You won't need a bottle of rum to enjoy Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, even if you haven't experienced the Disneyland theme-park ride that inspired it. There's a galleon's worth of fun in watching Johnny Depp's androgynous performance as Captain Jack Sparrow, a roguish pirate who could pass for the illegitimate spawn of rockers Keith Richards and Chrissie Hynde. Depp gets all the good lines and steals the show, recruiting Orlando Bloom (a blacksmith and expert swordsman) and Keira Knightley (a lovely governor's daughter). They set out on an adventurous quest to recapture the notorious Black Pearl, a ghost ship commandeered by Jack's nemesis Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), a mutineer desperate to reverse the curse that left him and his (literally) skeleton crew in a state of eternal, undead damnation. Director Gore Verbinski (The Ring) repeats the redundant mayhem that marred his debut film Mouse Hunt, but with the writers of Shrek he's made Pirates of the Caribbean into a special-effects thrill-ride that plays like a Halloween party on the open seas. --Jeff Shannon
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Johnny Depp | Jack Sparrow |
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Geoffrey Rush | Barbossa |
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Orlando Bloom | Will Turner |
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Keira Knightley | Elizabeth Swann |
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Jack Davenport | Norrington |
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Jonathan Pryce | Governor Weatherby Swann |
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Lee Arenberg | Pintel |
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Mackenzie Crook | Ragetti |
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Damian O'Hare | Lt. Gillette |
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Giles New | Murtogg |
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Angus Barnett | Mullroy |
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David Bailie | Cotton |
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Michael Berry Jr. | Twigg |
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Isaac C. Singleton Jr. | Bo'sun |
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Kevin McNally | Joshamee Gibbs |
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Treva Etienne | Koehler |
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Zoe Saldaña | Anamaria |
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Guy Siner | Harbormaster |
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Ralph P. Martin | Mr. Brown |
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Paula J. Newman | Estrella |
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Paul Keith | Butler |
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Dylan Smith | Young Will |
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Lucinda Dryzek | Young Elizabeth |
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Luke de Woolfson | Frightened Sailor |
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Michael Sean Tighe | Seedy Looking Prisoner |
| Director | Gore Verbinski |
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| Writer | Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Stuart Beattie, Jay Wolpert | |
| Producer | Jerry Bruckheimer, Paul Deason, Bruce Hendricks, Chad Oman, Pat Sandston, Mike Stenson | |
| Musician | Klaus Badelt | |
| Photography | Dariusz Wolski | |
| Packaging | Custom Case |
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| Nr Discs | 1 |
| Screen Ratios | Theatrical Widescreen (2.35:1) |
| Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital 5.1 [English] |
| Subtitles | English | English (Closed Captioned) |
| Distributor | Walt Disney Home Video |
| Layers | Single side, Dual layer |
| Edition Release Date | 2003 |
| Regions | Region 2 |