Ship-A-Hoy My Matey

Rating: Null/10 (19 October 2003)

Synopsis Spoiler! Ship-A-Hoy My Matey. As the title states, this is a movie about pirates who are under an ancient curse. Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) runs the Black Pearl with a crew of the undead. Because of the curse, the ship is doomed to sail the Caribbean Sea for eternity looking for the loss treasure. The curse will be removed if they are able to put all the gold coins back into the gold chest. Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) received one of these gold coins from his father as a child. However, Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) took the coin from Will and has it in her possession. The pirates kidnap her and the swashbuckling action begins. Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) helps in the rescue of Elizabeth and the return of his ship, the Black Pearl. The special effects of the battle scenes and the skeletons of the dead pirates were well done. However, the acting of Depp was the biggest drawback of the movie. Depp played an incompetent captain, and I think he was also an incompetent actor in this part with terrible makeup. All the bad pirates played their parts very well, however, you didn't know if Captain Jack Sparrow was a good pirate or a bad pirate. Even though Disney made this movie, this is not a movie to take your kids. 5/10