Corrected entry: When Jack and Will have the canoe over their heads and are underwater, the water would have rushed into the boat from underneath.
Corrected entry: Barbossa explains that because of the curse he can't feel a thing (not wind, woman, food) and sense they all have the same curse. How is it that, near the beginning of the film, Ragetti feels the coals when they fall on him?
Correction: This has already been submitted and corrected. Barbossa states, "Drink would not satisfy...food turned to ash...all the pleasure in the world couldn't slake our lust..." so it seems they cannot "feel" or enjoy pleasure. When the coals fall, Ragetti shouts that it's hot and burns, and later he also complains about his wooden eye hurting him, so it seems that he does feel a certain level of discomfort. When Elizabeth stabs Barbossa he does not display a reaction, however the tolerance of pain is subjective.
Corrected entry: When Elizabeth has burned all the barrels of rum, she tells Jack, "That signal is over 1000 feet high", but the problem is it's the 1700's, she's British and the British don't use English measurements, they use metric. (01:39:15)
Correction: (1) The metric system was introduced in France in 1791, a mere half-century after the setting of the films. (2) Even today, the UK uses Imperial measurements just as much as metric. (3) If you think about your submissions in advance, you might be able to avoid statements as ludicrous as "the British don't use English measurements".
Corrected entry: Will uses his sword to stick Jack's chains to a beam. Jack then kicks him down but, when he gets back up, he suddenly has a sword in his hand without having had time to fetch another one.
Corrected entry: The scene where Elizabeth and Will put the bomb in the skeleton and shove him out of the moonlight so he explodes is impossible. If he were truly solid, there would be no oxygen in his stomach for the fuse to burn off of, therefore he would just have a bomb sitting around in his stomach.
Correction: Considering these pirates were cursed and would go from skeleton to body form by sunlight, are you sure they follow all rules of physics and life?
Corrected entry: When the Black Pearl is pursuing the Interceptor in the overview shot of the two ships, you can see the big flag on the back of the Interceptor and the one on top of the mast. They are flying straight backwards as if with the airstream, however for a sailing boat to move forwards the wind has to come from the back or the sides, therefore making it impossible for the flag to fly straight backwards since the ship cannot move faster than the wind pushing it forwards.
Correction: Nonsense. Sailing ships are perfectly capable of sailing into the wind. It's simply a matter of physics - arranging a low pressure area in front of the mainsail, easy enough to do regardless of the direction of the wind.
Corrected entry: The song that Elizabeth and Jack are singing on the island was aired in 1967. Slight anachronism.
Correction: That is the song in the ride on which the movie is based, so naturally they include it in the film. The movie is a fictional work, so why shouldn't they use a pirate song aired in modern times?
Corrected entry: In the scene where Jack Sparrow is introduced (Number Two to select on the DVD) he has three plaits on his beard. However, as he steps off of the boat, he only has two. As his boat is currently sinking, I doubt that he would have time to change this. Throughout the rest of the movie he only has two.
Correction: This has been corrected many times. It is the shadow of one of the braids that makes it look like three. There are only two.
Corrected entry: In Jack's escape attempt from Port Royal, the first thing he does is grab a rope, release the suspended cannon above, and ride the rope upwards, when he reaches the top of the post, he is shown dangling at the end of the rope as the post that held the cannon swings around rather swiftly. Since the cannon was dropped straight down, and Jack was hoisted straight up, there is nothing to account for the enormous momentum that it takes to swing Jack about like that.
Corrected entry: The actual spelling of the "French" word Parley, is actually Parler.
Correction: In what conceivable way is a French Spelling Lesson considered 'trivia'?
Corrected entry: When Jack gets knocked out by Mr Brown, the bottle shatters. In the next shot, however, there is no glass around Jack.
Correction: When Jack falls, he falls face forward with his body rigid, and by the laws of the physics, the shattered glass would be lying around his feet. And the next shot, where he's lying on the floor, is of his upper body.
Corrected entry: In the beginning of the movie, Elisabeth tells Will "It's OK". The abbreviation "OK" didn't exist at the time of the movie, it came up in the 19th century.
Correction: Is somebody trying to break the record for number of times the same 'mistake' is posted and corrected? Like Troy, Braveheart, Elizabeth and Shakespeare in Love (in fact, almost every film except for 'Passion of the Christ'), 'Pirates of the Caribbean' was shot in contemporary English. This is so modern audiences can understand it. This is a film convention, not a mistake.
Corrected entry: When Jack is holding Elizabeth by his chains, he addresses the Commodore as Commodore Norrington. Thus far, in the presence of Jack, Commodore James Norrington has always been addressed as Commodore, never as Norrington or Commodore Norrington.
Correction: Norrington's a high-ranking officer charged with eliminating piracy in the area. Jack's hardly going to be unaware of who his main opposition in the area is - the reference to Norrington's rank would be enough to tell him who he's dealing with.
Corrected entry: When Elizabeth falls off the fort, Jack, Murtogg and Mullroy who are on the Interceptor hear the splashing and turn around. Jack asks 'Will you be saving her, then?' There is no way Jack would have known it was a woman who fell off.
Correction: They could easily have seen her falling, and she was wearing an ankle length dress, something generally associated with the womenfolk of the time.
Corrected entry: Just after the Black Pearl attacks the Interceptor, Elizabeth realizes that she doesn't have the medallion, and Will goes below to get it. When Will goes below, there is water in the cabin to a level just above his ankles. He searches for the Medallion, then spots Barbossa's monkey, who has retrieved the medallion to take back to Barbossa. Even though the Medallion was on the floor and the floor was flooded, the monkey looks relatively dry. If that furry thing had fished the medallion out of the water, it should have been soaking wet.
Correction: None of the cursed crew including the monkey ever look wet.
Corrected entry: When the treasure chest full of the cursed gold, in the cave at Isla de Muerta, is shown, the figures carved onto the side of the chest are NOT actually Aztec. (01:05:25)
Correction: What's to say that it's of Aztec origin? The Aztecs could have gotten it through bartering with other civilizations.
Corrected entry: In the scene where the young Elizabeth Swann is on the ship and young William Turner is found floating in the water, young Elizabeth says the word "okay," which was not in common usage until the 1830s at the very earliest.
Correction: This type of mistake has been submitted for many other films and while it may not be common that is not the same as being non-existant. There are many explanations how she knew the word, she overheard the word, read about it etc. A word or phrase does not have to be in frequent use to avoid being a mistake.
Corrected entry: At the very start of the film when the young Elizabeth wakes up the young Will, she calms him by saying "It's ok." The earliest this phrase has been recorded is 1839. Which puts its use well after the film's period. In the film, a precedent has been set to use language appropriate to the period (instead of modern language), and this phrase falls outside of that precedent. (00:03:45)
Correction: Previously submitted and previously corrected. A normal movie convention and not a mistake.
Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie, the chains on Sparrow's handcuffs are long enough for him to be able to throw a loop of chain over the rope and grab it in his other hand, but later in the movie when Sparrow is trying to take off his handcuffs the chain is much shorter (not long enough to throw a loop over the rope as he did earlier).
Correction: This has been submitted and corrected already.
Corrected entry: When Norrington arrives on the HMS Dauntless to fight the cursed pirates, some of the naval personnel are fighting no one because the CGI skeletons weren't put in yet.
Correction: This has been previously submitted and corrected. Please search the corrections pages for the explanation as to why it is wrong.
Correction: Not at all - hold an empty glass upside down and submerge it in a sink full of water - the air pressure keeps the majority of the water out, provided the glass isn't tilted.