Rating: PG-13 (action/adventure violence)
Length: 143 minutes

Widescreen 2.35:1 Color (Anamorphic)

ENGLISH: DTS 5.1
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1
FRENCH: Dolby Digital 5.1

English, French

A down-on-his-luck pirate (Depp) comes into port after being kicked off of his own ship by his men. He gets arrested and after an attack on the city by his ex-ship, is inadvertently freed. He and the town blacksmith (Bloom) go after the governor's daughter; the blacksmith's would be girlfriend, who was abducted in the raid. The rest, simply put, is a ton of fun.

Johnny's Depp portrayal as Captain Jack Sparrow is spot on (he was supposedly basing his performance on Keith Richards; the guitarist of The Rolling Stones). There is humor mixed in throughout the movie and it isn't just geared towards children as one would expect since it is a Disney film inspired by a Disney Park ride (I wonder how many parents had to explain what a eunuch is). There are memorable humorous quotes throughout this film.

Will: "This is either madness or brilliance."
Jack: "It's remarkable how often those two traits coincide."

Nothing unless you were expecting something more adult oriented.

• Multiple Audio Commentaries: Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp; Jerry Bruckheimer; Keira Knightley and Jack Davenport; Writers Ted Elliot & Terry Rossio and Stuart Beattie and Jay Wolpert
• "An Epic At Sea": The Making of Pirates
• "Moonlight Serenade": Scene Progression
• "Below Deck": An Interactive History of Pirates
• "Fly on the Set": Featurette
• "Diary of a Pirate"
• "Diary of a Ship" Video Journal
• Producer's Diary with Jerry Bruckheimer
• "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color"
• 19 Deleted & Alternate Scenes
• Blooper Reel
• Image Galleries
• DVD-ROM Features

A good film for the entire family except for the very youngest (even though most people I know let their preteen kids watch it also). The length, 2.5 hours, might be a bit much for some people but the time really does fly by. You'll also want to take some time and watch the extras on disc two.

Gore Verbinski   [POTC: Dead Man's Chest/At World's End, The Ring]

Lee Arenberg - Pintel

[Dungeons & Dragons, POTC: Curse of the Black Pearl/At World's End]

Angus Barnett - Mullroy

David Bailie - Cotton

[The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, POTC: Dead Man's Chest]

Michael Berry Jr. - Twigg

[Mission Impossible III]

Orlando Bloom - Will Turner

[Kingdom of Heaven, LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring/The Two Towers/Return of the King, POTC: Dead Man's Chest/At World's End, Troy]

Mackenzie Crook - Ragetti

[The Brothers Grimm, Finding Neverland, POTC: Dead Man's Chest/At World's End]

Jack Davenport - Norrington

[The Bunker (2001), POTC: Dead Man's Chest/At World's End, Tale of the Mummy, The Talented Mr. Ripley]

Johnny Depp - Jack Sparrow

[Blow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Dead Man, Donnie Brasco, From Hell, The Ninth Gate, POTC: Dead Man's Chest/At World's End, Platoon, Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd]

Keira Knightley - Elizabeth Swann

[Domino, King Arthur, POTC: Dead Man's Chest/At World's End]

Kevin McNally - Joshamee Gibbs

[Conspiracy, Entrapment, The Phantom of the Opera (2004), POTC: Dead Man's Chest/At World's End]

Giles New - Murtogg

Damian O'Hare - Lt. Gillette

Jonathan Pryce - Governor Weatherby Swann

[The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Brazil, Glengarry Glen Ross, Haunted Honeymoon, POTC: Dead Man's Chest/At World's End, Ronin, Stigmata, Tomorrow Never Dies]

Geoffrey Rush - Barbossa

[Elizabeth, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Intolerable Cruelty, POTC: At World's End]

Isaac C. Singleton Jr. - Bo'sun