Entertainment Weekly
"...It's ornate and breathless..." 07/18/2003 p.53-4New York Times
"...An often frenetic, colorful and enchanting comic adventure....The dazzling, high-flying silliness is quite an achievement..." 07/09/2003 p.E5 USA Today
"...A big-budget popcorn movie that delivers what moviegoers hunger for: humor, action, thrills and charismatic characters..." 07/09/2003 p.4D Chicago Sun-Times
"...[Depp's] performance is original in every atom..." 07/09/2003 p.55 Variety
"...[With] disarming humor, engaging acting and colorful action bursts..." 07/14/2003 p.22-32 Rolling Stone
"...Depp swans through this swashbuckler with a scene-stealing gusto unseen since Marlon Brando in MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY..." 08/07/2003 p.78 Box Office
"...Depp casts a spell every bit as powerful as any demonic bullion..." 09/01/2003 p.124 Sight and Sound
"..The most satisfying of this summer's blockbusters....Lively, humorous and well-cast..." 09/01/2003 p.59-60 Us Weekly
"...The swashbuckling smash stars a hysterical Johnny Depp..." 12/15/2003 p.84 Total Film
"[Depp's] dippy delivery gives Gore Verbinski's pirate swashbuckler its gleeful sense of salty swish." 07/01/2006 p.128 | 
