Rick found himself thinking about pirates, and happened to noticeJackBakerslapping Lron on the back, whileKaren raised her eyes inan imploring gesture.
The director, Joe Dante, and his team (which includes the screenwriter Charlie Haas and the effects supervisor RickBaker) have made a multimillion-dollar, special-effects-crammed picture that has the loose, improvisatory feel of the great Warner Brothers cartoons of the forties and fifties.