Thrills and spills aplenty.

Rating: 9/10 (25 May 2005)

Pirates of the Caribbean is an entertaining and funny swashbuckling adventure that offers old fashioned thrills and spills . And good ones they are too.
The story is engaging and the performances are surprisingly good. Johnny depp is mesmerising as the seemingly forever drunk jack sparrow and Geoffry rush makes a great pantomime like villain as captain barbosa.
The film has a timeless authentic look,and speaking of visual stuff, the cgi is amazing. In this day and age where cgi is so frequent that we've become a bit demystified to it , the films CG zombie pirates look fantastic.They so look real Its incredible .
My only gripe with potc is the surprising lack of black people in the movie.I mean, its called pirates of the Caribbean, not the pirates of europe ,you know? the Caribbean is and was made up of black people and i think that it was wrong to avoid that.
Apart from that flaw though , the film is an effortlessly fun and entertaining adventure.Who would of thought that id give a positive review to a movie based on a disneyland ride , eh ?