Blackbeard's Ghost

Not merely a Disneyfied version of a march darker and deeper book, but casting Peter Ustinov as Blackbeard pushed it even farther from the source material. That said, Freder still likes this one a lot . . . everyone is just out to have some fun, and it rubs off on the audience. Wish that Disney's DVD release treated this one with a little bit of respect; but no, it's just a straight port of the VHS version.

A childhood favorite.

Hilarious! Great old-fashioned family film. With pirates!

An absolute blast from the past! One of my very favourite films as a kid, it still retains a high amount of charm and fat chunk of fun! Peter Ustinov is awesome as a drunkard Blackbeard.

Ustinov is a blast as the infamous pirate. Formula Disney comedy given a lift via a trenchant script that gets most of its humor from good characters rather than the usual carload of hokey special FX.

Not bad.

This was always on at my grandad's house when I was younger, I remembered it as being quite fun. Young me was right, it's a blast.