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| Original Title |
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl |
| Director |
Gore Verbinski |
| Genre |
Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Action |
| Released |
2003-06-28 |
| MPAA Rating |
Rated PG-13 for action/adventure violence. |
| Rated |
7.9 |
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| Pirates of the Caribbean is a sweeping action-adventure story set in an era when villainous pirates scavenged the Caribbean seas. This roller coaster tale teams a young man, Will Turner, with an unlikely ally in rogue pirate Jack Sparrow. Together, they must battle a band of the world's most treacherous pirates, led by the cursed Captain Barbossa, in order to save Elizabeth, the love of Will's life, as well as recover the lost treasure that Jack seeks. Against improbable odds, they race towards a thrilling, climactic confrontation on the mysterious Isla de Muerta. Clashing their swords in fiece mortal combat, Will and Jack attempt to recapture The Black Pearl ship, save the British navy, and relinquish a fortune in forbidden treasure thereby lifting the curse of the Pirates of the Caribbean. |
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| Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow , Geoffrey Rush as Barbossa , Orlando Bloom as Will Turner , Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann , Jack Davenport as Norrington , Jonathan Pryce as Governor Weatherby Swann , Lee Arenberg as Pintel , Mackenzie Crook as Ragetti , Damian O'Hare as Lt. Gillette , Giles New as Murtogg , Angus Barnett as Mullroy , David Bailie as Cotton , Michael Berry Jr. as Twigg , Isaac C. Singleton Jr. as Bo'sun , Kevin McNally as Joshamee Gibbs (as Kevin R. McNally) |
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Stealing
Spoilers herein.
Disney films usually have a moral. Here they stretch themselves in several
ways beyond
the obvious first-time PG-13 rating. The implicit moral here is that it is
okay to steal so
long as the establishment is unreasonable. And further that there is a
higher justice.
What's interesting is how the Disney machine works. They'll exploit any
cinematic notion
they can to give a thrill if that thrill is somehow tied to increased
admissions. Disney has
the industry's most advanced lab on these matters: they track artistic
notions and
cognitive science in quest of maturing artistic notions as fodder for their
products. This
is no collection of artistic types, but serious scientists, intent on
engineering your
response.
Put those two together and here you have an interesting theft: the wholesale
adoption of
the architectural camera. We saw it in "Nemo" where the whole thing played
with the
three-dimensionality of the space. We saw it in the second Harry Potter
movie, where
they paid lots of attention to the placement of the situation in
relationship to the actual
building of the school. In Hollywood filmdom, this technique -- always
locating the
camera in relationship to a wall -- was developed by Terry Gilliam. That
explains why
Depp works so well with the effect. He knows where your eyes are supposed to
come
from.
Rush has worked on four films that reference the placement of self in space.
These two
together: the good and bad pirates, are both intelligent actors that can
listen to the lab.
This is an engineered product, openly stolen from others (like the equally
well-
engineered "Charlies Angels 2").
It's not as clever as "Nemo," not something you will actually remember like
"12 Monkeys,"
not something that challenges you like "Panic Room" started out to be, not
as self-aware
as "Hulk"s swoops. But it uses the same notions, and uses them well enough
to give a
good ride. Now that this has entered the mainstream, what's next for real
creative types?
Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 4: Worth watching.
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