{"id":880,"date":"2003-12-28T14:39:52","date_gmt":"2003-12-28T14:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-880.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:18","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:18","slug":"pirates-of-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2003\/12\/28\/pirates-of-the-caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Pirates of the Caribbean<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How can this film not put a smile on your face?  It&#8217;s a classic mix of pirates, sword fights, cursed treasure, and a love story.  Pirate films, like Westerns, seem to belong to a bygone age of Hollywood film making.  We&#8217;ll never see them back in full force, but precisely because of their absence, <i>Pirates of the Caribbean<\/i> is a unique breath of fresh air, touched with nostalgia and spiced with grand adventure.  Johnny Depp throws his whole heart into the utterly over-the-top Captain Jack Sparrow; Orlando Bloom does the honest young man battling to save the girl he loves; and Geoffrey Rush is the wicked Captain Barbossa, doomed to a life of undead misery until he finds the last piece of Aztec Gold.  Every set piece is big and bold, filled with explosive action.  All the pirate stereotypes and clich&eacute;s are present and accounted for, but brushed down and jazzed up for (post) modern times.  A rollickin&#8217; good romp, poppet.  Yarrr!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can this film not put a smile on your face? It&#8217;s a classic mix of pirates, sword fights, cursed treasure, and a love story. Pirate films, like Westerns, seem to belong to a bygone age of Hollywood film making. We&#8217;ll never see them back in full force, but precisely because of their absence, Pirates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_5_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}