Waiting on Cinderella

Okay, so I didn't get to watch Cinderella this weekend like I'd hoped to. With myself being sick as well as one of the little ones, not to mention trying to sell my home and having to go to a birthday party on top of everything else I normally do on the weekends, I just couldn't get around to watching the film and checking out the disk.

Instead, I'm giving you, my faithful readers, a look at my review for Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl. While it's one of my earliest and least favorite reviews, it does give the reader a reasonable idea of what is going on in the film. Perhaps I'll rewrite it somewhere in the future. Until then (and until I get a chance to check out Cinderella), this review will have to do. Here goes:

Ahoy, Mateys. Aarghh!!

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a fun romp of a film. It has to be considering it is based on the amusement park ride of the same name. Johnny Depp does a good job as Captain Jack Sparrow. He seems to be about one swig of rum away from oblivion throughout the whole film. Although most folks applaud Depp as the standout performer in this movie, the entire cast is deserving of accolades. Although most of the characters are pretty stock, it's how they are played that makes this film so wonderful. The acting is intentionally over-the-top. Geoffrey Rush plays Barbossa, the greedy, mutiness pirate captain who commandeers the Black Pearl from Depp. Rush brings something to the character that makes him more appealing than say, a Captain Hook. The rest of the pirates are just as greedy and just as mutiness, but their stereotypical behaviors are set off by some brilliant acting. Their are dumb pirates, mean pirates and, of course, one bad monkey.

I won't go into a synopsis of the film. Instead, I want to speak about the overall production and quality of this flick. The special effects are dead on(no pun intended). The way the pirates dance in and out of the moonlight, changing from living beings to rotting corpses, is fun to watch. The battle between the Pearl and the Interceptor is classic, excessive Hollywood fun. Even the sounds of this film are played to perfection. This is one of those movies that makes you wish you had surround sound if you are so not blessed.

So, if you like fun, bold adventure with just a little silliness, Pirates is definitely a fun movie to watch. It'll have you wanting to go eat at Long John Silver's and scream "Aargh" all the way back home. A fun, modern pirate movie in the classic pirate movie vein.