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Summary: boring, cliched and childish.
Review: don't know why, maybe brain dead or what, my wife and i both fell asleep without even knowing it during watching this childish movie. what a bore, what a bomber. watched perhaps thousands movies, mucho pirates movies, but this one is definitely not our cup of tea. this is a very childish movie and after 1/3, it gradually came apart and became a very tiresome and boring movie. don't know why all the other viewers gave it high ratings, but a suppose-to-be-thrilled action packed movie could put both me and my wife to sleep was definitedly not a good enough movie, this one, and the other two zzzzz movies, 'half past dead', a pathetic stupid movie by the ever blooming steven segal, and 'matrix reloaded', were so far the three movies that have put the whole house into a peaceful zzzzzzz status. the only good they did to me was let me rest in peace without even noticed it. amen.
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Summary: Fasten Your Seat Belt..and Enjoy The Ride
Review: After the huge flops of recent pirate movies, most notably the hugely underrated Roman Polanski's Pirates, and the actually awful 'made for the missus' Renny Harlin's Cutthroat Island, Disney did take a big gamble in making another one. But their gamble paid off handsomely, and this is due to the collective effort from all involved..
Gore Verbinksi with The Ring,The Mexican and Mousehunt to his name, manages to show a very impressive command of this epic (nearly two and a half hours),and give us a very solid and confident direction.
Jerry Bruckheimer is a veteran producer who knows a thing or two about the entertaining value of movies.
Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, succeed in writing a script that is loaded with humour, action and well developed characters, slightly cliched but thoroughly involving. And the humour is relentless, from the 'Evil Dead'-ish skeletons, to the pairing of Mackensie Crook and Lee Arenberg as two hapless pirates.
The cast made up of largely British actors, are wonderful, Johnny Depp one of the best American actors today, the great Geoffrey Rush, the smart and classically beautiful Keira Knightley, and of course the scion of British actors, and one of my all time favorites, Jonathan Pryce.
The editing contributed a lot to the success of the brilliantly choreographed action scenes.
The make up, costumes and locations were well researched and it is obvious that a lot of hard work has been done to achieve this.
In short, everyone working on this film contributed their talent and effort to make it the success that it turned out to be.A sequel with the same team is already announced for 2005!!!
So Pirates of the Carribean is a thrilling, entertaining and very funny movie,the like of which you rarely see these days..I was not bored and my concentration did not lapse even for a mere second!So fasten your seat belts and buy this movie now, for you will be taken on exciting ride, a much needed escapism full of romance,adventure and humour.
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Summary: By far my favorite movie
Review: This was the best movie. It has a bit of everything, comedy, romance, action, and great acting. It's what movies are supposed to be, FUN. I love the ride and just about anything Disney (aside from anything full-price at the overpriced Disney Store). I can't wait to buy this tomorrow and watch it again and again. I can't wait until we can afford a big screen tv to watch it on. Not sure what everyone's beef is with widescreen, it makes me feel like I'm at the movies, even w/our 27 in tv.
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Summary: THE BEST MOVIE EVER
Review: Pirates of the Caribean: the black pearl was exquisite and fun for all ages. Teen girls(actualy women of all ages) will love watching Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp, while everyone can enjoy the amazing acting and beautiful scenery. ALso,this movie has laugh out loud comedy and wonderful special effects, especially the tenacioussness that is used to follow plot lines and small details through the movie. I would say if you only see one movie this year, see Pirates, you WONT be disappointed!!!!!!
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Summary: don't got the DVD but I've seen the movie
Review: Forget everything you herd about this film. Forget it's based after a disney ride, forget that Disney hasn't had a good live action movie in years, forget that you thought this was gonna suck. This is an amazing movie with some of the best acting in a disney, no forget that, just about any movie I've ever seen. The movie has suprisingly great action rivaling most action I've seen this year. It is basically the story of Captain Jack (played by the amazing Johnny Depp) as he fights to regain his pirate ship, the black pearl, stolen by his former crew turned zombies. I don't want to ruin to much of the plot so just go and watch it you won't be dissapointed.
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Summary: A Pirates Life For Me
Review: Pirates is the best film of 2003 thus far, since LOTR-ROTK isn't out at this writing. Johnny Depp owns the character Jack Sparrow now and forever. No one could ever could do a better job with that role. Mr. Depp delivered an absolutely stunning performance that will for generations stand as one of the most memorable movie characters ever. I've never underestimated Mr. Depp, but I was caught completely off guard opening day and left in awe that any actor could be that good, that real, that genuine. If Mr. Depp does not win an Oscar, there simply is no justice on Earth. Depp is astonishing every second he is on screen, which is most of the film. Orlando Bloom's "Will Turner" is more or less just a comic foil for Captain Sparrow than anything else. Turner is a pirate wannabe with a heart of gold. Many could have played that part and I'm glad that Mr. Bloom got the chance to prove he could do more than just look cool in a white wig with a bow and arrow in the LOTR films. Keira Knightly displays exceptional grace and emotional talent as the poor little rich girl. Don't overlook the other standout performance from the great Geoffrey Rush, whose Barbossa character is the most stereotypical pirate of the bunch. Barbossa is a more than worthy villain who relentlessly taunts all three heros. Barobossa will give younger children many nightmares. Tight script, flawless sets, authentic costumes, just right music and great location work add to the top notch quality. The surprise ending at the conclusion of the credits was sheer genius. An instant classic you can watch a dozen times. NEWS FLASH: DEPP, BLOOM & KNIGHTLEY RETURN IN "PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 2" (working title) IN PRE-PRODUCTION FOR RELEASE IN 2005. "Yo-Ho-Ho!"
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Summary: Wonderful Movie!
Review: This movie has a wonderful combination of acting, screenplay, and special effects. Johnny Depp performs beautifully in this.I'm usually not a big fan of the widescreen, but I really don't mind the widescreen. I think that all of you people who are happy that it's only in wide screen format should stuff yourselves because not everybody likes the things that you like, thurr!
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Summary: Johnny Depp is too much: he IS the movie
Review: What an incredible performance he delivered on this one! Though the beautiful Keira Knightley (Bend It Like Beckham) and Orlando Bloom (Lord of the Rings) play very good parts, alongside Geoffrey Rush, this is a movie that Depp steals from the moment he appears on it. Though I enjoyed his performances in "Blow," "Chocolat," "Before Night Falls" and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" his impersonation of Captain Jack Sparrow was simply brilliant and deeply enjoyable all the way. With a very intentional and sometimes unintelligible accent that makes him sound like a drunk Australian with twist, Depp's brilliance resides in his infusion of Rolling Stones' guitarist Keith Richards' traits into his character, something that will make you laugh every single time he even moves. In fact, at times he doesn't even have to talk to deliver: his character transmits a mix of madness, recklessness, goofyness and sense of adventure through all means that he has at hand. Five stars to a great performance and one of the most entertaining movies of the summer to now come out on DVD just in time for the Holidays.
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Summary: Beautiful Widescreen Image, Great Sound!
Review: Because this, thrilling ride of an action movie was filmed using Panavision, the image fills a RECTANGULAR Movie Screen. A Television is SQUARE*, so you will be losing out on half of the visuals (fool screen, indeed). Irregardless, one should take the opportunity and get this DVD, mainly to catch a career-defining performance (Depp), some neat FX, great sound, and a wonderful image.
*I do not have a widescreen TV, but I do respect the director's original intent of composition.
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Summary: Hurray for Disney, Pirates, and WIDESCREEN!!!
Review: Thank you Disney for releasing a great movie in a format where we see the WHOLE (i.e. 100%) of the picture, rather than fullscreen, which cuts off the sides!!! I have a standard TV and only watch widescreen -- even in my minivan, which only has about a 9 inch screen. Hopefully, this is a new trend with our friends at Disney and they can be a leader in releasing DVDs using the original aspect ratio -- the way that the films were presented in theaters. The fullscreen crowd will eventually understand what they're missing, just like the "record store holdouts" who originally resisted the conversion to CDs. BRAVO DISNEY!!
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