Yellowbeard
by Mel Damski
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Actor: Cheech Marin, Graham Chapman, Peter Boyle, Peter Cook, Tommy ChongDirector: Mel Damski
Brand: Sony
Writer: Graham Chapman
Writer: Peter Cook
Cinematographer: Gerry Fisher
Producer: Carter DeHaven
Producer: John Daly
Writer: Bernard McKenna
Writer: David Sherlock
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-27
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of Yellowbeard
DVD Review: Born a pirate
Summary: 3 Stars
Graham Chapman was a member of the classic comedy gang Monty Python, so it's not too surprising that "Yellowbeard" plays out like the world's longest Python skit -- tasteless, hilarious, and full of clinically insane characters. It doesn't have much of a plot, but the A-grade comedy actors make up for that much of the time.
Raping/pillaging pirate Yellowbeard (Chapman) has been in prison for twenty years for tax evasion. But since he's never even hinted where his treasure is, Navy Commander Clement (Eric Idle) pretends to add a hundred-forty years onto his sentence, hoping that he'll escape and lead them to the treasure. He does escape, but discovers that his tarty wife (Madeleine Kahn) has transferred his treasure map onto the head of her (and probably his) son Dan (Martin Hewitt).
After trying to decapitate Dan, Yellowbeard agrees to go on an adventure for the treasure, along with a scholarly doctor and an absentminded peer. Only the three of them get kidnapped by a press gang, and so Yellowbeard follows them on board, intent on raping, pillaging, mutiny, and getting back the treasure he took from the Spaniards (Cheech and Chong).
Yeah, it's a pretty thin plot -- the second half has basically no plot at all. But somehow it doesn't really interfere with the enjoyment of the story, especially since the cast is pure comic gold. Heck, it contains half of Monty Python --really, what higher compliment can you pay it than that?
The whole hijinks-on-the-way-to-treasure gets kind of muddled, as does the revenge of Yellowbeard's ex-first-mate. So Chapman and David Sherlock load on the mildly offensive comedy, including a bunch of sailors trying to smuggle prostitutes on board, and kindly Lord Lambourn constantly forgetting who other people are and what they're doing.
The dialogue is even better -- wonderfully weird, sometimes sick ("Look, if you cut my head off it'll start to putrify!" "Do what?" "Putrify, go rotten!" "Yeah, it would ooze a bit, heads do. But I could live with it!"). Sometimes the humor is horribly punny, such as one exchange between Idle and John Cleese: "I may be blind, but I have acute 'earing." "I don't care about your jewelry!"
Unsurprisingly, Chapman rules this with his wild-eyed, bloodthirsty, bawdy pirate -- it seems like a a Python character who never made it to the screen. Yellowbeard is great fun, and Chapman has two of his Python pals as well -- Idle as a perpetually frustrated Navy commander, and Cleese as a blind beggar with hearing that should count as a superpower.
Cheech and Chong make some cameos as greedy Spaniards as well, and Peter Cook has an endearing turn as the absentminded Lambourn. As if that wasn't enough, two of Mel Brooks' favorites are on here -- Madeleine Kahn as Yellowbeard's tarty, untruthful wife ("The afterplay was on the rough side, but not fatal, dear"), and Marty Feldman as a creepy little pirate spy. Sadly Feldman died on the last day of this shoot.
"Yellowbeard" is kinda lacking in plot, but it almost makes up for that with a hilarious, slightly demented cast of classic comedy actors, and plenty of quotables. Definitely worth seeing.
Description of Yellowbeard
YELLOWBEARD - DVD MovieYellowbeard, a comedy cast with the all-star comedians of the 1980s, is a unique, corny spoof on pirate films. Like a Mel Brooks movie, Yellowbeard's plot is a series of ridiculous events, á la Airplane, circulating around Yellowbeard's (Graham Chapman) discovery that he has an "intellectual" son. Brain versus brawn is the film's theme, as Yellowbeard is forced to take his kid on a booty-hunt, since the pirate's ex-wife, Betty (Madeline Kahn), tattooed the treasure map on their child's head. As the bumbling British, including Harvey "Blind" Pew (John Cleese) and Gilbert Murvin (Marty Feldman), sail The Royal Navy Frigate to trail Yellowbeard's ship, The Lady Edith, The Spanish Main, captained by El Nebuloso (Tommy Chong) and El Segundo (Cheech Marin) follows in close pursuit. Three ships in constant battle on the open seas make for multiple comedic situations reminiscent of Monty Python. Directed by Mel Damski (Charmed, Lois & Clark), Yellowbeard has a made-for-TV cheesiness, though the talent of the actors, not to mention its off-kilter British humor, rescues the film from utter stupidity. --Trinie Dalton
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