The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything

Is there any point in watching the animated vegetables if they don't explicitly push religion, as they do in their videos? Turns out, there is.

The movie has a couple of masterfully catchy songs that kids will soon be repeating ad infinitum: They're raucous, and packed with one-liners.

It's wholesome fun for the whole family, and any adult who's seen that one very sick, very wrong episode of Comedy Central's Drawn Together will have an extra reason to laugh.

Strange thoughts can occur when watching a movie populated entirely by vegetables. For instance, do Veggie Pirates get scurvy or beriberi?

It's agreeably silly fare for the very small set and not so noisy that parents can't either follow along or take a quick nap.

Just enough unassuming cleverness to keep you from checking your watch while the little people in your company get wrapped up in the color and clamor.

No life lesson will be left out of this universe when it comes to learning self-confidence from fruits and vegetables.

That's an appealing message that even young children can grasp intuitively, and it's delivered -- albeit by a cucumber, grape and other edible creatures -- with a fair amount of flair and wit.

It's a much better film than the last big-screen Veggie outing, with good-looking character design, catchy songs, a wisecracking script and more skillfully disguised messages.

To all parents, The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything is a great flick if you want your kids to feel good about themselves and eat their vegetables at dinner.

The saving grace of the VeggieTales series has always been its silly songs and surreal humor, but little of either are on display here.

Where’s Capt. Jack Sparrow when you need him? Pirates Who Don't Do Anything almost live up to their name in this second and equally unseaworthy VeggieTales Movie.

Aside from the fun musical scenes, the script is pretty lackluster, and the animation could generously be described as old-fashioned.

Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of … V8? That’s what you get when you cross VeggieTales characters with a pirate yarn.

Parents hunting for something safe and watchably fun for younger tykes will be relieved to know that at least the 'Tales are as clean and cute as ever.

Obviously, the movie is aimed squarely at young kids, so adults looking for jokey "mature"-minded references should know they're few and far between.

Veggie Tales is a faith-based franchise that uses a blend of a religious/moral message and humor to teach about honesty and forgiveness. But Pirates lacks the humor of the videos and A Veggie Tales Movie.

As for the much-touted kid-friendly morality that is the pride and joy of the series, good luck finding it buried amidst the shaggy-dog storyline, inane dialogue, and repeated demonstrations of idiocy among the heroes.

The CGI animation is crude, the humor is cruder, and the plot is Christian-friendly. Proceed at your own risk.