As the deposed pirate captain Jack Sparrow, Johnny Depp does not so much walk as sashay into a scene, and he wears more eyeshadow than Tammy Faye Bakker.

NEWYORKER: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

As Barbossa, the pirate who deposed Captain Jack, Geoffrey Rush eyeballs his victims and stretches out his syllables in the taunting manner of Robert Newton, who specialized in stump-legged scoundrels fifty years ago.

NEWYORKER: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Your host and loyal blogger lurched and buckled to the stage like Jack Sparrow , and, sorry to say, I talked about as coherently as the potted pirate.

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In the film, an eye-patched Hopper overacts his head off while chain-smoking, swigging Jack Daniels, and zooming around on a jet ski in some kind of filthy, post-apocalyptic pirate outfit.

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