Cliche, Long and predictable - Spoilers

Rating: Null/10 (1 September 2003)

I'm surprised and shocked at the number of positive comments this film has gathered, which is what prompted me to write this review. This movie is based on a Hollywood formula which has been done so many times its a travesty it appears in the top 250.
You have : the kidnapped daughter which is the sole reason for the adventure, the father who wants her daughter to marry the high status good looking but with zero personality and slightly dim witted character, the poor and low class hero who is hopelessly in love with the rich and noble 'princess' but who is too shy and too aware of his social inadequecies to admit his love for her, the obviously choreographed fight scenes, especially the one in the smithy which is absurd, endless pirates fighting (who btw cannot die because they are immortal) and unknown military fodder who you don't care about anyway because they serve the 'evil' english establishment, the awful awful awful and did i mention AWFUL ending where of course the hero gets the girl because suddenly the father and the antihero have grown a new personality and have discovered what compassion and morality mean..... i mean can this plot be anymore predictable and cliched ? I think not.
A pitiful 2 out of 10 stars for Johnny Depp and the CGI effects.