Pirates of the Great Salt Lake

Kirk: Do you know what our problem is?
Flint: Financing sir?
Kirk: No, it's that damn Johnny Depp.

An obscure film but beloved within its cult following, Pirates of the Great Salt Lake is the heart-warming tale of two modern would be pirates... wandering around the Great Salt Lake.

A 2006 Mollywood comedy, we follow two out-of-luck schmoes as they sail row across the Lake, attempting to plunder and ravage modern Utah, only to find that they're not very successful. When they just so happen to find a genuine treasure map, their luck changes ...from bad to worse.

Tropes used in Pirates of the Great Salt Lake include:

Kirk: I think he's talking to that grove of trees...

Flint: We're Lewis and Clarke!
Kirk: Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer!
Flint: We're Siegfried And Roy!
Kirk:...No we're not.

  • Identical Stranger: Many of the actors play multiple parts, not just as a money-saving technique but for definite laughs.
  • Inspector Javert: Detective Anderson
  • Magical Native American: The Narrator. Played for laughs, although the ending hints he might be an angel. Or maybe just nuts.
  • Mood Whiplash The movies makes a fast turn to the dramatic when Drake murders Kirk and then swings back when Kirk reappears as a ghost two minutes later.
  • Theme Park Version: Kirk and Flint take most of their cues from old pirate movies, but do get the griminess right. Later when Drake dresses up as part of a scam, he takes this Up to Eleven with something he obviously bought from a cheap costume store.
  • The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
  • Rule of Funny
  • Talk Like a Pirate
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