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Not to be confused with the later animated film ''WesternAnimation/PiratesInAnAdventureWithScientists''.
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* BadassGrandpa: Red is pushing 60, but he still deadly with his cutlass.


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* OffScreenMomentOfAwesome: The wreck and battle on Red's ship, The Black Princess. Overrun by Spanish Pirate Hunters, Red and The Frog somehow survived this onslaught and escaped, killing plenty of the attackers in the process. We only hear a few details of this event from other characters: The Spaniards, the pirates, and even Red himself.
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* AnachronismStew: Captain Red and Diddler are singing "We'll Go No More A-Roving" on the pirate island... about 100 years before the song was written.


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* ItsAllAboutMe: Or rather, all about gold. Red kills dozens of Spaniards, gets jailed, loses half his pirates and abandons the other half to die, and goes through all kinds of hell just to get that Aztec Throne. In the end, he gets it, and its all he has left... but he's OK with that.
* JerkAss: Don Alfonso de la Torré is a nasty piece of work. Not only is he cruel to his crew, condescending to Maria, contemptuous of anyone not Spanish (and some who are), it's implied it was he who poisoned The Neptune's captain to get command.
* KickTheDog: Even though he plans to execute them anyway, Don Alfonso makes Red and The Frog eat a dead rat at the officer's table purely out of spite.
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* [[ThePresidentsDaughter The Governor's Niece]]: María-Dolores.
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''Pirates'' is a 1986 Franco-Tunisian adventure film directed by Creator/RomanPolanski. It stars Walter Matthau, Cris Campion, Damien Thomas, Olu Jacobs and Charlotte Lewis. It was screened out of competition at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.

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''Pirates'' is a 1986 Franco-Tunisian adventure film directed by Creator/RomanPolanski. It stars Walter Matthau, Creator/WalterMatthau, Cris Campion, Damien Thomas, Olu Jacobs and Charlotte Lewis. It was screened out of competition at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.
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* NiceHat: Red's.

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* TheStrategist: Red.
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* UndyingLoyalty: Bumaku, to Red.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: The python. (The movie's pyrotechnic effects, on the other hand, are quite good.)
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: The python. (The movie's pyrotechnic effects, on the other hand, are quite good.)

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The pirate [[TheCaptain captain]] [[AwesomeMcCoolName Thomas Bartholomew Red]] is stranded aboard a raft at sea with Jean-Baptiste, his first mate ([[AffectionateNickname "Frog"]]). After Red, cracking under the starvation, tries to kill and eat Frog, the duo is picked up by a Spanish galleon and are forced into slavery before instigating a mutiny with the other prisoners and taking control of the vessel. Frog falls in love with María-Dolores de la Jenya de la Calde, the niece of the governor of a Spanish colony. Red covets the golden throne that the Spanish have taken from an Aztec king.

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The pirate [[TheCaptain captain]] [[AwesomeMcCoolName Thomas Bartholomew Red]] is stranded aboard a raft at sea with Jean-Baptiste, his first mate ([[AffectionateNickname "Frog"]]). After Red, cracking under the starvation, tries to kill and eat Frog, the duo is picked up by a Spanish galleon and are forced into slavery before instigating a mutiny with the other prisoners and taking control of the vessel. Frog falls in love with María-Dolores de la Jenya de la Calde, the niece of the governor of a Spanish colony. Red covets the golden throne that the Spanish have taken from an Aztec king. \n The two undertake an IndyPloy to get what they want: one of them succeeds. [[PyrrhicVictory Sort of.]]


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* AndTheAdventureContinues: In this instance, "adventure" means "being lost at sea."
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* BlackGuyDies: Bumaku doesn't make it.



* JollyRoger: Again, see the movie title.

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* BlackGuyDies: Bumaku doesn't make it.



* JollyRoger: Again, see the movie title.



* MeaningfulName: Capt Red's coat's color.

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* MeaningfulName: Capt Red's coat's Captain Red wears garments of a certain primary color.



* NiceGuy: Frog.

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* NiceGuy: Frog.The Frog is a decent guy. For, you know, a professional robber.



* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Boomako is attacked by a python at one point.

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* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Boomako Bumaku is attacked by a python at one point.



* UndyingLoyalty: Boomako, to Red.

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* UndyingLoyalty: Boomako, Bumaku, to Red.
* WoodenShipsAndIronMen
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* AgonyOfTheFeet: One of the Spanish nobles when Frog goes on board of the galleon and starts running.
* AntiHero: Captain Red.

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* AgonyOfTheFeet: One of the Spanish nobles when Frog goes on board of comes aboard the galleon and starts running.
* AntiHero: Captain Red.Red is brutal, greedy, drunken and conniving.



* BadassBeard: Red.

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* BadassBeard: Red.Captain Red ''has'' a face, but it's hard to spot.



* BookEnds: Our two heroes [[spoiler: start the movie aboard a raft at sea with a treasure chest. By the end of the movie, they're once again aboard a raft at sea, this time with a golden Aztec throne.]]
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
* GoldFever: Red.
* IAmAHumanitarian: At the beginning of the movie, Capt Red is faced with two choices on the raft : either die of starvation, or eat his first mate to survive a little more.
* LargeHam: Red.

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* BookEnds: An IronicEcho version. Our two heroes [[spoiler: start the movie aboard a raft at sea with a treasure chest. By the end of the movie, they're once again aboard a raft at sea, this time with a golden Aztec throne.]]
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The movie is about pirates.
* GoldFever: Red.
In Captain Red's case, it's almost cartoonish.
* IAmAHumanitarian: Played for laughs. At the beginning of the movie, Capt Red is faced the two leads are stranded on a lugger with two choices on the raft : either die of starvation, or eat his first mate to survive a little more.
no food in sight. Captain Red snaps.
* LargeHam: Red.Captain Red, like so many pirates.
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The pirate [[TheCaptain captain]] [[AwesomeMcCoolName Thomas Bartholomew Red]] is stranded aboard a raft at sea with Jean-Baptiste, his first mate (also known as "Frog"). After Red, cracking under the starvation, tries to kill and eat Frog, the duo is picked up by a Spanish galleon and are forced into slavery before instigating a mutiny with the other prisoners and taking control of the vessel. Frog falls in love with María-Dolores de la Jenya de la Calde, the niece of the governor of a Spanish colony. Red covets the golden throne that the Spanish have taken from an Aztec king.

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The pirate [[TheCaptain captain]] [[AwesomeMcCoolName Thomas Bartholomew Red]] is stranded aboard a raft at sea with Jean-Baptiste, his first mate (also known as "Frog").([[AffectionateNickname "Frog"]]). After Red, cracking under the starvation, tries to kill and eat Frog, the duo is picked up by a Spanish galleon and are forced into slavery before instigating a mutiny with the other prisoners and taking control of the vessel. Frog falls in love with María-Dolores de la Jenya de la Calde, the niece of the governor of a Spanish colony. Red covets the golden throne that the Spanish have taken from an Aztec king.
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* AgonyOfTheFeet: One of the Spanish nobles when Frog goes on board of the galleon.

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* AgonyOfTheFeet: One of the Spanish nobles when Frog goes on board of the galleon.galleon and starts running.
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The pirate [[TheCaptain captain]] Thomas Bartholomew Red is stranded aboard a raft at sea with Jean-Baptiste, his first mate (also known as "Frog"). After Red, cracking under the starvation, tries to kill and eat Frog, the duo is picked up by a Spanish galleon and are forced into slavery before instigating a mutiny with the other prisoners and taking control of the vessel. Frog falls in love with María-Dolores de la Jenya de la Calde, the niece of the governor of a Spanish colony. Red covets the golden throne that the Spanish have taken from an Aztec king.

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The pirate [[TheCaptain captain]] [[AwesomeMcCoolName Thomas Bartholomew Red Red]] is stranded aboard a raft at sea with Jean-Baptiste, his first mate (also known as "Frog"). After Red, cracking under the starvation, tries to kill and eat Frog, the duo is picked up by a Spanish galleon and are forced into slavery before instigating a mutiny with the other prisoners and taking control of the vessel. Frog falls in love with María-Dolores de la Jenya de la Calde, the niece of the governor of a Spanish colony. Red covets the golden throne that the Spanish have taken from an Aztec king.

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* ArtificialLimbs: Captain Red's peg leg.

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* AntiHero: Captain Red.
* ArtificialLimbs: Captain Red's peg leg.
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* MeaningfulName: Capt Red's coat's color.
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The pirate Captain Thomas Bartholomew Red is stranded aboard a raft at sea with Jean-Baptiste, his first mate (also known as "Frog"). After Red, cracking under the starvation, tries to kill and eat Frog, the duo is picked up by a Spanish galleon and are forced into slavery before instigating a mutiny with the other prisoners and taking control of the vessel. Frog falls in love with María-Dolores de la Jenya de la Calde, the niece of the governor of a Spanish colony. Red covets the golden throne that the Spanish have taken from an Aztec king.

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The pirate Captain [[TheCaptain captain]] Thomas Bartholomew Red is stranded aboard a raft at sea with Jean-Baptiste, his first mate (also known as "Frog"). After Red, cracking under the starvation, tries to kill and eat Frog, the duo is picked up by a Spanish galleon and are forced into slavery before instigating a mutiny with the other prisoners and taking control of the vessel. Frog falls in love with María-Dolores de la Jenya de la Calde, the niece of the governor of a Spanish colony. Red covets the golden throne that the Spanish have taken from an Aztec king.
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* TheStrategist: Red.
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''Pirates'' is a 1986 Franco-Tunisian adventure film directed by Creator/RomanPolanski. It stars Walter Matthau, Cris Campion, Damien Thomas and Charlotte Lewis. It was screened out of competition at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.

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''Pirates'' is a 1986 Franco-Tunisian adventure film directed by Creator/RomanPolanski. It stars Walter Matthau, Cris Campion, Damien Thomas Thomas, Olu Jacobs and Charlotte Lewis. It was screened out of competition at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.
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* UndyingLoyalty: Boomako, to Red.

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* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Boomako is attacked by a python at one point.
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* [[ThePresidentsDaughter The Governor's Daughter]]: María-Dolores.

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* [[ThePresidentsDaughter The Governor's Daughter]]: Niece]]: María-Dolores.
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* GoldFever; Red.

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* GoldFever; GoldFever: Red.
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''Pirates'' is a 1986 Franco-Tunisian adventure film directed by Creator/RomanPolanski. It stars Walter Matthau, Cris Campion, Damien Thomas (VF : Claude Giraud) : 'Don Alfonso Felipe Salamanca de la Torré
Charlotte Lewis It was screened out of competition at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.

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''Pirates'' is a 1986 Franco-Tunisian adventure film directed by Creator/RomanPolanski. It stars Walter Matthau, Cris Campion, Damien Thomas (VF : Claude Giraud) : 'Don Alfonso Felipe Salamanca de la Torré
and Charlotte Lewis Lewis. It was screened out of competition at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.
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* LargHam: Red.

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* LargHam: LargeHam: Red.
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''Pirates'' is a 1986 Franco-Tunisian adventure film directed by Creator/RomanPolanski. It stars It was screened out of competition at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.

The pirate Captain Thomas Bartholomew Red is stranded aboard a raft at sea with his first mate, Frog. After Red, cracking under the starvation, tries to kill and eat Frog, the duo is picked up by a Spanish galleon and are forced into slavery before instigating a mutiny with the other prisoners and taking control of the vessel. Frog falls in love with María-Dolores de la Jenya de la Calde, the niece of the governor of a Spanish colony. Red covets the golden throne that the Spanish have taken from an Aztec king.

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''Pirates'' is a 1986 Franco-Tunisian adventure film directed by Creator/RomanPolanski. It stars Walter Matthau, Cris Campion, Damien Thomas (VF : Claude Giraud) : 'Don Alfonso Felipe Salamanca de la Torré
Charlotte Lewis
It was screened out of competition at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.

The pirate Captain Thomas Bartholomew Red is stranded aboard a raft at sea with Jean-Baptiste, his first mate, Frog.mate (also known as "Frog"). After Red, cracking under the starvation, tries to kill and eat Frog, the duo is picked up by a Spanish galleon and are forced into slavery before instigating a mutiny with the other prisoners and taking control of the vessel. Frog falls in love with María-Dolores de la Jenya de la Calde, the niece of the governor of a Spanish colony. Red covets the golden throne that the Spanish have taken from an Aztec king.



* ArtificialLimbs: Captain Red has a wooden leg.

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* AgonyOfTheFeet: One of the Spanish nobles when Frog goes on board of the galleon.
* ArtificialLimbs: Captain Red has a wooden Red's peg leg.



* BookEnds: [[spoiler: Our two heroes start the movie aboard a raft at sea. By the end of the movie, they're again aboard a rat at sea, with a golden Aztec throne this time.]]

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* BookEnds: [[spoiler: Our two heroes [[spoiler: start the movie aboard a raft at sea. sea with a treasure chest. By the end of the movie, they're once again aboard a rat raft at sea, this time with a golden Aztec throne this time.throne.]]


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* TheMutiny
* NiceGuy: Frog.
* NiceHat: Red's.
* [[ThePresidentsDaughter The Governor's Daughter]]: María-Dolores.
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''Pirates'' is a 1986 Franco-Tunisian adventure film directed by Roman Polanski. It stars It was screened out of competition at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.

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''Pirates'' is a 1986 Franco-Tunisian adventure film directed by Roman Polanski.Creator/RomanPolanski. It stars It was screened out of competition at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.
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''Pirates'' is a 1986 Franco-Tunisian adventure film directed by Roman Polanski. It stars It was screened out of competition at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.

The pirate Captain Thomas Bartholomew Red is stranded aboard a raft at sea with his first mate, Frog. After Red, cracking under the starvation, tries to kill and eat Frog, the duo is picked up by a Spanish galleon and are forced into slavery before instigating a mutiny with the other prisoners and taking control of the vessel. Frog falls in love with María-Dolores de la Jenya de la Calde, the niece of the governor of a Spanish colony. Red covets the golden throne that the Spanish have taken from an Aztec king.

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* ArtificialLimbs: Captain Red has a wooden leg.
* BadassBeard: Red.
* BookEnds: [[spoiler: Our two heroes start the movie aboard a raft at sea. By the end of the movie, they're again aboard a rat at sea, with a golden Aztec throne this time.]]
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
* GoldFever; Red.
* IAmAHumanitarian: At the beginning of the movie, Capt Red is faced with two choices on the raft : either die of starvation, or eat his first mate to survive a little more.
* {{Swashbuckler}}

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