In the scene where the pirates are raiding the Governor's house and a pirate goes after Elizabeth, she tries to fight back by dumping the hot coals from her bed warmer to burn the pirate. He then says "It burns." Since he is cursed, wouldn't he not be able to feel the heat from the coals? [It's likely that he did feel the heat from the coals. As has already been mentioned his wooden eye was irritating him a lot making it seem like part of the curse was that they shall never feel pleasure but still feel pain]

When the pirates start to walk under water to attack the other ship you can see the large black guy in the front line. In the next scene however he is shown to have stayed back at the cave. [Some people think it's because there are two large black guys. One has dreadlocks and looks older (being the one walking under water) and the other one is bald and bigger (being the one that stayed back in the cave). However, no pirates left in the cave were black. The big bald guy was white. You can see this when all three pirates were skewered together and pushed away from the light.] [There are three black pirates. The one who likes explosives (that Will hits with the axe in the first pirate fight); he stays in the cave. The one with dreadlocks (who threatened Jack in his cell) and the really huge one (with the scars; the one who hit Elizabeth) both "take a walk."]

How could Will Turner get out of the ship before it explodes, swim all the way to the Black Pearl, and climb up it in the little amount of time he did it in? [An indefinite amount of time passes between the barrels of powder being lit and the ship exploding. The Black Pearl had time to sail some distance away and tie up the prisoners, so Will may have had time to swim to the Pearl]

Throughout the movie the pirates that fell upon the curse change into skeletal form, whilst they are skeletons they still have earrings, this is impossible because the earrings go through the flesh but while as skeletons they have no flesh at all so the earrings shouldn't be there. Instead the ears appeared to be made out of bone with that pierced instead, this can not be true because the ear is made out of cartilage which shouldn't show as its not bone, and even if it is, the part of the ear they have pierced is the fleshy part not the cartilage. [Many of the pirates still have flesh when they are in moonlight. Geoffrey Rush still has a nose.]

When Barbosa is outside on the deck talking to Elizabeth, his hat is shading his forehead and his eyes from the moonlight, so they should be shown as normal human flesh, not skeleton. [His hat and the rest of his clothes are part of the curse as they are all shown rotting.]

After Elizabeth's dream scene, she gets up and opens the drawer of her bedside table to get the medallion out. She takes out a false bottom to reach it, and the real bottom holding the medallion is full of dust. It shouldn't be dusty with the fake one over it. [Unless the false bottom was absolutely 100 percent airtight (unlikely), dust would find a way to get in anyway. Ask any housekeeper who has to take care of seldom-used items in drawers.]

If having the treasure means that you're cursed then why weren't Keira Knightly or Orlando Bloom ever cursed? [Because Will's father originally GAVE him the medallion -- Will didn't take it from the hoard with the intention of keeping it. Captain Jack Sparrow, by contrast, couldn't resist taking one from the chest for himself (or does it deliberately to protect himself) and winds up under the influence of the curse because of it.]

Port Royal, Jamaica, is built on a low spit of sand south of Kingston Harbor, nowhere more than about ten feet above sea level. The movie set has it built atop hundred-foot basaltic cliffs. [It is never specifically stated that the town in question was on the island of Jamaica. Since the film is a fantasy, we can easily assume that the setting is a fictional port town on a fictional island.] [Even if the city IS meant to represent Port Royale, Jamaica, its look is not inaccurate. It is true that modern-day Port Royale is much different, but that is due to the earthquake of June 7, 1692 that destroyed the original Port Royale and sank it beneath the waves, altering the island's geography significantly. The time period of the movie is before the earthquake, when Port Royale was still a thriving buccaneer haven.]

Before Captain Sparrow and William steal a ship they are walking underwater with a boat over their heads. When they get onboard and are preparing to set sail, they are perfectly dry, clothes and all. [If you look carefully, their clothes are still damp (especially the back of Will). They have also obviously spent some time tying up the rudder with the rope and barrel that Will steps into enroute to the ship; that time combined with the sun will have dried their clothes a little.]

Jack Sparrow doesn't appear to be much older than Will Turner, so how could he have been captain of the Black Pearl before we first see Will as a boy floating in the water? [Johnny Depp was born in 1963, and Orlando Bloom was born in 1977, so it is extremely possible for Captain Jack to be aboard The Black Pearl. Will was about 12 at the time, so Jack would have been in his mid twenties.]

In the final fight between the crew of the Black Pearl and the English soldiers, the wave of soldiers come off of the lifeboat and one of the pirates yells something. In the top left of the shot, you can see one random soldier swinging his sword around at nothing. [If you look closely, the pirate that yells something ("Come on...") just came from below deck. The access stairwell to the lower decks is right in front of the staircase that leads to the helm. The pirate stepped left and forward of the staircase, so he is now at it side. The soldier in question is fighting someone, but that someone is simply blocked by the large end rail of the staircase. His arm can be swinging just for a split second as he is fighting back.]

During the end sequence when Captain Jack swims towards the Black Pearl and is pulled aboard, his hair is awfully dry for being just pulled out of the water. [He's a pirate. He's dirty and rarely bathes. I'm willing to bet his hair is "gross"(for lack of a better term). its oily. oil repels water. And, his hair is braided and such, which never really looks wet, just darker. And most importantly, he has dark hair. I know from experience that dark hair rarely looks wet, even if it is.]

When Will lets Elizabeth go in the cave, he says something about her fiancé. How does he knows about it? He was never told. [Will knew before hand when he was about to be killed by Barbossa. Jack wanders in and talks about how they were all men of their word and how Elizabeth is all set to marry Norrington.]

In the scene towards the end when Jack and Will are surrounded by the guards, Norrington has his sword up against Will's right cheek. The next shot is one of Elizabeth, and when it flashes back, Norrington's sword is by Will's left cheek. [At first the sword is on his right cheek. Then Norrington takes a step forward and says, "you forget your place." Then the sword is on his left cheek. During his step he could have moved the sword to the other side to remind Will that his sword was still at his neck.]

Why are the pirates so worried about Kiera Knightly dropping the medallion over the side of the ship? If she did, they could simply walk across the ocean floor and easily recover it. [The pirates could simply be nervous of having to go through all the effort of finding a very small medallion in a pretty big bay. The currents could move it around and it would take awhile to find, whereas if they make her give it to them it would be a lot easier.]

In general, sailors of both legitimate and illegal trades in that time period didn't know how to swim--for one, they thought it bad luck, and for another it was a waste of energy (if they went overboard at sea and the ship couldn't fetch them before they sank, they'd be dead before they could reach shore). Also, at the end, when Sparrow starts to swim to the Pearl, he does a freestyle (Australian Crawl) stroke. That method of swimming wasn't invented until the 1800's - it's called the Australian Crawl for a reason. Had he known how to swim, Sparrow would have done a breast stroke (hands in front, push forward and out) to get to his ship. [This doesn't mean that no pirate ever learned how to swim. It sounds like the kind of thing Jack would know, and as for him doing an Australian Crawl-- is it so hard to believe he could have come up with it on his own? People swim any way they want. ]

How did Will know his father was dead? Sparrow had been dumped overboard prior to his death (because Turner had the cursed treasure, which was post-Sparrow), and I can't imagine Barbossa writing a letter of condolence to the boy and his mother. [He doesn't know, which is why he moved to the Caribbean to find his father.]

In the scene where Elizabeth is escaping from the Dauntless, she climbs out of the window located in the back of the ship. She makes a rope out of a collection of sheets, and lands in a rowboat and rows away. Escaping out of the window with the sheets makes perfect sense, but where did the rowboat come from if she was in the back of the ship? [In the old days it was perfectly normal for a ship to tow a rowboat behind it. Some sailing ships still do it to this day. It was a matter of available space.]

During the final fight between Jack and Barbossa, they both receive mortal wounds (a sword to the gut and a gunshot). Why then does Jack's wound not kill him when the curse is gone, yet Barbossa's wound stays with him? [Barbossa's gunshot wound happens essentially simultaneously to the curse being lifted. Previous damage does not "catch up to" the characters.]

Every time the moon comes out from behind the clouds at night, it is a full moon. However, since the movie takes place over the course of several days, the moon should not stay in the same phase the whole time. [When the moon first appears (the night when the Pearl is attacking the British port), it is obviously several phases away from a full moon. Also, the story takes place over just a few days, so the moon would appear very close to full throughout most of the movie.]