Pirates of the Caribbean
It's from 2003, before you were born.
- Director
- Gore Verbinski
- Genre
- Adventure
- Star
- Johnny Depp
- Released
- 2003
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About
As of 2026, it's 23 years old.
Pirates of the Caribbean did the impossible in 2003: it turned a theme-park ride into a wildly successful blockbuster, largely on the strength of Johnny Depp's gloriously odd, rum-soaked Captain Jack Sparrow, a performance reportedly based on a rock star and a cartoon skunk that the studio initially feared was a disaster.
Swashbuckling, funny, and full of cursed gold and undead crews, it revived the pirate movie single-handedly and launched a sprawling franchise.
Rollicking, witty, and powered by one delightfully strange performance, Pirates of the Caribbean is the film that proved you really can build a hit out of an amusement-park ride.
