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DVD Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl - (Special Edition 3-Disc Gift Set)
You won't need a bottle of rum to enjoy Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, especially if you've 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) on an adventurous quest to recapture the notorious Black Pearl, a ghost ship commandeered by Jack's nemesis Capt. 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 into a special-effects thrill-ride that plays like a Halloween party on the open seas. Aye, matey, we've come a long way since Jason and the Argonauts! --Jeff Shannon
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Pirates of the Caribbean-The Curse of the Black Pearl
I am a Asia university student and I watched the Pirates of the Caribbean-The Curse of the Black Pearl.The story is about a pirate who searches for a ship.I thought the story was very interesting because
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I am a japanese university student and I watched pirates of the carribbean.
The story is about people who fight against cursed pirates.
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I would recommend this show because very exciting.
One Soul Is Not Equal To Another
You've got to hand it to Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio. They are a winning team of writers with a pretty good resume of flicks that they've combined on. Amongst others, they did the first two Pirates movies and are together again for 2007's upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End.
And all of the key characters from Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) are back in Dead Man's Chest played by the same actors...with the same director (Gore Verbinski). That's usually the most important ingredient to a successful sequel. The main addition to Dead Man's Chest is Davy Jones played superbly by Bill Nighy (Nighy plays a great monster; I loved him as the vampire Viktor in the Underworld movie series).
And all of the key players will be back for a quick return in 2007 with World's End. Can't wait.
The effects in Curse of the Black Pearl and Dead Man's Chest are great. The movies are visually spectacular from CGI ghosts & sea monsters to at sea adventure to make up effects.
There's lots of silliness in the Pirates movies, but it's deliberate. There's slapstick. There are death-defying feats. There's Johhny Depp (Captain Jack Sparrow) doing his best imitation of Keith Richards (true factoid, he has publicly commented that Richards is his Jack Sparrow character inspiration). But it all mostly works. After all, this is indeed supposed to be a movie for kids too, no?
It's must be tough to make a PG movie these days; it's hard to believe that this Disney theme park ride turned billion dollar movie franchise is getting PG-13 treatment. Kids 13 and under can see more violence and hear more profanity at school recess and at the local playground than they do in Pirates. How is it that National Treasure (2004) gets PG and Pirates doesn't? Ludicrous. But I won't get started on how neurotically insane the pressure is from certain groups on the MPAA to "protect" our youth.
I will indeed finish by saying that the first two of the Pirates series have grossed over $1,000,000,000 (that's a BILLION dollars) because they're good movies that kids can watch too. They're certainly not the best two movies in the world; in fact, Dead Man's Chest is probably more between a 3 and 4 star rating than the solid 4 star that Curse of the Black Pearl would earn alone. But numbers don't lie. People are drawn to this franchise. I am drawn to this franchise.
As Davy Jones says, "One soul is not equal to another." So describes my view of the MPAA rating system to the next guy's, and so analogizes my opinion of Curse of the Black Pearl versus Dead Man's Chest. Bottom line: both movies offer a total of more than 4 hours of time that can be spent nuzzling up with your kids. Hence, my recommendation: add the Pirates series to your cart.
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