Witty swashbuckler with fantasy elements is a winner

Rating: 8/10 (8 September 2003)

I didn't expect too much from this film, but I do have a soft spot for pirates and I got to see this one at a drive-in, so I figured I had nothing to lose. It turned out to be a really pretty good film, both for its stirring action and its witty dialogue, played to a tee by Depp and Bloom and bunch. Depp is great and very appropriately over the top as a pirate captain out for revenge on the crew who abandoned him on an island for dead. The curse that has been placed on the crew requires them to find every peice of a particular treasure or they will have to live forever as zombies.
This isn't a movie you could say a lot about, but it was a whole lot of fun, and I'm looking forward to seeing it again, hopefully this time with a bottle of rum!