Exclusive! New Pirates! Trailer

Let's have An Adventure With ScientistsAh, Aardman, those comic geniuses from way out West (only not as West as Hollywood). The latest trailer for Pirates!In AnAdventure With Scientists gives us a few more clues about the plot, and by our rough count about seventy bajillion more gags, both visual and aural. HughGrant voices the Pirate Captain - seen here meeting the dastardlyQueen Victoria (Imelda Staunton) who is Not Amused - who leads his merry but less-than-totally-competent band of bucanneers around the seas in search of treasure and, preferably, the Pirate Of The Year award (modelled in this trailer by BrianBlessed's Pirate King). Things, it's fair to say, do not go entirely to plan.The cast also includes David Tennant, Brendan Gleeson, SalmaHayek, Jeremy Piven, Martin Freeman,AshleyJensen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and RussellTovey. It's all based on the first two of Gideon Defoe's Pirates!books, and directed by Aardman stalwart Peter Lord with co-director Jeff Newitt.You can read more from Lord himself on the film in the guest blogs he's written for us here and here. The film's out on March 28 next year, and we'll be following all the developments between now and then. This is some seriously funny stuff and, it almost goes without saying, gorgeous animation.