Depp deserves much of the credit for the film’s success, but not all of it. Keira Knightley makes for a spunky and distinctive heroine, and Geoffrey Rush is wonderfully theatrical in a scenery-chewing turn as the villainous ghost captain Barbossa. Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl is a rarity: a big-budget, special-effects-heavy blockbuster based on a familiar property that’s spry and light on its feet, a swashbuckling epic for the era of CGI. But there’s a very good reason his off-kilter take on rascally pirate antihero Captain Jack Sparrow became instantly iconic: It’s an enormously fun and loopy performance that remains untainted by the decade of increasingly tired self-parody that followed.ĭepp’s performance, like the film, benefits from a blessed lightness. In the years since Pirates Of The Caribbean’s release, the notion of Johnny Depp starring in a blockbuster has gone from inspiring curiosity and anticipation to dispirited groans.
Audiences and critics were shocked to the point the film is currently rated the 221st best film of all time on IMDB, grossed well over a half-billion dollars, won Depp his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor, and launched a multibillion dollar franchise. Pirates Of The Caribbean had the element of surprise. Expectations for a Jerry Bruckheimer-produced big-budget adaptation of a theme-park ride were exceedingly low, and star Johnny Depp, an arthouse and critical favorite thanks to his oddball turns in movies like Dead Man and Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, was a perverse choice to headline a big-budget, special effects-heavy family film produced by Disney. Movie: Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearlįrom the vantage point of 2014, it can be easy to forget how surprising the 2003 blockbuster Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl was.
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The IMDB Top 250, Nathan Rabin uses a random number generator to select one of the 250 best films of all time as chosen by the popular cinematic database, and then determines whether the individual ranking of any specific film seems high, low, or just right.
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