Yellowbeard | 
| Director: Mel Damski
Actors: Graham Chapman, Peter Boyle, Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Peter Cook
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  152 reviews
Sales Rank: 5433
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Japanese (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 96 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: MGMD14968D
UPC: 027616149688
EAN: 0027616149688
ASIN: B000FDEV48
Theatrical Release Date: June 24, 1983
Release Date: June 27, 2006
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Product Description
Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 06/27/2006 Run time: 96 minutes Rating: Pg
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Yellowbeard, a comedy cast with the all-star comedians of the 1980s, is a unique, corny spoof on pirate films. Like a Mel Brooks movie, Yellowbeard's plot is a series of ridiculous events, a la Airplane, circulating around Yellowbeard's (Graham Chapman) discovery that he has an "intellectual" son. Brain versus brawn is the film's theme, as Yellowbeard is forced to take his kid on a booty-hunt, since the pirate's ex-wife, Betty (Madeline Kahn), tattooed the treasure map on their child's head. As the bumbling British, including Harvey "Blind" Pew (John Cleese) and Gilbert Murvin (Marty Feldman), sail The Royal Navy Frigate to trail Yellowbeard's ship, The Lady Edith, The Spanish Main, captained by El Nebuloso (Tommy Chong) and El Segundo (Cheech Marin) follows in close pursuit. Three ships in constant battle on the open seas make for multiple comedic situations reminiscent of Monty Python. Directed by Mel Damski (Charmed, Lois & Clark), Yellowbeard has a made-for-TV cheesiness, though the talent of the actors, not to mention its off-kilter British humor, rescues the film from utter stupidity. --Trinie Dalton
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 Unedited Version Needed June 7, 2009
William M. Robertson (SALINAS, CA United States)
The American film release was heavily edited for content; what we need is the British version of the film, which had much more adult humor than one could even imagine. Then, you will see a timeless classic that represents the Monty Python sense of humor we all know and love. Until then, this film is merely average, as much of the humor is lost.
 An underrated semi-classic May 14, 2009
M2 (Glendale, CA United States)
When it was first released in 1983, critics keel-hauled this cracked version of "Treasure Island," but time has been very kind to "Yellowbeard." The once-in-a-lifetime cast is phenomenal. The film brings together the Goons (via Spike Milligan); Beyond the Fringe (Peter Cook, who was also the co-scenarist); the Pythons (Graham Chapman, who plays the lead and cowrote the script, Eric Idle, and John Cleese, who is terrific as "Blind Pew"), the Mel Brooks stock company (Madeline Kahn--who's great!--Peter Boyle, and Kenneth Mars), Cheech and Chong (the latter of whom for some reason does a Daffy Duck immitation), and Marty Feldman, who bridges all groups (and who tragically died during the filming). Add to this lineup legit British actors James Mason, Michael Hordern and Beryl Reid, and a host of familiar face cameos, including Peter Bull, Bernard Fox, Ferdy Mayne, and David Bowie, and you have one of the most incredible casts of all time! (Only the Carry-Ons were left out.) Anchoring it all is Martin Hewitt, who at the time was the cinema-heartthrob-dejour and as such was Dangerfielded by all the critics, but who is really very good in the Jim Hawkins-surrogate role. The film is consistently funny and batty as hell, fueled by that bizarre, rather subtle and surreal British humor. It's not perfect (director Mel Damski's staging of gags miss the mark as often as they hit it), but the combined efforts of Kahn, Feldman, Cook, Cleese, Idle and Mason are more than worth the price. One consideration for parents: PG in 1983 meant something quite different than PG today. These days PG signifies an animated Disney film, but "Yellowbeard" contains enough bare boobies, raw language and suggestive dialogue as to qualify for a modern soft-R.
silly pirate movie November 19, 2008
D. K. Stokes
This silly pirate movie was in my younger son's Easter basket. (Now that they've got too many stuffed animals already outgrown stuffed animals, they get DVDs for occasions like Easter and St. Nicholas Day.)
Ruthless pirate Yellowbeard (Graham Chapman) discovers that his son Dan (Martin Hewitt), on whose head he'd tatooed the map to his treasure, is an intellectual. Everyone from the Navy to his old crew is on a race to find the treasure, leading to the classic "stagger, stagger, crawl" directions.
Madeline is in her usual hilarious form as Dan's mother, and Cheech & Chong outdo themselves in silliness as El Segundo and El Nebuloso, respectively. In fact, all the vast cast of comedic actors seem to be just as amusing as usual.
So I'm not sure why it fell flat for me. Look through my movie reviews--I love silly and cheesy. The all-star cast should have done the trick, and certainly most people seem to think it worked. I think it was the plot, of which there wasn't much.
I love silly, but I need there to be a point to it. Otherwise, it's just a bunch of people running around doing silly things, and that's entertaining for a while, but then it just gets boring.
I am glad I saw it, if only so I can repeat and paraphrase those treasure map directions ad nauseum. I just would have been happier if I'd rented it rather than purchasing it.
As for the son whose gift it was, he got impatient with it before I did. I think that's because he wasn't as familiar with the all-star cast, and thus wasn't as willing as I was to give them the benefit of the doubt at the beginning... at least I think he did. He's 12. Sometimes he'll forego an honest critique in favor of scathing sarcasm just because he finds the latter more amusing.
 A classic parody September 6, 2008
Richard J. Windisch (USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
A great cast, original writing and a Treasure Island based parody make this movie a classic. Marty Feldman in one of his best.
comedy mania July 25, 2008
Ronald Sheargold (Canberra Australia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie is the ultimate level of the Monty Python genre, which also includes a host of other major comics, marty feldman and cheech and chong, to name a few. Their antics are beyond superlatives, the comedy is racey/saucy but genuinely funny. The sets are tremendous as is the acting, there should have been a sequel.
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