Capt'n Keef

Now I have finally seen “The Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl”. I’d heard it dubbed ‘the new Indiana Jones’, but this is going too far. It lacks the wit and the imaginative thrills of the classic Indiana Jones trilogy – in all but one area, ultimately the most important: the lead character. Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow is inspired – it’s pretty high praise, I know, but I dare say Captain Jack is a better action hero even than our beloved Indy. Without Depp’s eccentric portrayal (based on Keith Richards! Good ol' Keef, the tree fella, as in, a fella who falls out of trees, like in Fiji, for example) this movie would have been merely another acceptable yet missable actioner, but this is a good and fun movie, and I’m looking forward to meeting Jack again, and that shall be real soon because Shantoozy has been hankering to see it since it came out however many months ago.