The Pirates…Shipped on UK DVD and Blu-ray without a politically incorrect leper joke

Posted: 13 September, 2012 in New Releases
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Pirates Adventure Scientists DVD The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists is a UK/US animation by Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt.
With Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek and Jeremy Piven. See IMDb

UK: The UK Version was passed U without BBFC cuts for very mild language, violence, threat and innuendo for:

  • UK 2012 Sony RB 3D Blu-ray at UK Amazon released on 10th September 2012.
  • UK 2012 Sony RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon released on 10th September 2012.
  • UK 2012 Sony R2 DVD at UK Amazon released on 10th September 2012.
  • UK 2012 [2D,3D] cinema release

A joke was dropped for political correctness about the Pirate Captain on board a captive ship, demanding gold.  Afraid we don’t have any gold old man, this is a leper-boat, explains a crew member. See, he adds as his arm falls off. The leper boat was transformed into a plague ship.

Other Versions

There seems to be several international versions where the dialogue has been adapted to various countries. The US version has accents redubbed and it loses a couple of slightly more adult jokes. There are also changes to dialogue that is country specific

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