Pirates of the Caribbean
Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Jack Davenport, Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom
Details: US / 133 mins / (12PG).
The kind of oaf that his peers refer to as a 'swishbuckler', Captain Jack Sparrow (Depp) is an outrageously over the top creation. His character may be fairly adverse to Barbossa (played with ruthless abandonment by Rush), but the two actors' pure campness is a unified front, unparalleled in modern cinema history. For a Bruckheimer production, the narrative strikes a neatish balance between comedy and action, with the matinee-style plot wobbling around like a dodgy but thrilling ride at an amusement park (which is precisely where 'Pirates of the Caribbean' owes its inspiration from). It's a bit too long, two-and-a-half hours, when a director of more strategic means than Verbinski could have dealt with the plot in a no-less-thrilling 100 minutes or so. Still, for his lax pacing there's precious little the director tries that he doesn't get away with, thanks to the frothy tone adopted, those action sequences and the wonderful production values. Oh, and not forgetting those quite insane performances.
Review by Garreth Murphy
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emmmzzz
This is the tale of captain jack sparrow.... Pirate so brave on the seven seas...... a mystical quest to the isle of Tortuga.... Raven locks sway on the ocean breeze!
Posted 05/09/2011 18:53:03
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