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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Entertainment
Todd Martens

'Return to Monkey Island' revives one of the most timeless of pirate franchises

There's an alternate, game-driven reality where the most famous pop-culture pirate of the 21st century isn't Jack Sparrow but is instead Guybrush Threepwood.

Both are good-natured and bumbling, and both have had to battle supernatural foes. Neither is a stereotypical pirate, each has had decent luck in the romance department, and the two have shared an appreciation of comic timing. And both too are original creations influenced by Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean.

But only one was just as handy with a rubber chicken as a sword.

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