From the stop-motion wizards at the British animation company Aardman (“Chicken Run,” “Wallace and Gromit”) comes “The Pirates! Band of Misfits,” a jolly tale of ambition, science and dodos on the ...

"The Pirates! Band of Misfits" is an airy, animated delight that I wish had been released when I was just a kid. It is a movie that, I am guessing, would have probably driven my parents nuts. The ...

Repetitious, tedious and pretty much joyless, "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" strains to reboot what was up until now a generally fun and always profitable cinematic enterprise. It's a ...