Polly the dodo was female, too.
The context of the 'looking down ladies' tops,' was that a scientist was presenting his invention, an airship, and admitted, embarassed, that's why he'd made it. It wasn't a lofty scientific pursuit. He left the stage in shame and was ridiculed by the other characters.
Nearly all children's films are dominated by white, male characters or their proxies if characters aren't human. If they are based on existing, well known books, it may be harder to make them be more representative without irking the purists.
The cross dressing pirate, queen nor Polly were depicted in particularly worring ways. Cutlass Liz though was a cringeworthy 'hot Latina' and that was totally wrong. Apart from Liz, a brief appearance by Lenny Henry's Peg Leg and one mixed heritage member of the captain's crew, all the characters were white.
I like Aardman stuff although not as representative as it could be. Chicken Run passed Bechdel Test though.
What's worse is the films where the geek turned hero 'wins' a female who'd previously had no interest in him. It feeds into that idea of meen feeling entitled to a woman if the do such and such.
There were two previews of kids' films where this was the case. Gah. Oh, ans sexualised non human and child characters - not good.
Going to see pirates again next weekend so will have a closer look.