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Pirates a clever, funny homage to film classics
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Pirate with a Scarf, voiced by Martin Freeman, left, and Pirate Captain, voiced by Hugh Grant, are shown in a scene from "The Pirates! Band of Misfits."
All animated family movies try to please both kids and parents, but no studio does it as well and as consistently as Aardman Animations. The UK studio has carved out a distinct niche over the years with “Chicken Run” and the Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Creature Comforts franchises. Aardman still works primarily in Claymation, that beloved, anachronistic stop-motion animation style that uses plasticine figures for characters.