Piet Piraat en het vliegende schip

Or, Pirate Pete and the flying ship, as I think the international title would be. This is a Belgian children's film with the characters from a TV series. For those that know the series: this is more of that, just longer. For those that don't know the series: Piet is the captain of a pirate ship that is further manned by the strong Stien as the female driver, the mute Steven as the ships help, and the rotund cook Berend. Together they sail the oceans and live their adventurous lives of blood- and violence free Pirates (for this is a children's series, meant to be watched by children of all ages) In this specific adventure they come across an overly large ship and find that its crew has been turned to stone. Piet falls in love with the captain of the new found ship and so they go out to rescue the petrified crew. To do this they will have to fly the ship.

It is a typical children's film. No blood, no gore, no violence, but a lot of fun for the children that like the series - including my nephew who wanted to see it and tagged me along as the guardian). It is rather short, but I guess stretching it any further would have been making its story spread even thinner and that wouldn't work either.

Fun enough I guess.

6 out of 10 pirates of the North Sea