Movie Review: Pirate of the Carribean

             Move over X-Men, Terminators, and Hulks. Make way for the sizzling swashbucklers whose comical saga makes for some serious laughter.
             You would think it is a curse to have to transform a theme park attraction into a summer cinematic spectacle, but shiver me timbers, the only hex that burdens Disney¡s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is its unwieldy title. Walt Disney Production with director Gore Verbinski produced a film that will quench all your pirate needs-sailors swinging from ship ropes, sword fights, cannon balls flying through the air, and glistening pirate bounty. The setting is beautifully placed ranging from old Western houses, black fortress, and sturdy pirates to haunted caves full of treasures and riches. This, my friend, is a big-budget popcorn-filled movie that delivers what moviegoers hunger for: humor, action, thrills and charismatic characters. Every scene, I guarantee you mate, will inspire you to live your life as venturous, danger-defying pirate! I mean it - the movie got me singing ¡§yo ho ho¡ in the bathroom for months. If you desire to know why proceed on ¡K if you dare¡K yo ho ho and a bottle of ¡K wait a minute (Sorry ¡K I got carried away there.)
             It all started eight years ago, when the Black Pearl mutinous crew, led by second-in-command Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), dumped its notorious captain, Jack Sparrow (a hilarious and heavily mascara-ed Johnny Depp), on a deserted island and made off with a chest of Aztec gold pieces that inhabit with a dire curse: whosoever removes but a single coin is eternally doomed. The Black Pearl's wretched crewmen have consumed neither grub nor grog for nearly a decade, and moonlight reveals what they've become: creepy, crumbling skeletons. To lift the curse, the rotting corpses must return all 882 gold pieces to the chest, including the one that now hangs from the lovely neck of Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), feisty daughter of Por...

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