Overdone and contrived

Rating: 1/10 (19 January 2007)

I went to see Pirates with the expectation that it would be a true pirate movie along the lines of Captain Blood with Errol Flynn looking like a man and Basil Rathbone as the perfect villain. I thought Johnny Depp with all the eye makeup looked like a girl with a moustache and acted too silly to be a real pirate. And the computer simulated scenes took it into the realm of fantasy and more like the Disneyland ride it was based on. I realize that, by today's standards, Captain Blood looks campy but the famous sword fight along a spit of sand between Blood (Flynn) and Captain Levasseur (Rathbone)stands as a Hollywood classic which none of POTC comes near.