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#6,881 All-time worldwide
#196 2008 releases

Movie profile

The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie

2008 · 85 min · Big Idea Productions

Adventure Animation Comedy Family Fantasy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $13.2M
Budget $15.0M
Gross minus budget -$1.8M
ROI 0.88x

Domestic gross

$5.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$7.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #6,881 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2008 releases #196 Release-year chart position of 247 titles Ranked against movies released in 2008. Studio / company #2 Big Idea Productions of 2 titles Position inside the mapped Big Idea Productions movie set. Primary genre #1,496 Adventure of 2,138 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

#6,878 Visiting Hours 1982 · $13.3M #6,879 Vice Squad 1982 · $13.3M #6,880 Trespass 1992 · $13.2M #6,882 Vidocq 2001 · $13.2M #6,883 The Mighty Quinn 1989 · $13.2M #6,884 The Words 2012 · $13.2M

Quick answer

How did The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie (2008) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie (2008) earned a reported $13.2M worldwide against a reported $15.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$1.8M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.88x. In this database it currently ranks #6,881 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #196 among 2008 releases.

Worldwide gross
$13,247,725
Budget
$15,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$1,752,275
ROI
0.88x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

A boatload of beloved VeggieTales pals embark on a fun and fresh pirate adventure with their trademark humor and silly songs in The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything - A VeggieTales Movie! Larry the Cucumber, Mr. Lunt and Pa Grape find themselves on the ride of their lives when they are mysteriously whisked back to the time when pirates ruled the high seas.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jan 11, 2008
Production
Big Idea Productions, Universal Pictures, Starz Animation
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyBig Idea Productions Release year chart2008 box office Genre chartAdventure Genre chartAnimation Genre chartComedy Genre chartFamily

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2008, The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie is positioned in this dataset as a Adventure, Animation, Comedy title from Big Idea Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $13.2M, reported production budget is $15.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$1.8M, ROI is 0.88x. For comparison, it currently sits #6,881 all-time in the current chart set and #196 among 2008 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.