The Pirates

[Drunk Monk]

This is a delightful Korean film that came out last year, a great romp and a fine example of entertaining K-flicks. It's Pirates of the Caribbean meets Moby Dick and Whale Rider. There's some cheesey CGI, some totally comic book characters, an uber sword hottie pirate captain, lots of eye patches and scars, battles at sea, and a ton of fun sword fights. It's an action adventure, a comedy, a romance, two-hours of fairly constant entertainment, a little bloody but family-friendly for the most part. And like good K-flicks, it makes some sharp surprising turns that keep the plot moving along nicely. I thoroughly enjoyed this. It also stars Hae-jin Yoo as the comic lead, who also starred in Woochi, another fine K-flick of a similar nature (which I didn't fawn over nearly enough in my DOOM review here: <!-- l --><a class="postlink-local" href="http://brotherhoodofdoom.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3002">viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3002</a><!-- l -->).

It's on Netflix.