Cheap Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl (Music) (Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jack Davenport, Jonathan Pryce, Lee Arenberg, Mackenzie Crook, Damian O'Hare, Giles New) Price

Loosely based on the popular Disney theme park audio-animatronic ride, one might expect a modicum of good-natured "Yo-ho-ho-ing"--or maybe a little rousing Korngold/Errol Flynn/Captain Blood orchestral romanticism--here. Instead composer Klaus Badelt initially entices us with some sparing Celtic folk charm, then unleashes a furious broadside of symphonic and choral thunder to rival his ominous score for K-19. The composer's fellow German mentor is an obvious influence throughout (the album is credited with a wink as "Score overproduced by Hans 'Long John' Zimmer") but Badelt brings his own muscular instincts to bear throughout. Perhaps shrewdly realizing that genre cliches are nothing if not for reinventing, Badelt delivers his rhythmically nervous Eurocentric sensibilities--sort of Holst duels Shostakovich on the Spanish Main--with the subtlety of a scorching cannonball. It's seasoned with a little romantic respite in the final act, if a bit gingerly, and could no doubt profit by some of Korngold's sparkling melodic verve. But it's a loud, unabashed Summer Blockbuster score at heart; alert the neighbors. --Jerry McCulley

ARTIST:	Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jack Davenport, Jonathan Pryce, Lee Arenberg, Mackenzie Crook, Damian O'Hare, Giles New
CATEGORY:	Music
MANUFACTURER:	Disney
FEATURES:	Soundtrack
TYPE:	Film, Film Music, Original Score, Pop, Soundtrack, Soundtracks & Film Scores
MEDIA:	Audio CD
MPN:	860089
TRACKS:	Fog Bound, The Medallion Calls, The Black Pearl, Will and Elizabeth, Swords Crossed, Walk the Plank, Barbossa Is Hungry, Blood Ritual, Moonlight Serenade, To the Pirates' Cave!, Skull and Crossbones, Bootstrap's Bootstraps, Underwater March, One Last Shot, He's a Pirate
# OF MEDIA:	1
UPC:	050086008971