Noutions Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

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

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

bigverybadtom I remember when the movie came out, every critic hated it, so I didn't watch it. Until years later, my then-supervisor at work told us he saw and liked it, so I rented it. I didn't find the movie the abomination the critics said it was, but I didn't find it a laugh riot either.The plot is thin: the title character is a pirate released from prison, having hidden a hoard of his treasure on a remote island, and a variety of people pursue him as he goes after said treasure. There are some funny moments, but no big laughs, and there is a big variety of comic actors in the movie, yet the script doesn't allow them to shine. Passable, but at best only mildly amusing.

O2D You would think a movie with this many hilarious actors would be side splittingly funny. You would be wrong. While it's not a bad movie, you would probably not realize that it's a comedy if someone else hadn't told you. It's no surprise that someone who is a huge fan of Cheech & Chong and Nigel Planer has never heard of this until today. If you like those guys or Monty Python you will enjoy this movie. If you want some hard laughs, look elsewhere.

Charles McGrew This movie could have been great, and it certainly shows flashes of brilliance. But they are flashes only (and generally in the use of language -- probably written by Peter Cook), and are separated by tiresome pirate-based skits that (kind of) hang together. My rating of 6 is for the flashes, and not the tiresome-ness.Cheech Marin and Peter Boyle dig into their parts and play with gusto, but everybody else seems to be sort of standing around a lot and saying things to get us to the next scene of people standing around. James Mason plays Charles Laughton gamely, but Marty Feldman is mostly wasted. John Cleese seems to be acting in an entirely different movie all together. The best line (by Spike Milligan) is spoken by a character not even given a name. A shame, really.

Python504 When 'Yellowbeard' was first released to the public in 1983, it was greatly attacked the film. From what the critics where saying about this film, one would think this was the worse film in creation. Nothing couldn't be farther from the truth, it's actually pretty enjoyable. The movie has probably aged pretty well from being a hated flop to a cult classic.The movies plot is pretty simple. It tell the story of the most-feared pirate in history Yellowbeard (Graham Chapman, 'Monty Python') is taken out of prison after 20 years (for tax evasion). Before he escapes, he is told by his wife (Madeline Kahn, 'Blazing Saddles') that he is the father of a boy named Dan. He also learns that the only map in existence to his sought after treasure is tattooed to Dan's head. There they, along with others, embark on a quest to find the treasure.The movie has a wonderful cast, along with a witty (yet non hilarious) screenplay make this an enjoyable pirate adventure.(Note: while 'PG', this movie contains much nudity, and a ship-load of raping jokes.)