If you're looking for a hugely involved plot or important message, don't watch this. But if you want to be entertained, this is your lucky day

Rating: Null/10 (30 August 2003)

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is excellent when you're grading for entertainment, not quite so much if you're grading for artistic content- some feel that the plot is too complicated, the movie is too long, or that the writing is bad. But this movie doesn't make any claims at being a great work of art. It's a movie for fun. The amount of eyeliner on Johnny Depp should have told you that.
Speaking of Johnny Depp, his performance as Captain Jack Sparrow is excellent and ever so swishy, and while the plot doesn't make perfect sense, it showcases Captain Jack in all his glory.
This is entertainment that's actually entertaining, and besides, it's a pirate movie. An attempt at artistic glory would just distract from everything good about that.