It also gives us a new pirate image to ponder.Īfter Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power, here is Walter Matthau as a pirate? Matthau is only partially visible behind his makeup and his costumes, but the part we can see appears to be totally at a loss to answer this question: What is Walter Matthau doing on the bounding main, wearing a peg leg? The movie stars Matthau as Capt. This movie represents some kind of low point for the genre that gave us Captain Blood.
Audiences aren't cajoled into feeling that they should be having fun they simply are having fun because the movie is too.There hasn't been a pirate movie in a long time, and after Roman Polanski's "Pirates," there may not be another one for a very long time. That's a lesson that nearly every one of its blockbuster rivals would do well to take on board. Best of all, Pirates is a film that prides itself on lively detail and top-grade craftsmanship, but doesn't take itself too seriously.
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When they step into full moonlight, their rotting flesh and bones become visible adding a delightful shiver to proceedings. The ghostly figures on the Black Pearl are cursed to sail the seas in a state between living and dead. That said, its adventure style is indebted to the likes of Raiders Of The Lost Ark and The Mummy in its mix of matinée action and horror that won't send the kids shrieking from the room. Without a previous formula to adhere to or franchise to maintain (the spin-off ride exists already), Pirates revels in its freedom to do its own thing. Others clearly having a ball while gigging in the rigging include Geoffrey Rush with his panto Captain Hook routine, and CG-eyed pirate Mackenzie Crook (from The Office). Orlando plays it straight but gets the girl and if you think Keira looks good in a dress, wait until you see her running around in redcoat and breeches. In terms of physical precision and verbal delivery, it's a masterclass in comedy acting.ĭepp steals the show, but leaves some plunder for Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley, surely the sexiest young couple in British cinema - nay, the world. "Yes," replies Jack, "but you have heard of me." Gloriously over-the-top, this performance is pitched only as high as the film's fun factor itself. "You are, without doubt, the worst pirate I've heard of," says one British officer. There's an endearing dignity to Sparrow's hunger for fame. Depp, arguing that pirates were the rock stars of their day, models his entire performance on Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones: it's there in every slurred vowel and every drug-fried wiggle of the head. Shrek writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio spice up the pirate genre as gamely as they did fairy tales but on the comedy map it's Johnny Depp's inspired turn as Captain Jack Sparrow that really marks the spot. But such cares are swept aside by a rollicking tale of pirate lore, with cursed treasure, secret identities and enough acts of betrayal and loyalty to keep the final showdown as sparky as the firecrackers in Blackbeard's whiskers. If there's the slightest niggle to be had, it's probably that the swashbuckling sequences don't really lay down a challenge to the Zorros or Robin Hoods. Pirates Of The Caribbean is, without a doubt, the best blockbuster of the summer.ĭirector Gore Verbinski steers his ship through choppy commercial waters by keeping the romance, adventure and comedy on an even keel. But producer Jerry Bruckheimer proves yet again that he's a big-screen alchemist where sheer entertainment is concerned. Pirates Of The Caribbean does, in actual fact, have its roots in a theme park attraction - a slow-moving boat trip past richly detailed tableaux of lusty buccaneers and skeletons who breathed their last grasping for forbidden treasure not the most likely base material to turn into cinema gold.
Year after year, lazy poster quotes try to convince audiences that the latest blockbuster movie is "a rollercoaster ride".
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