It took a bottle of red but I clawed my way through "The Pirate Movie" last night and it's lost none of its charms. In fact it may be worse than I remembered it. The songs (that weren't reworked Gilbert and Sullivan) had a certain 80s synth ballad charm and Christopher Atkins did oblige the viewer with a lot of skin. Come the finale, when the chorus were merrily singing "Give me a happy ending every time", I certainly felt like I had earned one.