[Mr. K]

oops- guess I won't be seeing 'pirates' after all...

[BSunday]

I'm still gonna see it. I don't care what the entertainers politics are, just so long as they do their job (ie entertain). Why should I deprive myself of seeing what my daughters tell me is a great flick, just because I disagree with one or more of the actors? It's like punishing yourself for something you didn't do.

[CobaltBlue]

Pirates is really funny, and Johnny Depp is pure physical genius in it, in the spirit of Charlie Chaplin and Harpo Marx, although I have read that he tried to model the role on a cross of Keith Richards and Pepe LePew.

There are some scenes which are too intense for young children, which I won't describe because I don't want to spoil it, but my mature 15 year old enjoyed it, and I wasn't ashamed to see it with him and laugh.

If it sounds like your kind of movie, see it. We can all use more laughter in our lives.

Johnny Depp is an actor. So don't take him so seriously. He lives in France, and made fun of the US boycott of France over the Iraq war. Big deal. He didn't say anything nice about the French government, nor did he say anything nice about Saddam, so he's not a traitor in my book, just impolite.