Pirates of the Caribbean: Yaaarr

Like millions of people this weekend, I went and saw Pirate’s.  I’ve casually heard the mediocre reviews that the guys who get paid real $$$ to watch movies and type some 200 words and give their personal opinion that is barely good enough to be worthy of a weatherman who predicts a 50% chance of rain.

Pirates of the Caribbean is an excellent movie, I’ll just get that out front.  I enjoyed it from the get go.  Its pretty obvious that people who don’t get it just aren’t into this genre of movies. But if you watched the last movie, then you’d quickly see how the point of this movie is to do a few important things:

  • Bring Jack Sparrow back from the dead, and we quickly know why.

  • Figure out how Barbosa came back.

  • Settle some scores with Davy Jones.

  • Put the British East India Tea Company out of business.

  • Help Orlando Bloom’s character get his dad freed.

  • Finally turn Kiera Knightley into a Pirate.

The movie has lots and lots of twists, turns, backstabbing, and fighting, and it was exciting, just about non-stop.  And any guy who wasn’t thinking how cool it would be to be sailing on the high seas, battling it out with a crew of scurvy bilge rats should have gone to watch “The way we were” on DVD.

Leave it to Disney to prove that Pirates aren’t all just Johnny Depp look alikes.  Every culture has its share of thieves and pirates, and in this movie we are allowed to see them all.  There is a lot of adult humor, and a lot of Disney humor, (if you’ve been on the ride).  The perpetual gag of the dog with the Key is great.

They say that Dead Men Tell no Tales, but this is a great tale, and a fun adventure that wraps up a little Ulysses and a bit of Robert Louis Stevenson in a tale that will in fact take you to the World’s End.

Have fun with this movie and enjoy it.  If you don’t get everything the first time, you’ll get it the second time i’m sure.

It is ironic that this is a movie about pirates, because it seemed to be much more a movie about Sailor’s and their love for the journey of the Sea.  What more did these pirates really want more than to love the ladies, and to drink good rum?

This is SailorJ!

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