Where It All Began

Last night I watched a movie that I'm sure was one of my early influences in my love of musicals. I hadn't seen this movie in at least 15 years, if not closer to 20 but one of the songs had always stuck in my head.

Cinematically, the movie is pure B movie, and while the story is lacking the movie itself is captivating, with 100% 80's style songs and crude low-brow humor. My type of humor.

The movie is "The Pirate Movie" a spoof of the Pirates of Penzance with references to even more pop culture movies of the time. It is now on DVD and while utter crap, this was one of the first musicals I ever remember seeing and as I watched it last night all the memories of the first times I saw it came flooding back to me. It's at least worth a rental, or once I get my copy, I'll let anyone borrow it to increase this movie's cult following.