Advantages: Great fun all the family can enjoy Disadvantages: It ends too soon
Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the BlackPearl
Captain Jack Sparrow?s pirate life is thrown into turmoil after his former first mate, Captain Barbossa mutinied and commandeered his ship, the infamous BlackPearl.
Barbossa left Jack on a deserted island thinking that would be the last he saw him, but unfortunately for Barbossa (but not for us) Jack managed to escape.
We catch up with Captain Jack several years later sailing into Port Royal (I say sailing , but the boat he has commandeered is sinking and he?s more bobbing along than sailing really). Once he's docked in Port Royal his mission is to find a replacement ship and fast.
His plan however is sidetracked when whilst trying to charm two of the Governor?s men to let him board their ship he sees a lady fall from the cliff top. The lady in question turns out to ...
Advantages: enjoyable,quite humourous and great cast Disadvantages: none that I can think of
part of the film goes on to show Elizabeth grown up as a young woman and she wakes up from a nightmare. The story goes on to reveal that her father is trying to get her married to a highflying guy called Norrington. It’s one of those classic things where the father/mother wants their daughter to marry a rich, successful man and the daughter doesn’t really have much say in the matter. Anyway Norrington’s plan to marry Elizabeth goes pear shaped when Jack Sparrow comes along.
It turns out that Barbossa, captain of the blackpearl, stole the ship from Jack and now Jack wants to get it back. He goes to Elizabeth’s town to steal a ship so that he can go and find the blackpearl. He gets found out as a pirate though and he ends up saving Elizabeth’s life when she falls into the sea during a pretty funny scene ...
Advantages: Brilliant escapist fun Disadvantages: Bit cheesy at times
Before I start this op I just want to point out that the title does not include a pirate joke and neither will the op itself. It must be possible to review a pirate film without a subtle play on words like ‘this film was well worth the pieces of eight I paid to see it’ (damn).
I went to see Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the BlackPearl last night and I have to say I went in without reading any reviews of it. I’d seen the trailer for it and it looked pretty terrible. I mean, if the best bits were a feisty heroine doing it for the feminists saying “Pain?, you should try wearing a corset!” and a bearded ‘arr me hearties’ pirate letting us know that you should believe in ghost stories “cos now your in one!” (oooh doesn’t it send shivers up and down your timber- damn ...
