HIGH SEAS.('Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl')(The Housekeeper)(Movie Review)

What, I wonder, would the great swordsman Errol Flynn have made of Johnny Depp's fey, capering performance in "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl"? As Jack Sparrow, the deposed pirate captain of the Black Pearl, Depp does not so much walk as sashay into a scene, and his center of gravity seems to have risen somewhere close to his Adam's apple--Jack is a man who can't find his land legs. Depp speaks in a rich, deep, but frequently inaudible islands gurgle, his skin is a lacquered bronze, and he has two braided beard strands, like a Chinese sage. In most of the scenes, he wears more eye shadow than Tammy Faye Bakker. Part buffoon, part wandering, ...