Review: The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything

I'm pretty picky about the movies that I'm willing to pay full price to see in the theater. Jeff and I see very few, and we take our kids to even fewer. But we are VeggieTales fans at our house, and wanting to support the people who make such fun clean family movies, we decided to take all the kids to see "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything" movie for Family Home Evening tonight. It was fun and it was clean and it was VeggieTales, but it just wasn't up to their high standards of quality and cleverness. The kids enjoyed it, but the adults were a little disappointed. The killer Cheese Curls were funny, and the Rock Monster song at the end may have saved it for Jeff, but they needed more of it--more pop culture references, more Silly Song-type stuff to go along with the cute story and characters and the positive message. Phil Vischer, Mike Nawrocki, and Kurt Heineke have done better. The early VeggieTales episodes (pre-2003 Big Idea buyout) are still the best. Bottom line: Buy the DVD when it comes out, but don't bother taking the kiddos to see it on the big screen.