Article: Bruckheimer Pap; Johnny Depp goes it alone as pirate captain.

Were it not for Johnny Depp's crassly reassured character creation of scoundrel pirate Captain Jack Sparrow, there would be nothing to relish in this overlong and witless waste of celluloid and audience time based on a Disneyland ride.

Captain Jack hijacks the fastest ship in the British fleet to rescue kidnapped damsel-in-distress Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightly, Bend It Like Beckham) from the clutches of Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), who has also purloined Sparrow's newly haunted ship The Black Pearl. In addition, Barbossa has stolen a cursed treasure, transforming he and his crew into a band of pirate zombies who must now attempt to break the hex with the blood of Elizabeth's sappy ...

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