of a new claymation animated film from Aardman Animation? I'm not certain that I can, if the first trailer for The Pirates! Band of Misfits is any indication. The film adapts Gideon Defoe's book The Pirates! In an Adventure With Scientists — a loopy tale of high-seas misadventure and scientfic discovery — with a vocal cast that includesHugh Grant, Martin Freeman, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton, Jeremy Piven, Salma Hayek, Brian Blessed, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen.

Here's a new UK trailer for the film, which bears the original subtitle 'In an Adventure With Scientists,' and pushes the overall story structure more than the last US trailer, but keeps the levels of charm and appeal as high as the crow's nest.

Thanks to Empire for the trailer.

I'll admit that I liked the first US trailer just a bit more, but there are still many good moments here, especially in the second half of the trailer as an animated Charles Darwin make his appearance and starts to establish a presence.

The Pirates! Band of Misfits will hit the US on March 30, 2012.

Hugh Grant, starring in his first animated role, is the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas.  With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to the much coveted Pirate Of The Year Award.  It's a quest that takes our heroes from the shores of exotic Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London.  Along the way they battle a diabolical queen (Imelda Staunton) and team up with a haplessly smitten young scientist (David Tennant), but never lose sight of what a pirate loves best: adventure!