Trapped aboard, Will Turner barely escaped being killed himself when the ship exploded. After taking Sparrow's crew aboard his own ship, a fuse was laid, leading to the Interceptor's gunpowder magazine. However, the Interceptor was destroyed in battle after being captured by Hector Barbossa and the cursed crew of Black Pearl. At this time, Sparrow and Turner promised the ship to Anamaria, whom he owed a vessel - after stealing (and losing) hers (the Jolly Mon). Sparrow had disabled the Dauntless' rudder chain, preventing the Dauntless from turning to fire its cannons at the Interceptor, and thus saved it from being destroyed.ДЄt Tortuga, Sparrow, with some help from his trusted first-mate and friend Gibbs, gathered a crew to man the Interceptor and hunt down the Black Pearl. Once the Interceptor had pulled alongside the Dauntless, Sparrow and his accomplice Will Turner, swung to the smaller vessel and commandeered her. The ship was once under the command of Commodore James Norrington until she was stolen by Captain Jack Sparrow and Will Turner after faux-hijacking the much larger HMS Dauntless. With cutlasses and cannonballs whizzing about, people are bound to get hurt (or worse), earning the film a PG-13 rating.The HMS Interceptor was a brig hailed by the Royal Navy to be the fastest ship in the Caribbean. When Barbossa and his crew turn into walking skeletons in the moonlight, the high-tech camp kicks in, and Pirates takes on the trappings of a good old-fashioned horror film. With his quick-footed sword fighting and dashing good looks, Bloom (best known as Legolas in the Lord of the Rings films) seems cut out for the adventurous role of Will Turner. Knightley (Bend It Like Beckham) is strong as Elizabeth Swann, a confident damsel who resorts to as much action as the film's male heroes to alleviate her distress. In addition to Depp, the rest of the cast performs admirably. Good is good and evil is evil, at least at first, but fortunately this standard Disney paradigm becomes less obvious as the characters come to life. Lavish sets and costumes make Pirates a visually appealing and convincing period film, showing the British Royal Navy at the peak of its power, patrolling the Caribbean for blackhearted pirates. But otherwise the film delivers suspense, romance and dread in requisite doses. The story takes some needless turns as all parties sail toward confrontation on the mysterious Isla de Muerte, causing Pirates to drag on a bit too long.

What our heroes don't know is that Barbossa and his crew are under the sway of a cursed treasure, doomed to live forever as the undead until the treasure is returned and a blood debt is repaid.

They in turn are hotly pursued by Elizabeth's betrothed, Commodore Norrington, aboard the H.M.S. The two steal the fastest ship in the British fleet, the H.M.S. Her secret love interest, Will Turner ( Orlando Bloom), joins forces with Sparrow to save her. When Barbossa and his crew reach the British colonial town of Port Royal, they kidnap Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), the governor's daughter. Though he seems perpetually drunk and looks like a pushover, Sparrow becomes surprisingly deft when swords cross.

Johnny Depp slurs and staggers his way around the Caribbean as the pirate Jack Sparrow, a captain without a ship, having lost command of the Black Pearl to a mutinous crew led by Captain Barbossa ( Geoffrey Rush).

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