Rating: 
Summary: Excellent
Review: What can I say? This movie was excellant!! How can you not love Jonny Depp for his subpurb performance as Captain Jack. He truely deserves an Oscar for it. My vote goes out to him. This movie will truely be a classic. I believe this was his best!! What really impressed me about the movie was that it was so great without the vulgarity of language. It shows that we can have Oscar performing movies and actors without it. My hat is off to you Johnny and the rest of the cast & crew and Jerry for bringing us a movie that truely deserves an Emmy and a best actor Emmy for Johnny.
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Summary: Leave-your-brain-at-home fun!
Review: A heavily mascara'd Johnny Depp camps it up no end as the rascally but nice Cap'n Jack Sparrow, with an outrageously fluctuating Australian/English accent, whilst Orlando Bloom almost matches him for pretty-boy foppishness (that hat at the end has to be seen to be believed). But, what the hell? This was never meant to be an accurately observed swashbuckler, so let's just go with the flow! Slightly over-long perhaps, with some rather inane dialogue between the dramatic set pieces, but redeemed by truly magnificent special effects and some outrageously funny visual gags (sadly, one of the best is only found on the deleted scenes disk). A bit derivative in places - including a complete rip-off of the assembling the crew scene, stolen shamelessly from the brilliant Deathstalker II (the dwarf bit), but there's enough original material to satisfy most punters here. Human interraction with zombies has probably never before been more convincingly portrayed. The skeletal monkey was a gem! Plenty of extras on the DVD 2-disk set, the "Moonlight Serenade" scene progression feature being particularly interesting, makes this pretty good value for money. My 13 year old son fell asleep before the end, but I quite enjoyed it! So, certainly not Oscar material, but pretty entertaining all the same.
Rating: 
Summary: Good Show
Review: I throughly enjoyed this movie. The special effects weren't over-done or too rediculous looking. In fact I think they're some of the best special effects I've seen in a while.
Johnny Depp is outstanding. He plays his character well and is so charismatic in performance that you can't help to like him and see what he does next.
Anyone who enjoys movies about Pirates, espcially good ones, this is a good movie to pick up and add to your collection. (Also, check out the comic book El Cazador, its along the same lines as this movie as far as pirates and so on.)
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Summary: Confusing values for kids?
Review: I loved the special effects in this movie. It was well done -- although the fighting scenes were sometimes a bit drawn out. I worry, though, about young children's impressions of the "good guys" being, in reality, the "bad guys." Yes, it was all done in fun and I love fantasy as much as the next gal -- just hoping that parents out there are aware of some of the ideas that this movie suggests to young minds. Talk to your kids about it! (PS -- Hang onto those values Mr. Roy Disney. We love what you stand for.)
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Summary: Welcome to the Caribbean...
Review: Outstanding! Finally, someone has produced an up-to-date pirate movie. I think this may be Johnny Depp's best performance, and to think that he actually had to convince Disney, who was about to have him replaced, to trust his instincts on how to portray Cap'n Jack Sparrow. I also liked Orlando Bloom's portrayal of Will Turner, the seemingly well-bred son of "Bootstrap Bill", the notorious pirate. The story line is also fresh for a pirate movie - not just a lot of plundering, pillaging and swashbuckling. I won't give it all away, but the whole "crew of the damned ship" concept really worked for me. The DVD also has some pretty nice featurettes, including interesting material about the CGIs for the haunted ship and crew, and the ships that were used in the movie. The best thing of all - my kids love it. They watched it over and over for about a week and spent their time in-between viewings talking about it. I strongly recommend this movie for its fresh portrayal of pirates, good humor, action, and fine acting. Good luck to the cast and crew in the upcoming Oscars.
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Summary: OOOH, JOHNNY!
Review: Johnny Depp simply drips with roguish sensuality...he had me laughing so hard that I actually cried in my pants!
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Summary: I wonder how many pirated copies of this movie there are...?
Review: I'm pretty excited about the movies that have come out this year. It's been a great year, and Pirates of the Caribbean was the icing on the cake for me for a year filled with all kinds of goodies. Perhaps my pre-conceived notion that a movie based upon a ride at Disneyland couldn't possibly be good, but it was! Not only that, but it was great! While I wasn't impressed with the movie as a special effects film the acting and dialogue of this film were simply enchanting. Johnny Depp was simply amazing showing off his brilliance as an actor capable of many different kind of rolls, its little wonder he has so many fans across both genders, and I'm not ashamed to admit that I can be counted among them! Orlando Bloom did amazing as well; proving there is life for him after Lord of the Rings, and Kierra Knightly.... was she really only 17 when the film was made? She acts with a maturity well beyond her years, possessing both elegant beauty, and extreme talent. Such amazing talent, and such effort was put into this film that it was more than apparent that the movie was a labor of love for the crew. The only problem with the film that I have is a political side note, in that I am an advocate of anti-piracy efforts, the "moral of the story" at the end of the film was kinda poorly worded. I know the idea was to have the law decide to overlook the "crime" because the end result was good, however the film writers seemed to inadvertently endorse piracy which is a huge problem costing several entertainment and software industries billions (software companies loose a total of just under 12 billion every year alone). It makes me wonder how many pirated copies of this film are out there, or if the writers would have written the final scenes if they understood how dire the situation has really gotten. I'm okay with making pirates the heroes, this movie was simply put wonderful, I enjoyed it immensely, but the ending seemed a bit like a pro-piracy lecture to an extent. Politics aside, I am eagerly awaiting the sequel, and keeping my fingers crossed for the return of Johnny Depp in his amazing role in this film.
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Summary: Talk about Over-rated movies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I can't explain how ANNOYING it is any time someone brings up this movie. They say "OOoooOO AAaaHHhh, this is the best cinematic masterpiece I've ever laid eyes on!" IT'S BASED OFF A FREAKIN' 50 YEAR OLD THEME PARK RIDE FOR CRYIN' OUT LOUD!! I would like this movie if it weren't for those dweebs who worship this movie, so it wouldn't be annoying! But of course, they wouldn't shut up about it, and i still drives me through the roof. Even my friend (i wont mention names) keeps repeating those stupid lines from that movie. AAHHHHH!!! It drives me insane! Even THE SUN newspaper, the newspaper that literally hates all movies gave it 3 1/2 stars. I can't take ittt!! Maybe i'm the only one who thinks this, but this movie is the most over-rated and irritaing movie yet. This review would be much more positive if people would just treat it like an actual movie, instead of a 'cinematic masterwork' or something. So in conclusion, "Arrrggghhh, this MOVIE blows!"
Rating: 
Summary: I Pray For You All
Review: This is one of the absolute worst films I have ever seen. Gore Verbinski has never made a good movie. Johnny Depp (who is one of my all time favorite actors) gives one of the worst performances I have ever seen. How could this film make as much money as it did? And why is Depp nominated for a best actor oscar? What is wrong with the world that so many people got sucked into this bloated mess? I can't believe how awful this film truly is...Embarassing in so many ways. The only good thing in the film is when it ends...Then its finally over.
Rating:
Summary: Good movie
Review: Without Johnny Depp being so amazing, this movie would not have the impact it does. He played his role flawlessly and I doubt anyone could have played his role as a thief and a pirate better. He does an amazing accent as well. Aside from him, the movie keeps you attentive at all times - you are never bored, always entertained... and the humor is very tongue in cheek, which is nice if you like a little intellectual humor from a boat thief. The computer graphics of the ghosts and zombies was VERY realistic. You could see a lot of time was put into making this movie. Nothing was left untouched. I have great respect for everything in this -- simply because in every scene your eyes are wandering all over the screen to just inhale everything you are watching. It is a fantastic movie! The only reason I give this 4 out of 5 stars is because of predictability. Although there are some moments where you don't know what to expect... pretty much the whole movie you know what's around the corner. But at least what you see is good. I'd recommend getting it for your dvd library!
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