Tremendously entertaining pirate movie

Rating: 10/10 (11 September 2003)

I have to admit it - I had some prejudices about Pirates of the Caribbean - the Curse of the Black Pearl. I was in a belief that it would be either a pretty scary children's movie or a boring sword-clanging movie with Orlando Bloom as a stupid pirate.
But, as usually, I was proven wrong.
The movie was hilarious, exciting, unique, adventurous and romantic all the same. While there were serious and exciting sword fights and attempts to take over Captain Barbossa's crew, Capt. Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) always appeared as a comic relief and easened the atmosphere a bit.
One of the best things about PotC was absolutely it's smooth and clever dialogue. I had probably one of the best laughs ever in movie history while watching this pearl of movie industry. PotC was funny, but not too funny so that it would have ruined the movie's adventurousness or scariness (yes, it was scary, occasionally. Or what do you say about a skeleton-monkey?).
Jack Sparrow is definitely the coolest pirate there is. And he wouldn't have been much if it wasn't for Mr. Depp here. Johnny did an amazing job playing Jack Sparrow and I must say, as a big Johnny-fan, that this was his best role so far.
Luckily the name refers to the fact that we might get a sequel - the movie didn't make it too bad on the box offices...
Overall this was a very entertaining movie in every way. 10/10.