Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: parents' guide

Frequent sword fights, close-range shootings and cannon fire; sailors are run through, one is hit by a cannonball, and there are hangings and a few slit throats. A villain slaps the heroine to the ground, and knives are held to throats. Blood is limited.

Frequent bloody, plus bastard, damn, hell and a couple of light uses of God's name. Pirate insults include scum, cur, strumpet and eunuch. No s-words or f-words.

Low-cut dresses, pirates carousing with women in a port town, jokes implying some women are prostitutes, and talk of the cursed crew's lust. A drowning woman's corset is cut away, and later she is made to strip to her underclothes. No nudity.

Pirates drink rum constantly. The hero drinks until he passes out on a deserted island, the heroine accepts wine from the villain, and a tavern scene is full of drunks. Drunkenness is mostly played for laughs.

Moonlight turns the cursed crew into rotting skeletons, skeletons hang at the harbor, and a night raid is tense. A pirate mimes marooned men shooting themselves with their single bullet, and the hero puts a pistol to his own head as a bargaining threat.