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Summary: Jack Sparrow-Blockbuster of the Summer
Review: I was excited to see the POTC because i LOVED legolas and so i firgured another orlando movie would be great. But i did not expect this! It is hands down my FAVE movie. And though orlando did and amazing job as did everyone else, the hit of the movie was Cap'n Jack Sparrow (Depp). he was absolutely hilarious! he took good part and made it amazing. Depp keeps u smiling and wanting more; when he is not in the scence u r impatiently waiting for him to show up on the screen. Jonny Depp definetly deservings an academy award for this preformance!
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Summary: BEST PIRATE MOVIE OF THE YEAR!
Review: When I first saw the preview of this movie I thought to myself -that doesn't look very interesting, rather dull if you ask me. I decided I would see it only because of Johnny Depp. It was honestly the BEST action/comedy/pirate movie I have seen in a while. Johnny Depp is absolutey fabulous as Captain Jack Sparrow, and Orlando Bloom is equally great as Will Turner. Geoffrey Rush also played a wonderful Captain Barbosa. I'd have to say though, Johnny Depp carried the movie! He was hilarious with his crazy body movements, great facial expressions, and his acting - which is phenomenal as always.AND - even as a pirate with long braided hair and gold capped teeth he is SO gorgeous! LOVE HIM! Definitely GO SEE THE MOVIE even if you don't like pirates! It's fabulous! :)
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Summary: A TERRIFIC summer popcorn movie!
Review: My husband and I both came out of the theater having thoroughly enjoyed this movie. The special effects, sets, and costuming was fabulous. The dialogue was snappy, and the actors were very swashbuckling! This movie told a good story with lots of plot twists and seemed to be more in keeping with the old Disney adventure movies. This was a great summer popcorn movie!
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Summary: A little thin on plot, but great special effects.
Review: Johnny Dep was wonderful, as always, in his crazy, off-beat, unpredictable way. He saves a film that has little else to offer except special effects and memorable references to the ride. I must say that Jeffrey Rush also does a marvelous acting job. However, the plot has lots of holes that make the film poorly conceived. Captain Jack Sparrow looks far too young to have ever led this aged crew. He would have been a boy, the same as Will Turner at the time the gold was stolen, so how could he have been the captain. Also being in Davey Jones Locker wouldn't have ended the life of Turner's father who was as immortally damned as the others, and why was his blood necessary anyway? Couldn't have been part of the Aztec curse, he wasn't around then. I kept expecting him to show up and throw a new twist into the plot, but he never did. I thought the love triangle at the base of the storyline was rather pathetic and contrived. It would have been much more interesting with Depp as the rival suitor (good boy VS the rogue ala Luke Skywalker, Hans Solo, Princess Leah), but then this is Disney and everything has to be totally predictable from the start.
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Summary: Me!!!
Review: Good gracious this was an awesome movie!!! It is ranked extremely high in my movie scale! it ties for first with Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars(as you can tell i like action and fantasy). But it was so clean too! It was funny, had awesome fight scenes in it, and can be enjoyed by people of all ages! the actors and actresses were VERY well chosen. GO SEE IT!!! You'll thank yourself later!
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Summary: Best Disney Movie
Review: I have to say, I do enjoy Disney films, but never one I have fallen inlove with-until now. Wow...it didn't even seem like a Disney flick, except for the whole Pirates of the Caribbean deal lol. The movie was amazing, it was very funny, exciting, and all round just a good movie. The special effects were great, expecially during a certain fighting sequence. Go see the movie!
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Summary: OK GIRLS STEP ASIDE!! A MAN'S REVIEW OF PIRATES!
Review: I just saw this film for my second time in 3 days! I loved it! It is my favorite ride in Disney World and when I heard about the movie coming out, I had to see it with my wife! I thought it had excellent acting from Depp and Bloom. And a beautiful damsel in distress by the name of KEIRA KNIGHTLEY.
Whom I thought did an awsome job acting as well! (Oh man those lips were totally meant for kissing by a pirates son!) I also enjoyed the villians very much! This has to be Johnny Depps best character performance since SLEEPY HOLLOW. And I plan on buying it on DVD as soon as it hits the stores! Great family movie. Great clean old fashioned fun!!! Hey Hollywood... see, you don't need swearing, vulgar, or disgusting things in movies to make them block busters! DISNEY RULES SUMMER MOVIES PIRATES AND NEMO! Thank you Disney!
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Summary: Never a Dull Moment
Review: The phrase "never a dull moment" can truly be applied to Gore Verbinski's Pirates of the Caribbean. In the quiet town of Port Royal, Elizabeth Swan (played by Kiera Knightley of "Bend It Like Beckham") is a girl longing for adventure, love, or possibly just freedom from her corset. When Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp of "Sleepy Hollow") swings into Port Royal, it seems she has finally found the sense of adventure she was hoping for; however, Jack causes a little too much trouble with the authorities and ends up in jail. Soon after, the town is blown off the map when the Black Pearl arrives and its crew captures Elizabeth, who holds one of their trinkets. Will Turner, a friend and local blacksmith (played by Orlando Bloom, "Black Hawk Down", "The Two Towers" and "The Fellowship of the Ring") realizes that she is gone and lets Jack out of jail for help with a search-and-rescue mission. The plot blooms as Jack seeks revenge against his first mate who betrayed him, Will finds out the peculiar traits that run in his blood-line, and Elizabeth holds out while kicking [butt] against the cursed pirates of the Black Pearl. Each scene is packed with action, accented by lively swordfights, special effects, and Klaus Badelt's riveting original score. While watching the movie, it is easy to forget that the folks at Disney actually made it- there's hardly a corny joke or campy scene in sight. Trust us, by the time you're halfway in, you'll be singing along: "Yo-ho, yo-ho, a pirate's life for me."
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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: Personally, I hated the Pirates ride at Disneyland, and until I saw this movie, I thought that the pirate genre in general was rather uncouth and not anything that I wanted to find out more about. I only went to see the movie because my whole family was going and because I thought that Orlando Bloom was attractive, in an earnest 20-year-old kind of way. However, after seeing this movie, I was disappointed with Bloom's performance. I was also disappointed with Keira Knightly's and Geoffrey Rush's performances. This is not to say that they were bad; all three of them were actually quite good. However, the show was undoubtedly stolen by the incredible performance of Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow. Having once portrayed a drunk man onstage, I can tell you that it is one the most challenging things that I have ever done. Throughout most of the movie, Depp appeared to be both slightly drunk and slightly off his rocker, which made an interesting combination. Now, I've read many reviews that lauded Depp's performance, and left it at that. By the end of the movie, though, I was wondering what I ever saw in Orlando Bloom, as Depp was quite the more attractive character, in the physical sense. Bloom was cute and sincere, but cute and sincere gets dull. Depp,however, came off as mysterious and unpredictable, which to me is far more appealing. The plot itself isn't exactly complex and the scriptwriting certainly won't get any Oscars, but Pirates is more than worth the [cost of] the ticket, at least once. Prepare to be surprised.
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Summary: "The Pirate's Life For Me...."
Review: When was the last time you saw a summer movie that was actually worthy of being a summer movie blockbuster?. It's been a while. For me anyways. Not anymore. This was one of the funnest summery type extravaganzas I have seen in a while. The movie is not a typical Disney film. In fact, the famous logo doesn't even appear at the beginning of the movie. The title barely appears at the beginning either. Pirate movies are not what one would call heavy hitters at the box office. They don't have a great track record. That's because they didn't know how to make a really great one. The ride was very special and nostalgic for me, so this whole movie was something pretty sweet. Johnny Depp stars as Captain Jack Sparrow. He is a pirate captain without a ship. It would be more fun to find out how he lost it, than for me to tell you. He enters the small sea town of Port Royal, and his entrance is a classic. Funny and memorable. The film starts off with a little girl named Elizabeth Swan, who witnesses her father, The Governor, and his men pull up a small boy floating on the water. Little Elizabeth takes his pirate necklace that he is wearing. We flash forward 8 years to a more grown Elizabeth, who is played by the strikingly beautiful Keira Knightley. The little boy, Will Turner, has grown up to be a blacksmith, and is played by Orlando Bloom. Jack wants to take back his ship, The Black Pearl, which was taken over by Captain Barbossa and his crew. Barbossa and his men are inflicted by a horribe curse that has them lost between life and death. They are not dead, but they are not exactly alive either. They turn into skeletons at night when they are in the moonlight. They also can't feel, drink, eat, or basically do anything. Jack and Will, enemies at first, team up to get Jack back his ship, and to rescue Elizabeth, who has fallen into the hands of Barbossa after having the last piece they need to break free of the curse. Disney's latest attempts to turn their rides into films hasn't worked. This one does. This has kiddie appeal, but it's also an adult film as well. Director Gore Verbinski, who directed "The Ring", gives the film the look and feel that it needs. The murky waters, the sinister caves, and all of that stuff. Depp is a genius. His choices of odd, quirky characters have made him greatly admired and respected in the world of acting with fans and Hollywood insiders alike. He is the most versatile actor of his time. His Jack Sparrow is one for the books. It's hard to describe him. He's an instant classic screen character of indestructible presence. One wonders where Johnny came up with his take on the character, but we are glad that he did it. You've never seen anything like it. He gives into the role and makes it real. He IS this movie. He rules every scene he is in and the film doesn't have the punch whenever he isn't in it. Some wish Depp would try 'normal' things for a change. I ask this - why?. Who would want that?. Why change what you are so brilliant at?. Why change what has given you so much respect in the industry?. If you are not a Depp fan, (and if your not then what's wrong with you?!?!?!), you will be after this movie. Orlando is a solid enough actor, but there isn't much difference with his character and many others we have seen. He is the straight man, and he does just fine. When he is on screen with Johnny, we see how much more he has to learn. Geoffrey Rush is Barbossa. He seems to be the only other one here, besides Depp, who seems to really jump into the role and play it to the hilt. He is a lot of fun. Knightley is just a beautiful girl. She was solid in the film, if nothing spectacular, but she was a real delight to look at. The only other familiar face here is Jonathan Pryce, who plays Governor Swan. The script is clever and sharp and has many jokes throughout. These are the same people who wrote "Shrek", so you know the film will be peppered with a nice dose of respectable and laughable humor. It is. The effects were very good. I wished there were more scenes with the skeletons, but oh well. They were incredibly done. Amazing to look at. The score was another great accomplishment. However, the movie gets bogged down due to an overlong running time. It really zips by, but then the second half kicks in and parts drag on a bit. It wouldn't of hurt to snip a few parts out. You will also notice some nods to the amusement ride at Disneyland too. The movie knows what it is and knows what it has to do in order to succeed and entertain. It does it incredibly well. It's the type of movie that fun, summery type movies were created for. I wish they were all this cool. It's swashbuckling fun with sword fights, action, special effects, romance, and one heck of a scene stealing performance from Depp. You need to see this!!.
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