🤔 The Pirates of the Caribbean movie series, launched with *The Curse of the Black Pearl* in 2003, blends swashbuckling adventure, supernatural elements, and witty humor into a distinctive cinematic experience. Inspired loosely by the Disney theme park ride, the first film became an unexpected hit thanks to its lively action sequences, inventive world-building, and the charismatic, eccentric performance of Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow. The story follows blacksmith Will Turner, pirate Eli