10 Harsh Realities Of Rewatching Pirates Of The Caribbean’s Original 2003 Movie

While 2003’s original Pirates of the Caribbean movie is a fun ride, re-watching the blockbuster two decades after its release highlights a lot of issues that viewers might have missed out on. The Curse of the Black Pearl seemed destined to fail when the movie was announced. An adaptation of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean theme park attraction, the movie’s biggest star was Johnny Depp. Depp wasn’t an A-list name back in the early ‘00s despite a few hits, and the rest of the movie’s cast were relative unknowns. Meanwhile, the swashbuckling sub-genre had been home to a string of flops in the decades before the franchise began.