It's a sensational swashbuckling success, savvy?

Rating: 10/10 (27 May 2005)

Nowadays when I see the "Walt Disney" mark at the top of a film I think to myself, "Oh no, another rubbishy soppy story with an ending like ones on Barney the Dinosaur." You cannot deny it, Disney is letting us down. Or was letting us down UNTIL the launch of "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl".
You see, POTC is nothing like the usual Disney do-gooder rubbish that everybody finds incredibly tiring and sickening. It is comedy from the start. And, thankfully, the soppy lines are kept to a minimum. And you know what? They are TWENTY TIMES more effective than when they are thrown at you all the time. For instance, when Will (Bloom) and Elizabeth (Knightley) kiss at the end, its for the first time in the whole film and it makes it so sweet that everybody is wiping their eyes at the perfect love story.
The casting is superb as well and I'm not just talking about the big actors (Orlando Bloom, Johnny Depp, Kiera Knightley, Geoffrey Rush), the less well-known actors are top-notch. Who can forget the showdown between Jack Davenport's "Commodore Norrington" and Depp's "CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow"? Or strange antics of Giles New and Angus Barnett's "Murtogg" and "Mullroy". And the extras do their job perfectly.
Overall, this film is well acted and extremely well directed. The Jerry Bruckheimer effects will wow you and the comedy will have you quoting the script for weeks to come.
A must-see for all the family! P.S. The extras on the DVD especially the Blooper Reel and the commentaries are a great source of entertainment.