#darkwing dubloon

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- Day 72 // Pirate Bushroot !!!

Episode 40: "Darkwing Doubloon"

(Also I didn't tell but a month ago or something I was really obessed with Darkwing Doubloon for like 2 weeks & the obsession is coming back now lol :3 )

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Doodles from the Pirate AU gang

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PIRATE MONTH: The Darkwing Dubloon (Darkwing Duck) Review: Our Flag Means Darkwing (Comissioned by WeirdKev27)

Ahoy lubbers and welcome to Pirate Month, a whole month of pirate themed reviews on this fine ship of a blog. I”m your captain jake and starting us off is a weird one.. well by darkwing duck standards.. by my blog’s standards..

IT barely reaches the top 20. And I didn’t even get a photo for the “pants sundae” from austin and ally.. mostly because I don’t want to end up on some form of watchlist for doing my job. 

So reviewing an episode where for no reasons other than the creators thought it would kick ass, which it did so.. touche, we go to the past/some form of pirate au where Pirate Era verisons of Team Darkwing, Gizmoduck and Stegmutt battle pirate era versions of the Fearsome Five. Why is there suddenly a lineage of darkwings? Is this canon? How do all the villians exist in this timeline when most of their origins should be impossible? why does negaduck have a 14 year old’s mustache? 

None of this is really explained. We just get a narration of darkwing leading us in and we’re off. So you’d think just plunking us in to Launchpad’s Pirate AU Darkwing Fanfiction wouldn’t work.. but it does. As I oft have to remind myself Darkwing Duck.. is not a very continuity driven show. Even putting the episode order that i’m convinced is really the sacred text of some elder god designed to drive mortals to madness, while it HAS continuity, the main goal is always jokes.  It’s a comedy first, and an action show second and while it delivers on both, it’s mostly there to deliver a good episode. So if they want to take a break and just.. plop the characters in pirate times and make a swashbuckling, more dapper version of darkwing. Why the fuck not? As I said it works

This is a solid episode> Admitely there’s not a ton to talk about: character wise the characters are almost all 1:1: The five are their usual selves and resent their boss but are too scard of him, Negaduck is unhinged and resents his arch, Launchpad is stupid but loyal, Gosalyn is still gosalyn... it’’s mostly the same.  But it works since w eknow the characters well and it’s more about having fun with the premise than really spotliting the sheer amount of characters in this.  They also DO have a lot of fun with Gizmoduck,w ho still acts like a chivlarous superhero with darkwing frustratedly having to remind the dipstick he’s a pirate and i’ts okay not to play fair or announce what your doing. 

Drake is the only real diffrence. In civies instead of being the same he’s servile, working for King Muddlefoot.. who is in the episode at th ebeigning nad end. Also why Drake needs a cover id when just being darkwing full time would make more since here, I don’t know. It’s the one part of the episode that dosen’t make no sense in the fun way. IT’s just dumb. But as the Darkwing Dubloon, he has darkwings ego, but also a touch of class, speaking a bit more posh and heroic, but still being himself. It’s a ncie little touch as it makes drake fit the pirate fiction drama a bit better. Also a touch our flag means death which I REALLY need to watch. I’ve only seen the trailer. I”m dumb, we’ve established this. You’ve seen what I cover. WOuldn’t change it for the world. 

Really the episodes strength is the clever back and forth as Dubloon tries to rob the fearsome five and they try to rob him back with the treasure going back and forth. It’s why I don’t have a ton to say this go round even if the episode is really good: it’s really just a fun game of cat and mouse, basically looney tunes but with more pirates and superheroes. It knows i’ts just a silly, one off au episode and decides to just have fun instead of trying to dive deeper into characters, or at least versions of the characters, we don’t see again. It’s a really fun episode I highly recommend and a great way to kick things off. 

[amysmusings-archive]

Listening to Karilene's Anne Bonny album makes me think of how I'll always have Drake Mallard as trans, no matter what time period.

The idea of a transman pirate completely, shamelessly using his forced gender role against transphobes and his ferocity to face down every man that under estimated him or intentionally misgendered him, becoming the most feared piratelord of the seven seas fills me so much joy.

[drakewing-duck]

I LOVE your style! Could you draw Darkwing Dubloon n pirate Negaduck?

Tried me best arr

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THE FEARSOME FOURS UNENTHUSIASTIC “yaaaay” AT THE END ALSKSJDJDJ

THEY HATE HIM SO MUCH

[raeloganthesonic06fangirl]

Rank all of the disguises Quackerjack wore from worst to best. All of them. >:)

... Hoo-boy, this is going to be a matter of my personal opinions, and because I'm quite literal, you specifically said "disguises" but I think I'll toss in alternate costume changes commentaries as well. I had to combine stuff since Tumblr has a a 10 image limit still after all these years. 👀

So, anyway, worst to best? This is going to be a long post, lol

#10

Yet another Joker reference saturating the already broken comic version of QuackerJack

Oh my God, I swear, I know too much about Joker lore than I want to. It's not that I hate the character, but Joker is freaking everywhere now, and this one in particular is just disgusting because this is referencing the variation of Joker that cut his own face off and stapled the rotting meat flesh back on his head.

I mean, it's bad enough to try to shoehorn "The Killing Joke" elements into a Disney spin off franchise, which, while a phenomenal story that is a must read for Batman fans on account of how influential it is in the modern mythos... It's also freaking disturbing content-wise and it's weird that it's being referenced in a franchise that was originally aimed at kids. This also applies to referring to "Death of the Family", which, again, has Joker mutilating his own face just because he can. That knowledge alone is freaky when we realize this is the last image of original continuity QuackerJack, and we can't see his face, and he also has a Duck face mask hung up on the wall. Also, there's a wanted poster of QuackerJack pinned up that replicates a famous wanted poster for Joker. The whole panel and outfit is just Joker fanboy-ing and infecting QuackerJack with this. I can't like this, it's just all sorts of gross and disturbing when I know exactly what materials it's referring to. 😒

#9

Anything QuackerJack is forced to wear against his choice or will

Not pictured: That time Paddywhack stripped him down to his boxers and socks.

Jumpsuits and business attire is clearly not something QuackerJack would chose to wear on his own. He's not happy in them.

#8

Darkwing Dubloon Universe QuackerJack

This is a pirate costume? Oh, Jacky, you can do better, dude.

#7

This giant teddy bear with murder in its eyes

This counts as a costume because he did wear it. Prove me wrong, lol.

#6

Anything QuackerJack wears as either an additional ensemble for adapting his outfit to the situation/gag, or just as a one off joke that wasn't meant to be incognito

It's clear that Jacky likes to dress up. This guy was probably a theater kid in his youth or something, either that or costume designer for drama class.

#5

Nega-QuackerJack gets a separate entry for both costume changes because he's one of several different versions of QuackerJack that exists

If he had more screentime, I could put him higher on the list, but Nega-QuackerJack is a cinnamon bun, shaped like a friend, gosh I cannot express how much I adore this version of QuackerJack and it's an absolute crime that his screentime doesn't even exceed 9 minutes. This is what I imagine QuackerJack was probably like personality-wise before he snapped. A good soft boy, and I love that his Darkwing Duck hat sits on top of his cap, as does the face mask. He's got a costume on a costume, and his tinkering outfit includes two magnifying glasses adapted into eyeglasses, I bet he made that rig himself.

#4

The ever trusty Trenchcoat and Fedora

He's used this multiple times, and it somehow manages to flawless in concealing his identity until he throws it off himself. The only thing I could add to it as a suggestion is that maybe he should tuck the dingle-dangles of the cap into the back, so that it doesn't immediately give away his appearance to us at a first glance. Other than that, nearly flawless.

#3

Dr. Heebie

The introduction atmosphere alone gets bonus points, look at that lighting for that framing bit, that's amazing. I love the attempt to hide one of his most identifying features, his toothy grin, by wearing a mask. At this point, I think everyone just mentally accepted his cap as a feature on his head because regardless of how visible it is, no one in-universe seems to catch on that he's wearing it in all his costumes.

#2

Dr. Loon

Words cannot accurately describe how much I love the effort in this. Instead of hiding his main body costume under the new outfit, he's gone and taken it out of the equation entirely, leaving the cap and shoes instead. He's got pants, he's got his cap braided like hair to tame its dingle-dangles behind him, he's got glasses on, he's got a fake beard strapped to his face with obvious straps and it hanging so loosely, he's got another hat on... The glasses, beard and hat all draw attention away from the fool's cap. He's put a lot of effort into this, and this is one of my favorites of his overall costumes he's used.

#1

An Actual Jester

This disguise is perfect. He didn't have to change anything about his existing fashion, he was 100% prepared for this exact situation. Brilliant. 😁

[nyancatiscool94]

 2nd Chester art dump imma make those basically once a week I think made him friends bc no one deserves to be lonely. ✨The one w chains is the Darkwing Dubloon au✨.

[theragegur]

Though I was dead DIDN’T YA!? eh, probs mostly am too. University is sumthin. Here something to amuse us. Darkwing Dubloon - the pirate AU! haha.... ha. ....oh have some more stuff too- have sum empty meme templates lol

[raeloganthesonic06fangirl]

Honestly, this episode is one of my favorites purely because of how wild and experimental the animation is on QuackerJack. Later episodes, although wonderfully animated and crisp, just didn't have that hyper and stretchy feel this episode does, except for "Darkwing Dubloon" (which, no surprise, was the same animation studio).

I mean, yeah, his voice hasn't quite been well defined yet and he's a bit more higher pitched and whiny sounding with his baseline tone, but that can really maybe be believable as being THE moment where he joined the ranks as a St. Canardian Hardened Criminal™ and was in the early stages of his first years, like, maybe all that pent up energy from the build up in his prior is just exploding here and his next appearance could be that he's mellowed out a bit because he got that out of his system and is ready to really take his antics up a notch..?

It's a great debut episode and an absolute crime that the DVDs put that down as part of Volume 2 and put it down as his fifth episode or something instead of where it belongs.

((seriously, the DVDs messed up the entire order of everything, there's no chronological layout as intended, they need to make a new release))

more screencaps i am obsessed with, this time from whiffle while you work :]

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- Day 64 // Darkwing Doubloon!!

Sorry that tbis isnt the fearsome 5 stimboard i promised to post 2day😭 Here's some extra photos! :]

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while i'm still in a darkwing mood...

Sequel to Darkwing Dubloon where Morgana's equivalent there is a siren/sea witch/kraken abomination monstrosity that attacks the ship.

Gosalyn: Is she gunna destroy the ship?!

Launchpad: Can she be stopped?!

Darkwing: ... Is she single? <3 <3 <3

[darkwingsimonau]

Darkwing Dubloon AU strip. Gotta have some wholesome moments with Dadwing.

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Pirate Month!: Pirates!: Adventures with Scientists (Band of Misfits) Review!: Release The British Cut (Commison for WeirdKev27)

Come aboard all ye happy swabs, i’m yer Captain Jake and this is Pirate Month, where I review a bunch of the finest works to sale the seven seas. 

And while Darkwing Dubloon got us kicked off, it’s now time to sale right and proper with what i’ve found on rewatch to be a true classic: Pirates; An Adventure with Scientests! Or as it was known here in the US, Pirates: Band of Misfits. 

Pirates is the fifth film from beloved animation studio Aardman and isn’t he first film i’ve covered of theres on there blog, as last year I did a Wallace and Gromit retrospective, cumulating in Curse of the Were-Rabbit, which is excellent. And since Kev, my patron turned friend who still pays me money to review things was the one behind that, it was only a matter of time before I came back, and gladly as i’ve always loved Aardman and remembered liking what I saw of this films when my niece and nibling got it when they were young. So I was happy to give it another look. 

Before I can get into what I thought about it (aka what I was paid for and frankly would’ve done for free but mans gotta eat), a bit of backstory: For starters to my shock Pirates is actually based on a book of the same name, starting a whole SERIES by author Gideon DaFoe who wrote the script for the movie on top of this. Had I known this I would’ve tired to get and read the book beforehand, so as a result I can’t say how it stacks as an adaptation. I can say however that, in part due to having the authors input and clearly loving said source material it seems in the same spirit: Madcap adventures with pirates following the daft Pirate Captain (which everyone uses as if it was his name) and his crew of ham loving pirates who don’t really have names just descrptions such as number 2, albino pirate, and suprsiingly curvacious pirate (aka a woman whose only disguise is a fake bushy beard), who get into shenanigans. In short just from what I could find out about the book and the other books, it was PERFECT material for Aardman to adapt. 

It was also something they’d wanted to do fairly quick as the book came out in 2004 and was what the crew wanted to do as their next film at Dreamworks after Curse of the Were-Rabbit. And Jeffrey Katzenberg’s response?

Yeah Jeff’s justification was that “Pirate movies just aren’t profitable right now” Given this was after Pirates of The Carribean had been a MASSIVE sleeper hit for disney and was on track to have two sequels which would end up being monster hits, I can only guess that his real justification was ‘I’M NOT GIVING THOSE GREASY BASTARDS THE SATSIFACTION OF COPYING THEM. I’LL SHOW THEM BY NOT MAKING MONEY. SEE HOW THEY LIKE IT”. Which somehow ISN’T the dumbest corprate decision i’ve read about in the past week, but only because Warner Bros just torched a film people woul’dve gladly seen for a tax writeoff and still hasn’t backed down from this monumentally dumbass and not remotely seen as smart decsion, so it kinda came in at a bad week. 

SHOCKINGLY their partnership with Dreamworks only lasted through flushed away after this kind of sterling decision, so they went to Sony next, pre-knowing what they were doing with animation so it only lasted Arthur Christmas, another film I need to cover sometime, and this flim. 

That said even if the Pirates of The Caribbiean craze was gone, Sony still smartly backed the studio who knew better than them, so this flim happened. Production was apparently really smooth, with Aardman taking their cg knowledge to the film, allowing them to do a film with water and on boats like this FAR easier than in the past. Hence the water in the film is cg and some of the sets were expanded with it. And i’m entirley okay with this: I’m sure some claymation purists aren’t, but sometimes there’s only SO FAR you can go with a medium budget and time wise, and it’s done in a way that I GENINELY thought the water was done with stop motion. And even once I knew otherwise., I still couldn’t tell looking at the sets and water that it wasn’t stop motion. I’ts blended perfectly and thus allows the film to be as grand and swashbuckling as it should be. 

That said a good production... didn’t translate to good box office. It did eh in the united states. I think part of this is the title as in the US we got band of misfits which isn’t bad, it’s an apt title, but it’s just not as inherently funny as “In an adventure with scientests” and was bafflingly changed because the books weren’t as big here.. forgetting that an adaptation of books can MAKE the books big. I didn’t even know Over the Hedge existed before the movie, and i’m a huge comic strip nerd, and How to Train Your Dragon, while being vastly diffrent from the books, still got them to sell and wider distribution. 

IT also probably dosen’t hlep that for older fans they cut a lot of risque jokes from the film. I watched the UK cut this go round, which I want to get a wider release as it’s REALLY funny, and it does have some adult jokes such as Charles Darwin outright mentiong his monkey bob’s “Unsightly ass” and a scientest promoting an airship , which would change travel, as really being the best because you can look down ladies tops (which Charles confirms later). It also weirdly swapped out the actors for Albino pirate for no real reason. 

But honestly while it had those things working against it.. what ultimately doomed it was opening between avengers and hunger games. In short.. it was SONY’S fault, not the films. Even edited down, it simply coudln’t compete with the two biggest films of the year, and thus Sony ended the partnership and Aardman has gone mostly independent, most recently partnering with Netflix, which has me worried given how the last few partnerships went and Netflix current state, but hopefully it pans out.  That said provided Sony no longer has the rights to the books, it does mean since their making plenty of sequels out of the gate, we have a chance at a sequel for this film, as Aardman DID have one planned and there are plenty of nutty adventures from the books to adapt in addition to the adventures with cowboys idea: they adventure with captain ahab, mary shelley and COMMUNISTS. Yes there really is an adventure with communists including Karl Marks. I REALLY gotta get my hands on these books because hot damn this is amazing and deserves a tv series. Or a series of movies. Just aardman, somehow continue this. I beg you. 

Before we get into why i’m begging them, we have one last bit of buisness to cover for those unlucky souls who haven’t seen the movie and those of you who like me hadn’t seen it in a decade and thus don’t remember it that well. 

Pirates follows Pirate Captain, played by Hugh Grant whose easily the best part of this flim. And keep in mind the voice cast ofr this flim is NOT remotely shallow: We have Martin Freeman as Number Two (Aka Pirate with a Scarf) Pirate Captain’s oft ignored and frustrated #2, Imelda Staunton flexing her Umbridge Muscles (While I may be frosty towards harry potter for obvious TERF shaped reasons, I won’t deny that her performance in the film was fucking pitch perfect and she’s pretty much playing umbridge as the queen of england here, same mixture of sometines going full ham mixed with icy could authortanisim with a sugary hint of malice), David Fucking Tennant in one of his earlier VA rolls as Charles Darwin, the wonderful Selma Hayek in a sadly short roll as Cutlass LIz, extra shouty king of kings BRIAN BELSSED as The Pirate King, and in the US Cut, the late great Anton Yelchen. Add in some great UK voices I don’t recognize in name but do a great job, with my faviotie being the equally underultizied pegleg hastings by Lenny Henry and scottishy Ashely Jennings as Suprisingly Curvacious Pirate, and you have one hell of a cast and Grant still tops them. Grant plays Pirate Captain to the hilt, playing him as on the surface a jolly swashbuckler with a sense of gravitas, a mastery of disguise, and a flair.. while also being a bit impulsive, rekckless, egotistical and his most crippling selfish, putting his desire for Pirate Of the Year over common sense, which he has little of to begin with and often taking his second for granted, to Number Two’s frustration.

You also see though WHY he wants this so bad: the three front runners, Liz, Hastings and “Sigh” Black Belamy. Black Belamy is played by Jeremy Piven, and he broes it up to hell and back and it just does not FIT at all. Aardman is a very british company and while I don’t have anything against using a yank actor if it’s for contrast like say casting future abuser and anti-semite mel gibson as Rocky in Chicken Run,. As TERRIBLE as that turned out in hindsight, which to Aardman and Dreamworks credit they coudln’t of possibly seen coming, casting a big time american actory to play a very american rooster, who deliberatley contrasts the very british hens, works. Their TRYING to do that here, but it just dosen’t work, as while Vance Waggoner was set up as a kind of 50′s rockstar to contrast the 40′s setting... Belamy however is just...

That’s all. He’s the weakest part of the film as a result and feels very much like he was added soley because Sony wanted a bigger name in the cast. 

So to one up Black Bodyspray, Pirate Captain tries looting a few ships to hilarious but unfruitful results. One was SUPPOSED to be a leper colony, but was changed to plauge boat as Aardman got backlash from the Leper Community, which they, like myself, likely didn’t realise still exist and I salute them for taking a backlash like that and changing it instead of just you know screaming NO YOUR WRONG like many often do. Aardman is a class act and while it was a low bar they cleared it. 

Thankfully he gets thrown a bone as the next boat, while not having treasure, contains Charles freaking Darwin. And i’ve glossed over it till now, but yes, a CRITICAL character in this film is Charles Darwin. And as I said this was not only in the book, if in a diffrent form judging from wikipedia but spirals from mildly rediculous here to metting Karl Marks and the Captain romancing Mary Shelley.  And given the books are fairly cheap, I will defintely be keeping an eye out for them at bookstores and possibly reviewing them in the future because they sound delightful as they are ridiculous. 

Darwin nearly walks the plank because the Captain needs a pick me up after throwing a Tommy Wiseau style tantrum, but Darwin saves his own life, and gets drudged out of the sea after Suprisingly Curvacious PIrate jumps the gun and sends him overboard, by spotting Polly.. and revealing she’s a Dodo. The captain is understandably not receptive to showing her off at the science expo, not helped by it being in London, home of the Queen who hates pirates as much as the Marines in One PIece and is just as harsh towards them. But the promise of Untold Riches means the Captain decideds fuck it and they head to London. Darwin serves as the antagonist for this portion as the untold riches end up being an audience with the queen, and as such he keeps trying to either take Pirate Captain’s place or outright steal Polly for himself, being foiled by the fact that Pirate Captain is only HALF as stupid as he seems and thus either has clever counters to any way Darwin could present the bhird himsef, without realizing it no less, and foils a kidnapping attempt. I mean he’s still stubborn enough and stupid enough he can’t put two and two together that Charles wants the bird, to Number Two’s utter exasperation, but give him credit: Just because he’s an idiot dosne’t mean he’s not an experinced one as seen with refrences to previous adventures, from librarians to barbarians to that buisness in madagascar with an old pal they find hanging in a cage as a warning to pirates. 

Naturally said prize leads to Pirate Captain being discovered after he refuses to hand over Polly to the queen as she’s family... for now, and only escapes decaptatation because he hid the parrot, with the queen leaving it to Darwin to steal the bird. We also get a great scene of Darwing taking the captain, who was publicly pardoned, out , including Captain talking about who would win in a fight between a shark and a dracula and instructing Jane Austen to write it into her next book. God I would pay to see that. Also for the record since i’m nerdy, as for who would win: Using a regular vampire and a regular shark, a shark as most vampires can’t cross water and thus likely if pushed will sink. If it’s Dracula versus, let’s say Jaws to make it a fair fight as Jaws is both a big boy and more intellegent than a regular shark, if not thatna dracula, it’s a bhit more complicated as Dracula can shapeshift, so he may be able to become a shark himself, or simply turn into a fish after using his vampire powers on him. He coudln’t really use wolf form or mist obviously because water, but I do feel Dracula would win as he could lure jaws to land and simply get in his mouth via a smaller transfomratoin then turn bigger and tear up his insides, or tear his ass to pieces with pure strength and skill then shark his way up to the surface. 

Now we’ve covered the subject of Dracula fighting Jaws, and given Universal a VERY easy pitch for a jaws and dracula reboot, especially if Dracula rides Jaws at some point, Darwin says to hell with subtley and just tries to have his monkey Bobo threaten him at gunpoint. And Bobo is delight, a silent chimp who uses cards to talk, having to use one in lower caps to whisper and when noping out later leaving a trail of cards saying “Are you out of your #$@#%$ minds?”. 

A chase ensues which ends up with them in the tower of london and in front of the queen who literally dumps poor charles. We even get a great bit where Captain undrestands doing crazy shit for a girl.. though is UTTERLY baffled in Charles lack of taste. 

But soon is tempted by the ultimate shortcut to everything he wants: a shit ton of the queens gold in exchange for Polly.. and he gives her up, as he feels she’ll be fine. It’s also well done as while the protaganist doing something terrible and then it backfiring horribly for a short term gain is usualy in these movies this has been well set up: The captain has time and again chosen his own glory over the logical solution or his crew’s well being, and while it’s clear he loves them, it’s also clear he loves himself more and when choosing between the crew member he loves most (sorry Number Two) and his glory.. he picks the glory and looses everything: He has pirate of the year for all of a minute before Bellamy outs his pardon and BRIAN BLESSED STRIPS HIS TITLES, and the rest of the crew sadly abandon him. Even the use of the utterly great Flight of the Conchords song i’m not crying can’t undercut how sad it is. Again this is a pretty usual plot beat for a film.. but it’s been building all film. The pirate captain had been pushing his crew, just enough to make us not hate him but to be annoyed at him all the same, and they finally had enough. The captain, left with nothing and retiring to make baby clothes (And seeing Jane Austen hook up with the Elephant Man which is a crack ship I ddin’t know I needed), sees a sign of polly and realizes he NEEDS to save her. 

The bad news, as Charles, now a “tramp”, horrifiedly relays is that Polly has been taken from the Zoo.. by the queen. As he found out shortly after being dumped into the trash, literally, and as made him realize what a selfish horny ass he’d been (Charles can be a bit annoying at times i’ll admit but suffers enough slapstick especially in the last act to punish him for his actions, so it evf3ens out), as it turns out the Queen just wants to eat Polly and is part of a cabal of world leaders who secretly eat endangered species. And i’d honestly be shocked if there wreen’t a club like that back then let alone in present day. 

So the two go to steal the air ship to look down ladies tops save polly, and we get a heck of a third act as Uncle Sam reprsents america at the club. Yes really. It’s so stujpid I of course love it, stage a daring rescue and we get a GENUINELY tense fight between Captain and the Queen, who fucking dual wields. Thankfully darwin got the crew, who forgive captain since he’s making up for his actoins and they win the day, with The Queen ultimately sent away on a blimp while our heroes regain polly. 

As a result all ends well for our heroes: The captain is given the highest bounty ever of 100,000 pounds and is left a world fugivitive, and as a result is not only welcomed back into pirate town, as seen thorugh a bunch of credits scenes set to you can get it if you really want, but is happier that way. Darwin heads to the galapagos and possibly finds love, Bobo stays with the crew and Black Broddude gets his trophy taken by Brain Blessed and his magical flying clamshell. The rest of the credits rock out to the utterly awesome song Alright by Supergrass which fun fact, lives in my head rent free thanks to these credits and did so at the time of the film. 

So as you could probably guess I REALLY loved this film and the plot isn’t at all that serious and follows a pretty basic plot structure.. but it works because it’s just so damn creative and funny. It just throws tons of jokes at you, almost all of them clever ,and never really lets up for a moment. As a result there were WAY too many moments to recap here, from the Pirate Of the Year awards having BRIAN BLESSED as a vocal volume, to the mad scientest with a rubix cube who just throws it at the wall, to the ladies tops bit, there’s just so much here it’s great. The writing is witty, rapid fire and unabashidley ludcrious, not carring for period accuracy or common sense, just what’s funny and the actors all deliver it well.. again except piven. It’s the same kind of very british style as wallace and gromit but where as those films are subdued, this one goes full tilt bonkers and it works. 

Animation wise it may be Ardman’s Prettiest Film and despite it having been years since they got to do a stop motion feature, they hadn’t missed a step: The anmiation is agonizlingly gorgeous, goofy enough to fit the tone but still beautiful and painstaking and in such a high resolution you can see it quite clearly how beautiful it looks. It’s the sum total of their efforts

So yeah... WATCH THIS FILM. It’s currently not streaming but can be gotten on amazon  on dvd and on most digital platforms, and while that’s the us verison it at least has

So it’s not all bad. Find this film however you can and watch it. And if you enjoyed this review consider joining my patreon, dming me for my discord or following for more and see you tommorow for Muppet Treasure Island!

[amarantestarsxspacexsea-archived]

After Fenton said his piece, there was a beat of silence, the many "Drakes" looking at eachother and back at the nervous little thing. Jake is the first to laugh and speak.

"Man that was worth the ten bucks!" The likes of Jim and NegaDuck laughed along, with an amused gleam in the red glare of Darkwarrior, although did not smile.

With a cigarette in beak and a drink in his hand, the now orange flannelled mallard sauntered over to the fluffy duck, elbowing him playfully before adding:

"Do yourself a favor college, get a drink, the party's just beginin'."

Quiverwing, Bowling Ball and Darkwing Dubloon walked over, with Quiverwing acting as the crowd control.

"Hey, hey c'mon he just got here! The little guy probably just wants to relax with the kid huh?" 

True blue hues behind the green mask eyed the actor upon the couch, who got up, looking flustered as well, holding out a hand to his fiancé nervously.

"Heh- uh surprise? Mind me doing the honors?"

A Darkwing that looked eerily similar to Mozardvark sat near a grand piano that seemed to have come out of nowhere. Stretching out his fingers he aptly starts the melody, with two flying monkey Darkwings shining the spotlight on the young couple.

It’s Halloween night, everything is quiet and deathly still. Unknownst to the small scientist is a home full of ducks…or rather many versions of his beloved fiancé. Some are lying lazily on the tables, others talking amongst themselves. Fenton’s fiancé is notified by Quiverwing of Fenton coming in. So all Drakes/Darkwings are gathered in one spot in their own places.

As soon as Fenton would open the door, he would not only see his fiancé sitting on the couch waiting for him, there was also Jim, Quiver, Darkwarrior, NegaDuck and wouldn’t you know it, the original Darkwing himself!

All of them all at once, pose and seductively say, “Oh Fenton!~”

- ✩ { @infinitexdarkwings } ✩

{ ☆ } It had been a rather tiring day that had bled into an equally exhausting night… Unsurprisingly, with Halloween festivities in the air and cities still becoming accustomed to having crooks and super-villains of all kinds and vendettas roaming the streets when least suspected, citizens are on edge. Especially when all around them were suspicious costumes and the lines between the real and supernatural blurred to such a degree. So Gizmoduck had been tasked with relentlessly patrolling the city in order to help promote the idea that they are in good hands… and then when racing over to St.Canard— it had been a nightmare to get Mr. McDuck to agree on him having the rest of the night off —and his newfound home with his fiancé, he had been stopped by quite a few gaping onlookers.

And the press… but he’d rather forget about that part and pray that the television stays on topic of Horror Movie Marathons rather than any of the news channels. The last thing he wants is anything to sully Drake’s mood. He just wants a nice, refreshing Halloween consisting of festive foods, terrifying movies that he shall foolishly indulge in, and a bit of extra trick-or-treating with Gosalyn after she has returned from her first candy-conquest with the McDuck family… The perfect night with no strange occurrences or disasters or surprises.

❝  ¡Hola, mi Estrella! I’m ho—  ❞

… And the moment he steps into the door, Fenton is smacked with a surprise for the senses. Eyes widen instantly at the sight, initially taken aback by the sight of ALL the Drakes Darkwings gathered together inside of their home. Which an outsider may consider strange because of that fact alone, but thanks to his knowledge and experience with the multiverses, Fenton’s surprise is more the equivalent of a host who hadn’t been expecting guests… That is- until they speak.

Words that sound… intriguing when said in UNISON. 

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