REVIEW
					Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
			"Jerry Bruckheimer Action and lots of fun!"
		A Jerry Bruckheimer/ Disney movie. What a combination. In a flashback from about 12 years before the movie takes place, Kiera Knightly’s character as a little girl, is on ship and they talk about pirates. Then they come across a destroyed ship and they pick up a young Orlando Bloom’s character. She takes off his necklace he’s wearing fearing the crew will kill him if they think he’s a pirate.               Back in the time of the movie, they are on an island in the Caribbean. Kiera Knightly takes out the necklace for the first time in many years. There is a long introduction to all the characters including Johnny Depps who is “famous pirate”. Despite his scary costume and makeup, he is very funny. When he comes a shore on the island, that hates pirates and will hang them, he is imprisoned. The necklace gets into the water and calls out to the pirates of the Black Pearl ship. They attack the island and Kiera Knightly is taken with them. It is up to Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp to find a crew and ship and rescue her from the pirates who turn into skeletons/corpses when in the moonlight. There are funny pirates, mean pirates, and others. Orlando finds out Johnny Depp knew his father and tells him about him. It then goes and rescues and gold and fighting and many other things.                 The special effects and stunts are top rate in this movie. During a sword fight at night in a cave with some holes in the roof so the moon shows through, the bad pirate turns into the skeleton while he briefly crosses the into the moonlight and back out. There are a lot like this and it looks great. The pirates in the real form make The Mummy look awful. Great acrobatic stunts with swinging and sword fight is performed and shot way better than the one in Die Another Day. It may have been a little long (2 hours 10 minutes) during the middle my interest was lost a little bit in some parts. The best scene was when Johnny Depp and Kiera Knightly are stuck on the island. It made you feel for the characters more and was a good scene to add. This has some pretty violent scenes mixed with funny clips. There is also more blood than I expected.  Plenty of great action, good cast with great acting, plenty of humor, amazing special effects (some of the best quality and realistic for CG characters and island type stuff), filmed with many wide shots showing enormous sets and boats, and worth it. Still it, lacked something I can’t quite put my finger on it. When you see this, don’t see it 2nd on a double feature day.  :?) GRADE:  A- SHOULD YOU SEE IT?  Yes! (Even if you don’t like pirates)