Disney's successful bet on 21st century cinema

Rating: 8/10 (13 December 2008)

Disney's recipe for a multi-millionaire franchise: Mix some good pirates, with Johnny Depp as the main ingredient, (make sure they're warm-hearted and technically losers), with a few infra-world evil pirates, in a semi-real Renaissance world, spiced with a love story and with lots and lots of laughs. Heat it up for 2 hours approximately and you'll win more than any President would earn in a lifetime.
If that sounded a little bit too rude for you, I assure my intentions weren't bad. "Pirates of the Caribbean" is a very entertaining and funny story about the 4 most appreciated treasures of life: love, family, power and money.
Jack Sparrow is one of the most interesting characters in movie history, an eccentric but in a very strange way, a human being like ourselves. Special effects, make up, music, costume design and art direction are just magnificent. The villain, excellent. Plot and direction are quite good. Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom are just nice.
Even though, we find in "Pirates..." a very different face of Walt Disney Studios, more mature and quite changed for trying to adapt to the 21st century audiences. I must say: Nice way to go, Bruckheimer, keep up the good work and I'm looking forward to watch another high-quality franchise like this.