Year:
2003
Studio:
Walt Disney Pictures
Jerry Bruckheimer Films
Feature: 4/5
DVD:
4/5
Pirates of the Carribean:
The Curse of the Black Pearl is a movie based on the Disney
ride. But since the ride itself has no story to it the screenwriters
had a lot of freedom to develop an original story. It stars Johnny
Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley.
Elizabeth (Knightley) as a girl helped rescue Will Turner (Bloom) and
fell in love with him. Cut a decade later and she's a young
aristocratic woman -- the governor's daughter -- and Will a lowly
apprentice blacksmith. They have an attraction for each other but class
keeps them apart.
Enter Captain Jack Sparrow (Depp), a pirate captain without a ship and
looking for one to steal. Jack is captured and put in jail. That's when
the pirates of the Black Pearl, led by Captain Barbossa (Rush) arrive.
The Black Pearl is Jack's former ship whose crew mutineed and marooned
him a decade ago.
The pirates are in Port Royal for something and end up with Elizabeth.
Will enlists Jack's aid and off they go to rescue her. Lots of action
ensues as the three main objectives intertwine: Barbossa wants to break
a curse, Will wants to rescue Elizabeth, and Jack wants his ship back.
It's a very well done movie. Big budget action movie with a PG-13
rating. Lots of special effecta and fighting and explosions. But also a
good story behind it and I appreciated all the little elements once
they were point out in the commentaries. Johnny Depp is amazingly good
and I've never really thought of him as being all that great an actor.
Overall a highly recommended movie.
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Extras
Audio Commentaries
-- Director Gore Verbinski and Actor Johnny Depp.
-- Screenwriters Stuart Beattle, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Jay Wolpert.
Standard commentaries. They point out some of the elements from the
Disney ride, the filming experience, the story, and other things. At
the end of the screenwriters commentary one of them explains the
timeline leading up to the beginning of the movie.
-- Jerry Bruckheimer
-- Actors Keira Knightley and Jack Davenport
These are partial commentaries. For Burckheimer it encompasses a
handful of scenes. For Knightley and Davenport it's about 1/3rd of the
movie. Only the parts of the movie with commentary are shown so you'll
skip over lots of scenes. One thing about Knightley is that she's quite
talkative.
Disc 2 Extras
An Epic At Sea: The Making of Pirates
of the Carribean (38 min)
Fly on the Set (21 min)
Diaries
Producer's Photo Diary (4 min)
Diary of a Pirate (10 min)
Diary of a Ship (11 min)
Below Deck: An Interactive History of Pirates (22 min)
Blooper Reel (3 min)
Deleted Scenes (19 min)
"Moonlight Serenade" Scene Progression (7 min)
Image Gallery
Pirates in the Parks
Walkt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (18 min)
There's a bunch of other stuff that's Windows only.
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