It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

If i could un-see any single film it would be this one. My parents took me to see it in the theater and I'm convinced that it's what drove me to alcoholism in my late teens. I'm not sure if I believe in hell but if it exists it consists of sinners being forced to watch this abomination over and over again.

Mabel Stanley (Kristy McNichol) is a homely shy teenage girl who comes with her outgoing friends to a pirate festival. The bare chested swordplay instructor (Christopher Atkins) invites her on a boat ride. The girls take him and the boat out leaving Mabel behind. She tries to catch up in a small sailboat and falls into the sea. She's washed up on a beach dreaming an old timey pirate fantasy. Frederic (Atkins) is the young apprentice of the Pirate King (Ted Hamilton) but he refuses to join them on his 21st birthday. Pirates had killed his parents and vows to exterminate all pirates. They send him off on a row boat. Mabel is the youngest daughter of Major-General Stanley (Bill Kerr) and by custom must be the last to marry.It definitely is high on the cheesy camp factor. It's fun and delightful if you're in the mood. Who isn't in love with McNichol back then? And Atkins is fully in his hunky beachy curly hair. It is self-aware and a fun broad spoof. If you're a Gilbert and Sullivan purist, this is going to grate on your nerves. How dare they spoof such an institution as 'The Pirates of Penzance'. I say why not. Pumpin' And Blowin' gets the Razzie for the Worst Original Song. It tells me people either get the joke or hate the joke because the song itself isn't bad. It's just ridiculous which makes this movie an easy target.

Peach, so glad there is someone else out there. My sister and I have loved this movie since 87 as well. After seeing it on t.v., my mother spent long pre-internet hours and a good amount of cash locating a copy on VHS for us because we had to have it. We knew all the songs by heart and even danced and acted them out. The movie is full of sexual innuendo that went over our heads and made Mom giggle. When I watch it now it is funny, silly and a wonderful indulgence. If you have daughters, let them check this one out. Yay for happy endings! And yay for a heroine who is independent, smart, awkward, honest and feisty! We can have it both ways.

All right, so it's no "Godfather." It's not even as good as, say, "South Pacific." But director Ken Annakin's "The Pirate Movie," something of a spoof of "The Pirates of Pennzance," is hilarious. Featuring a modernized story (still set in the good old days of the 1800s, though), a comical cast, and a combination of both updated songs from the original opera and entirely new and somewhat engaging ones, it unfolds in spectacular slapstick, parody, and general hilarity. And, yes, so "First Love" is a song that makes you want to put a bullet in the TV. What does it matter with a film so campy-wonderful? If you're looking for a serious movie with a socially redemptive message, you've definitely come to the wrong place. But I don't believe you'd really come here for that anyway. So enjoy your pirates!