The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure (2022) Dual Audio [English Dubbed & Korean] WEB-DL 1080p 720p 480p [HD]

The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure is a wacky, high-octane swashbuckling adventure full of cartoonish action and silly gags. It is nothing we haven’t seen before but has an entertaining infectious energy if you go along with it. South Koreans are masters of every genre, they’ve been making the best movies on the planet for 20 years now. Every genre that is but comedy. Either that or their taste in humor is just different than hours and they prefer physical comedy and facial expressions three notches above what we’d consider too much even in theatre acting. Too bad, since the script isn’t terrible and had potential.

When I saw a brand new South Korean pirate movie on Netflix, I was immediately intrigued. Movies made at sea are rare and far between. Pirate movies are practically an endangered film genre. With its rising popularity around the world, I was doubly curious to see what a South Korean pirate movie would be like.

The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure is one wacky motion picture. Or in some ways, it may be easier to think of it as a live-action cartoon with attention-deficit disorder. The tone is part-cartoon, part-wuxia and part-historical epic; where whales swallow people and shoot them out of their blowholes… only to be saved by them slamming against a ship’s sails.

Lead actor Kang Ha-neul’s bandit screams his lines with big gaping laughs into the sky like a possessed cartoon character, or a younger Korean version of Toshiro Mifune from Seven Samurai. Lead actress Han Hyo-joo is the cool-headed captain leading her crew of misfits and fools. The villains, who are government officials and soldiers with stern faces, feel like they’re in a more serious historical epic in a completely separate movie.