Monkey island play part I

[TheFirstClassLounge]

Pfah! We did A clockwork orange for our high school play

[80vitali]

Very good job, wonderful!!! ;)

[madddhowze]

This is awesome! I can't get enough of it!

[zukzuky1]

This Is Just Awesome!!! I love it, it's really good!

[DJHeroMist]

You know its meh, im not a big downer to games and such, but you guys really make the games look bad... no offence... but really? im sorry, you should of did COMI

[hal9khal]

people who played it are probably different generation :)

[mythril9]

Real pirates don't go around screaming "Yar", only wannabe pirates...

[AngelusDlion]

@mythril9 I think that's the joke...

[EmilioIsMyName]

"did he stick all these things inside his pants?"

hahaha i laughed loud

[tarcs]

whats that with this fucking YARRRRGH? its gruesome!

[DevilShroom]

Ah don't worry about the haters, I saw this about two years ago and I think it's one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen! Haha

[mlorencetti]

If you actually played the original MI1 you know you can make Guybrush scream YAAAAARRRR to a bunch of people. Nice play.

[Ascyltos]

I actually think that the original Leisure Suit Larry would be an epic stage play...

[willscomix]

um, why does guybrush scream at everyone?

[Ciappoz]

nice try but guybrush is not a character that goes around screaming

[Rishro29]

only ppl who have played the game get it basically. Lmao. <3 i think its creative!

[JRYStudios1]

SHING! SHOVEL SHOVEL!

[somegermangeek]

Guybrush is badly cast - he is not blond and he has no pigtail :-p

[windh]

nice try, but for anyone who doesn´t know the game, this is... not very good.. :)

[guitarmad89]

bad actors

[amurrican]

Did... Did he just stick all his things down his pants?

[shifre]

I love you guys for this! This is awesome!

Whose bright idea (not sarcastic)??

[Codestyle1234]

this is mad cool.. great on whoever made this

[melieluvms101]

this is actually really good!! i actually laughed out loud when he ripped off the dead guys arm!!

[shiramonderer]

You guys are so cute for making this. Guybrush's screaming could work better if everyone would treat it with more shock and sarcasm. The play is such a great idea!!

[YonderVillas]

amazing!

[UltraSonicTH]

YARR??!?!? since when did guybrush go around shouting YARR?

[dingetje]

I wonder how Guybrush is going to keep all the items in his pants:)

[Kitaleykat]

@dingetje His pants are pants of infinite holding!

[ChesterGreeklish]

Shing! Shovel shovel ^_^

[jokule81]

Yeah he does, haven't you played Lair of the Leviathan?

ARRRRRRR its the fish eyed.... stinking... gomer

[LDreamerDude]

@jokule81 Yeah but this was made three years before ToMI was released so before that.. he didn't go around shouting ARRRR :P Stinky..Crosseyed..Meanie!

[LazerLuger]

I'm sorry, but this isn't a very good adaptation. Threepwood doesn't go around shouting YARRR!!!

[FilipH86]

your wrong if it is so bad then how come it got the go ahead from lucas arts themselves

[CapitanFortuna]

incredible idea

[thacco]

It's Awsome

A very great work! You're Great!!!

[Shiningfan]

I loved the joke about Guybrush's inventory.

[daveproyoyoyo]

No actually the Pirates of the Caribbean movies were inspired by Monkey Island almost completely. Several years ago there was a Monkey Island film comishioned by Lucas Arts employing writter Ted Elliot who also worked on the games. The movie was then scrapped and nothing happened for a while untill disney decided to make the potc films guess who the writter is? Ted Elliot. Have you not noticed similaritys to MI1? Ghost pirates, voodo ladies that kind of thing.

[TheRedGoldfish]

i went and watched this play and it was awsome, although the actors never even heard of mi however they thought it was brilliant after performing it

[sirengland2003]

lol i actually watched this few months coz i never got really play 1st game i kinda wish i didnt coz i got remake the other day and like had alot spoilers but they did good job shame they never made 2nd one

[apex2000]

the play based on the game, inspired by the disney ride... which later got its own line of films.

and im still not sure which i like better.

this play awesome... someone make a film !

[the5y5tem]

I think you're getting mixed up with pirates of the caribbean here...

[darkyoda]

Pirates of the caribbean did actually inspire this. Though Monkey Island was inspired as a parody of the Pirates ride and movie.

[RichHartshorn]

the original Monkey Island game came more than a decade before the pirates of the caribbean movies..

[darkyoda]

However, the Pirates of the Caribbean ride came out back in 1964 in Disneyland out in California. THAT ride, which was recreated in Disney World, is what the movie is based off of, and what Monkey Island is a tongue in cheek parody of.

[RichHartshorn]

Totally true; no arguments there. It's also interesting that the movies, which came out later, have certain subtle nods to Monkey Island. Ongoing mutual tributes.

[TandemTopiary]

Actually, Monkey Island was mainly based off of On Stranger Tides. The ride was more an inspiration for the ambiance than anything.

[apex2000]

they should get back together and film in with mics etc. this more compellin that many real films

[malakaijub]

heard this was coming out on 360 arcade

[nicknick55555]

Its out now for a nice 800 points.

[malakaijub]

good stuff

[smashforhit]

lol at 09:00

[Chukkz2]

Very great stage production, I think you made the best out of it... also clever way to get around of some of the puzzles which would be boring to show. 5/5

[mangethegamer]

They should use microphones

[darkyoda]

Schwing sparkle sparkle!

[kingsneverdie]

awesome.. my boyhood love of Monkey Island brought to life.. should totally make big budget films of the old school games, like this, maybe Full Throttle and Day of the Tentacle

[Chukkz2]

Back then my fav amiga games magazine had an aprils fool, they said Lucasfilm are making a Monkey Island movie and people should send photos of them dressed as pirates... First price a role in it. XD

[ChaoticShelly]

I just hope it won't be as annoying to play as 4 T__T

[analogd347h]

1. AWESOME!!!

2. new game? MORE AWESOME

3. i had this idea in 95' but was laughed out off broadway...

this will show em!

[GigaBoost]

Fuck year! Thanks for uploading this.

[Mort1c1an]

You missed the Arf Arf LeChuck part, what a shame

[batu256]

Thats AMAZİNG!!!! good job guys =D

[Ascyltos]

You thought about converting any other adventure games to plays?

Methinks the original "Leisure Suit Larry" would go well.

[tredlow]

Grim Fandango would be cooler, in my opinion. Though it would require an extensive budget.

[TheOneofMany411]

greatest game ever played! good job!

[bloodrunsclear]

Great work here! You managed to capture the spirit of the characters I think.

[Mrmoc7]

Actually this is pretty good. I'm a college senior about to write a play, and I'm afraid mine is going to be 100x worse than this. I'm a fucking Biology major okay? I don't know shit about theater!

Gah!

[maidmcostumer]

This is far from perfect, but has some pretty good actors, and not a bad script. It could use improvements, but for a high school production it's not bad, and they obviously had a lot of fun doing it.

[Hairysteed]

hmm... I thought Guybrush was supposed to buy the sword and the shovel from the store?

[jamesoriley]

This must have been hard to convert to theater, It could be better but that's easy for me to say, I'm a huge fan of the games but I would not be able to turn it into a play! Keep up the good work...

[Take4ScriptFilms]

Nice

[NowherePoet]

how come you guys are mostly barefoot through this?

[Kjolan]

Damn, they should have added in the secret ingredients to grog. maw well...

[umts86]

wow troppo carino ..monkey island :D!!! dovrebbero farci un film!!

[bitzrider]

Oddio... ma è bellissimo!!!

[SJSublimeJustice]

god you guys suck real bad I mean come on you suck like big eggs

[DLFerrariFan]

this sucks. When you put a bunch of douche bags (who probably never even PLAYED the game) in a play-version of it, it's going to suck. What a waste of time

[SleepyKitsune]

Thumbs up for the attempt, and excellent editing of the game into a play - from a fan of the game, I think this is fantastic, as a fan of theater, it could use some work... which isn't going to stop me from watching the rest of this...

[zerglingseb]

Too much yelling.

[Neish34141700]

The idea of all these doesn't belong to LucasArts, it belonged to LucasFilm

[knight007au]

It's the same company.

[robearth]

it belongs in a museum!

[Mayhemkid505]

loved it

[xcracker90]

que mierda!

that shit!

[scorch8282]

lmao, i don't think the audience gets it

[Retronomicon]

@scorch8282 I don't think anyone gets it. Even I was confused...

[mrtrench]

im just jelous that

[Elstir]

Idea's good, but that's still amateurism.

[dream3vil]

Maybe, but it was still awesome.

[Thib09]

That's a fucking great idea. I love Monkey Island !

[jammydodgerbaby85]

hahaha! It's good so far. Mancomb Seepgood! XD I'm sure Guybrush gets called Seepgood at some point. Guybrush kind of reminds me of Topher Grace. I laugh harder everytime Guybrush goes YAAAAAAARRRRRGH!!!

[joshmfleet]

oh, no cannon trick!

[wrestlerone45]

Never say that again

[Elbar982]

mmm it was good.. but.. i dont know, it doesnt have the scent of monkey island, tough. But, o well, it not a bad play

[Mange42]

That was great guys!

[TomTheH]

Guybrush is too bold, hes not geeky enough :P

But its good anyhow (Y)

[tuttilorenzo]

the show is awesome..

GREAT JOB GUYS!

..w abandonware, retrogaming and of course Monkey Island and fuck a big part of the rest! =P

[K4nu]

You are so wrong. You obviously don't know what MI is about.. It's not about gameplay and awesome graffics as you surely like. It's about the houmor, the characters and the world itself..

And ofc you can miss a game... I too can miss a game, even though I'm not "many years old".

[Mrster]

Where did you get that Lucasarts-cup-thingyma-gig?!

[comicheroin]

Aw, that was sweet. Although, they took away some of Guybrush's innocent and clumsy behavior. Guybrush would never yell YARGH!! he would be more like...Yargh?

*End of geek mode*

[alessandrovalentini]

ggggooooooooooooooood

[Kirkwuk]

I really enjoyed this, Monkey Island would make an excellent comedy play in theatres. I think some of the action was a bit rushed but bravo as this raised a smile.

[Cristel]

Shing! Shovel, shovel! They really messed up the plot. It's not the same as the game, and Guybrush doesn't even have a ponytail. I can't believe they left out the old shop keeper.

[TranscendentLion]

He does in the Curse of Monkey Island.

[hland]

that sucks

[DihDin]

LOL at 08:16-08:18

[Wiilovewii]

OMG! OMG! Nothing more I can say...brilliant!

[darkmegrim]

Let's hope Uwe Boll learns something of this...

[Luke1337]

Dont they spell guybrushs name wrong in the game? I missed that. =/

[Coop626]

To "TheHaz666" you are a fool!

[Darthinian]

The bartender at the beginning sounds like he could have played that American Dealer who wears that tacky jacket. His name escapes me right now...Was it Dealer Dan?

[Twitcher730]

Stan

[MiketheMutant1993]

Are you talking about the guy who sells Guybrush a ship at the end of Part One in the first Monkey Island game? If so, that guy's name is Stan.

[doppleganger4827]

Love that someone did this! LOLed about the pants part. Good memories. I see that some of the people here are bashing the guy playing Guybrush, but I think he does a great job. Wouldn't put bets on it, but a MI2 play would be great to see.

[discoder]

Good stuff. I'd like to see their take on Monkey Island 2 or Curse of Monkey Island (especially as to somebody playing Murray)

[tuaregwfc]

I'm an actor. Always the performance from a book, a movie or a game is always worse than originall. Of course. But this ia a good adaptation. You can critices the performance form actors but not the adaptaiton from the ghame

[TheHaz666]

I am sorry... for me. I can't believed I watched this. It ruined the whole essense of the game. Seriously, absolutaly appauling. This game should NOT be performed on stage. I have written a script based on the first three games and I have to say, after watching this, my confidence has boost greatly in my effort. The accents are appauling... and I am not talking about the pirate accents, I am talking about those annoyingly strong american ones.

[PeterWDawson]

What do you expect? It's a low-level play, I'd be surprised if the accents sounded semi-authentic.

[TheHaz666]

Low-level is right.

[thepurplegerbil]

Zuperr!!! I love monkey island, there's some nice little additions in the play, and it even held my attention to watch a few parts, very good guys.

[Israfel85]

I lol'd

[Abelol]

I don't understand all the viewers who're bashing Guybrush's actor.

I think he was almost dead-on character. He had the right looks and kept true to Guybrush's slow paced and calm personality. Also, he Topher Grace like voice was similar to GB's voice talent from the 3rd and 4th part.

So this guys wasn't a professional, neither of them were. Its just a high school play, and a damn good one at that.

[Abtagonic]

Just like you sound very, very bitter about Stan character. And, as I said, I really didn't like the guy playing Guybrush. Maybe this is NOT a dumb character, it is? Just opinion. Bitter is the play, not me.

[TiMBO668]

A++ for the effort! (You know what I mean, right?) Also, I hate LucasFilm for being such greedy corporate bastards. I'm wondering how they ever made a game about pirating... Har Har.

[xoxoxoxowwwz]

legend

[TheArbiter91]

simpatici :D

[Abtagonic]

It could be much better. Didn't like the Stan actor.

[LordAudio]

After reading your comment i cant possibly watch anymore, Stan is the heart and soul of MI ;P

[Abtagonic]

Well, the WHOLE play could be better. Stan actor is just something that bothers me a lot, cause he's destroying a character I really apreciate. Besides, Guybrush (heart and soul of MI) actor and costume do SUCKS, IMO.

[SashaNein]

BITCH BITCH BITCH.

[Abtagonic]

OK. The play is WONDERFUL! Your very smart words made a revolution in my criticism.

Are you happy now?

[SuicidalSam]

yeah your right it was inspired by pirates of the carribean ride you can see the similarities in them mostly in the second

[dougydixon]

OMG I LOVE THIS GAME ITS JUST LIKE IT!!!

[domtar76]

This play is unfaithful to how I played the game. I just pressed ALT-w (or was it ALT-win) and won the game.

[emrahsenel]

I totally agree. The adventure game ever...

[n1ghtw0lf81]

somebody in drama class was a harcore 90's PC gamer. this is frickin awesome. i wish these guys could get a budget and make it into a film. monkey island = best game ever made since beginning of time, by the way.

[zerglingseb]

They did make it into a film: "Pirates of the Carribean." >:P Bunch of thieves Disney is.

[TauProductions]

To be fair, the Monkey Island games were heavily inspired by the original POTC ride at Disneyland, so it's only fair that the POTC films be inspired by Monkey Island. :P

[zerglingseb]

OMGZ Proof?

[Elementroar]

I think Ron Gilbert did say in several interviews that the Pirates of the Carribean ride was a heavy inspiration.

Also, he said if he had thought of a tentacle-beard like Davy Jones has, he'd make LeChuck have one too.

Gotta admit, that tentacle-beard is cool.

[0cscott]

Monkey island is the best game in existance. just so everyone knows

[ISeeDeadPixels]

At the start of Monkey Island before your allowed to play you're asked when was a pirate hanged. Im stuck and i haven't even started the game. Help?

[feonor26]

haha...I think it was very good, don't think you have to be familiar with the game to find it funny although you understand the jokes better :) "Did he just stick all that down his pants?" :D

[SmilingScilence]

eh. it could have been a lot better. actors weren't very good. also kinda wish they had put the Grog ingredients in there...

[lasthorizon25]

it seems like the audience didn't really understand a lot of the jokes. i guess it only makes sense if you know the game, because i thought a lot of it was hilarious.

[Morphindel]

Hehe very good. Even though most of the funniest parts are the stuff written by the writers it did make me chuckle :)

[DarkSlushie]

Hehe...this is awesome. I wish our school could do this!

[Kobrazell]

Terrible terrible Guybrush...

[newpaws]

how much did lucas arts charge you for the cup eh!?? you're all stupid you have no idea how companies work to rip u off and screw us for our money. its coz of YOU that we all pay so much. the end!

[n1ghtw0lf81]

what kind of paranoia is this? sure there are evil corporations with corrupt business practices in the world, but that's hardly a reason to call people stupid for buying a cup. LucasArts did amazing things for the video game world.

[EverlasTinGtube]

please guys, its amateur... dont go so hard on them... and I besidesi think its been done great. It sure got the spirit of MI :)

[technob]

the acting aint tht bad but who cares it monkey island it could be finger puppets for all i care and it wud still b the greatest thing ever

[jyhash]

From what I read on the MI Wiki, the director/writer had to go through hell and high water to get this play put on, working with LucasArts to get the rights and everything. And for a high school play, the kids are pretty good, and the script is pretty spot on. I can only watch so much high school theatre (terrible when it's your job direct, isn't it?), but I'm pleased with the execution. Except for their inexperience, I'd say that this was a very professional show. Good job!

[patronise]

Monkey Island for a school play? That's extracurriculariffic!

It's just a shame Guybrush doesn't have his award winning charm (and unmistakable accent). Still, A+ for effort.

[VideoGuy87]

This video is great. loved it. Monkey island Forever!!!

[Hagelnot]

you played the whole monkey island xD

haha great!!!

:D

[charcoalfeather]

*shing* *shovelshovel* lol this looks like a fun play. better actors would've helped but its still pretty good... even tho im not sure ppl who nvr played monkey island would enjoy it that much

[DoeJohnson]

it is done rather badly, but i still love it! i just wish another game would come out...

[matredman]

Its a great effort. Respect to anyone involved with bringing this to the masses. This needs to be made by older actors, it should go into bigger production. I'd love to cast this play.

[Mojofilter17]

How is it the worst actor there was cast as Guybrush!?

[Boxketeer]

A great idea, but the excecution is simply horrendous. Worst acting i've ever seen.

[protonmonkey]

Well, you have to give them a little credit..... The director said none in the cast had even heard of the Monkey Island series.

[fodland]

i have to go to USA once to watch this...

[TheHande]

Long live Monkey Island!

[MrRomanticSmartGuy]

Awesome!

[benmols]

ha i thought that was great.