Well the BBC review was right. It wasn’t very good, it was too long and I’m still not sure what happened.
Plus no one seemed to have any understanding of how to run a naval engagement. Any pirate worth his salt would have raked the ships before attempting a slugging match with broadsides. Yes - it was that bad that I was left considering the merits of naval tactics.
The only thing the dancing/marriage/fight scene at the end needed was Craig Revel Horwood turning up to give a score of 2 and description of heinous.
Shiver me timbers!