Short version: Darin and I give it two thumbs up.
Pirates, cursed gold, swashbuckling, Johnny Depp as a completely bonkers and wonderful pirate, and Orlando Bloom finally, finally, finally a brunet. (Blonds have zero appeal for me. I don’t know why that is, but it’s always been true.)
It’s overlong but hilarious. We had a great time. Johnny Depp is wonderful as the pirate who’s described as being not unlike Keith Richards, but since I don’t know what Keith Richards is supposed to be like, I don’t know what that means. I do know that Captain Jack Sparrow is one of the most fun characters to come down the pike for a while.
Damn, it’s so much fun to watch a movie where there’s an actual story. And how depressing is it that those movies are few and far between?
(And if you’re wondering which exchanges were in the movie and which were ad-libbed, check out Ted Elliott’s post on Wordplay about it. Short answer: 99% of them were in the script.)