Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Review

Overall Rating

Amazing cast, great acting, great action.

None really, apart from I thought the film could have expanded the adventure to a few more locations (though I appreciate filming on an entire island must have cost a bunch, even for a film with a big budget!)

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a great theme park attraction and is perhaps up there with the 'Haunted Mansion' and 'It's a Small World' in terms of being one of the most recognisable rides in theme park history. Every detail of the attraction is flawless from the amazing animatronic animals right down to the hairs on the pirates'legs. Making a film of such a wonderful attraction would be hard-going but with an all-star cast (most notably Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow) breathing life into 'Pirates' characters they have certainly accomplished it. Orlando Bloom leads the film as Will Turner, a humble swordsmith who one day encounters cheeky adventurer Jack Sparrow and thus ends up questing for treasure and trying to rescue his love Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) from Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) and his band of undead pirates (including Mackenzie Crook from TV's 'The Office'). One of the best films of 2003.