Pirates: Band Of Misfits, The (2012, United Kingdom/United States/Ireland/France/Canada)

The Pirates! Band of Misfits (The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists in the UK) is a 2012 Academy Award-nominated 3-D stop-motion animated film produced by Aardman Animations and Sony Pictures Animation. Peter Lord directed, and among the featured voices are those of Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek, Jeremy Piven, Imelda Staunton, and David Tennant.
Based on the combined stories of the first two books from Gideon Defoe’s “The Pirates!” series: “The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists” and “The Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling.”[1]

It is Aardman Animations’ first stop-motion clay animated feature to be released in Digital 3D and their first stop-motion film since “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit” and “Chicken Run”.