Fun as not seen in hollywood in a while! - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Reviews

First, I must comment on the ignorance of many professional critics to write this off as worthy only of a B. One would think that in all of their film wisdom they would be able to realize that people aren't always out to see a movie that reaches into the dull depression of humanity. I for one thouroughly enjoyed the escape from reality this movie forced me into. I went into the theatre thinking this would be a mediocre movie filled with all the cliches that come along with pirates. But I must say that I left the theatre simply wanting more. This movie truly is pure excitement. Everyting about it rates A- quality. The story incorporates the popular ride perfectly. It's hard to believe that a movie like this can be written from nothing but a simple five minute boat tour. The ride and every part of it is represented in the movie. Aside from that miracle, the story works flawlessly as the swash-buckling, sword-wielding caper this is meant to be. It ends up having everything that anyone could ever want in a pirate movie. Sword fights, comedy, romance, intrigue, dueling ship cannons, mystery, legend, etc. To accompany the great movie script comes first rate acting. Johnny Depp was incredible and far from cliched in the most hilarious role I can say I've seen him in. Orlando Bloom delivered in his somewhat self-righteous but overly valiant and charming role. He showed that he can do more than just string together a five word sentence as displayed in the two Lord of the Ring movies and Black Hawk Down. Kiera Knightley played her role quite possibly as well as director Gore Verbinski would allow. Honestly, would we all want our damzile-in-distress to be the next G.I Jane? I think not. Her role was to throw in the shrieks and fall in love, not much else. She was exaclty what was needed for the role. Greggory Rush played the perfect ghostly pirate we've all been cravng for in a movie for quite some time now. The directing was first rate as well. Gore Verinski's directing was excellent. He seemed to bring out the child fantasies in every one, at least in my local theatre. He brought out what seemed to be exaclty what he wanted from each of his actors(including Kiera), making the movie wholely believable and as entertaining as possible. Also the special effects were incorporated into the film seemlessly. This movie is the type of fantasy the movie theatres were built for. A lot of people like to delve into the poetry of life, in fact, I'm one myself. But I consider those film. Pirates of the Carribean is a movie. A hilarious, breath-taking, and all around fun one at that. Someone please inform me when movie critics can make that distinction. Maybe when they do I'll read one of their reviews for a MOVIE as excellent as this. In my advice, don't listen to the critics on this one. Show them that we, the average film-illiterate citizen love to see movies like this. Maybe they'll come off their high-horse and realize how much fun they too had at this. I think we all owe Disney a debt of gratitude for reminding us all of our childhood pirate dreams. Hopefully we'll have more movies like this. For the time being though, see Pirates of the Carribean. It is truly the most fun we've seen come out of Hollywood in quite a while. ( The PG-13 rating is for some action-violence, some scary images, and the word B****** used once. Overall I think an eight year old could handle it just fine.)