Skeleton Pirates (James and the Giant Peach)

Skeleton Pirates are a pack of skeleton ghost pirates and are minor antagonists in the movie "James and the Giant Peach".

After Mr. Centipede gets caught, one of the Skeleton Pirates that was named Paul Bunyan tried, and failed to cut centipede in half.

With the help of Mr. Centipede, Miss Spider and James escaped with a compass. It appeared that Centipede got killed, but he came out in one piece.

It is unknown if the Skeleton Pirates are still alive.

Trivia

 * The Skeleton Pirate Captain bears a strong resemblance to Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas due to the interchangeable heads used for Jack Skellington being reused for the Pirate Captain.
 * One of the pirates bears a strong resemblance to Donald Duck
 * The pirates might be a stand-in for the cloud people from the original novel.