{"id":10051,"date":"2004-03-14T14:40:21","date_gmt":"2004-03-14T19:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=10051"},"modified":"2015-12-13T03:26:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T08:26:28","slug":"pirates-of-the-caribbean-the-curse-of-the-black-pearl-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/14\/pirates-of-the-caribbean-the-curse-of-the-black-pearl-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Twas once a skeptic to the quality of the film now am a believer that Disney can still trot out quality films. My Mea Culpa was to assume that even with such a cast as Geoffrey Rush and Johnny Depp aboard that this would be a stinker, but once more I was wrong. Gore Verbinski who did an excellent directing job in the recent thriller \u201cThe Ring<\/a>\u201d conveys the true spirit of swashbuckling films in \u201cPirates of the Caribbean\u201d, a film that is very reminiscent of the old Errol Flynn Pirate epics that stunned audiences in the early 1900\u2019s in its truest essence; the swashbuckling film genre is dead only recently being brought to the screen with the bland \u201cCutthroat Island\u201d a film that had style but little substance.<\/p>\n

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When a young boy washes up on a military ship and taken in, he\u2019s discovered as a pirate by the feisty young Elizabeth Swanna (Keira Knightley) daughter of Commodore Swann; years later Will Hunter is grown and is a local blacksmith, Swann is now an aristocrat, and sleazy mysterious pirate Jack Sparrow is back on land. After attempting to steal a boat he\u2019s jailed and witnesses a group of pirates ravage the village and kidnap Elizabeth; now he and the young Will Hunter must form an uneasy partnership and journey to save Elizabeth while she must stay alive long enough, engaging in a battle of wits with the evil Captain Barbossa who wants her for mysterious reasons. Johnny Depp gives an excellent scene stealing Oscar nominated performance as the rebel pirate Jack Sparrow, and Geoffrey Rush the evil Captain Barbossa, two men who can act circles around any actor in Hollywood.<\/p>\n

Along with these two fine actors are Orlando Bloom who plays gallant, fearless, hero Will Turner, and teen heartthrob Keira Knightley who proves why she\u2019s a looker and can act too. There\u2019s this feeling of magic of adventure that doesn\u2019t often resonate to the audience from the screen and I was excited to discover what might awaited me in this adventure that never eases up. It manages to create style while staying true to the old adventure films of yore. Along with the motif there\u2019s stunning visuals with battleships blazing, villages that are so small but look so large and landscapes that will involve the audience all the way to the ending. There\u2019s also a heaping helpful of well choreographed sword fighting scenes for the movie lover to feast on. We get an old fashioned swashbuckling film of the old days, a genre that needs much re-generating and this might be the film to bring it back from the grave.<\/p>\n

Also, look for small but great roles from Jack Davenport from \u201cCoupling\u201d as Commodore Norrington and Mackenzie Crook from \u201cThe Office\u201d who plays google eyed sailor Ragetti. By the time we\u2019ve seen all the exploits of Jack Sparrow we\u2019ve had enough by the second hour, but \u201cPirates of the Caribbean\u201d tends to go on way too long. Maybe if they\u2019d cut about fifteen minutes this would have been tolerable, but it continues even after the final plot resolution has been finished. \u201cPirates of the Caribbean\u201d takes you back the good ol\u2019 days of Errol Flynn, and this brought me way back. Entertaining, exciting, and engrossing with a genuine feel of adventure along with excellent performances, this is truly worth watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twas once a skeptic to the quality of the film now am a believer that Disney can still trot out quality films. My Mea Culpa was to assume that even with such a cast as Geoffrey Rush and Johnny Depp aboard that this would be a stinker, but once more I was wrong. Gore Verbinski […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,64,71,219,240,290,349,561,752,778,874,1313,1008],"class_list":["post-10051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adaptation","tag-adventure","tag-comedy","tag-crime","tag-disney","tag-fantasy","tag-johnny-depp","tag-p","tag-pirates","tag-romance","tag-skeletons","tag-supernatural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17942,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10051\/revisions\/17942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}