Dead Men Tell No Tales - Until Now!

Rating: 8/10 (16 July 2006)

Johnny Depp as the perpetually pickled Captain Jack Sparrow is hilarious, especially when he sees Kiera Knightley and his first reaction is to tell his first mate, "Hide the rum!" No doubt recalling their last encounter when they were trapped on a cay in the Caribbean...
Kiera Knightley in all her anorexic glory did not seem as pithy as in the first episode.
Bill Nighy as the CGI'd Davey Jones was indeed well chosen, he has played an iconic rocker in "Love Actually"; as well as the Head Vampire, Viktor, in "Underworld" among many other roles over the years...
However, I have a few historical bones to pick - Caribs are not proved to be cannibals even on a ritualistic basis, further, they were straight haired in the film when in fact they intermarried with Africans (who were either explorers or runaway slaves) and therefore would have rather curly hair!
Next thing, only black people in this movie had Jamaican accents but in fact the white people would have to have that accent first to pass on to the slaves and would have been more likely at least 100 years before the setting of this story!
Next thing: how on earth does a pseudo-Jamaican have a Creole Patois brother? So the Caribbean consists only of Jamaica and St Lucia, please! Apart from that, the story was interesting and the swordplay was good if a bit wild like on the old mill-wheel - are these new rides Disney is subliminally selling to the public?
That and the ball-cages from the Carib camp? The next installment will have many loose ends to tie up, but apart from the anachronisms, this picture was as good as the first - a premise that can just as easily fail, so well done Jerry Bruckheimer!
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