Do you want to laugh already? Then laugh now, before you see this dispiritingly unfunny pirate movie. Later, it's difficult. Very brief moments only, I'm afraid. [25 Sep 1983, p.19]
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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The Associated Press by Bob Thomas
Yellowbeard is a puzzlement. How could so many comedic talents produce such a mirthless movie? [27 Jun 1983]
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The New York Times by Lawrence Van Gelder
What Yellowbeard establishes is that for even the funniest of performers, a good script may be as essential as pitching is to baseball.
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Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
There's a funny line or two, a fetching performance by Stacey Nelkin as a young wench, some nonsense about a buried treasure, and then Yellowbeard is soon over and soon forgotten.