Johnny Depp reinvigorates the flamboyant, outrageous, reprobate rogue (not unlike Lee Marvin in "Cat Ballou"), opposite wily, smirking, villainous Geoffrey Rush. Orlando Bloom is a romantic Errol Flynn look-alike, while Keira Knightly is a feisty damsel. Written by Ted Ellliot and Terry Rossio, directed by Gore Verbinski, it's Disney's first PG-13 rated movie. While there's no sex, nudity or profanity, there are intense, supernatural CGI scenes of pirates becoming ghostly skeletons in the moonlight. It's fun, scary stuff that blows you out of the water! Yet at 140 min., "Pirates" is also too long; the middle section really drags. On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "Pirates of the Caribbean" is an exciting, escapist 8. Yo ho! Yo ho! And at Thanksgiving, Disney will release another theme-park ride/movie: "The Haunted Mansion."