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• Awesome Music: The entire soundtrack is probably John Debney's best as well as one of the top modern swashbuckling film scores - or just top film scores, period. The majority of veteran film score collectors consider it far superior to the music from Pirates of the Caribbean, but YMMV, of course.
  • However, it could also be argued that the overly glorious and over-the-top music, especially those (many) moments featuring Ominous Latin Chanting or some variant thereof, makes the comparatively mundane onscreen events seem almost parodic. Spoony, in particular, argued it.
  • What can't be argued is that Debney is just about the only participant in the film whose career actually benefitted from working on it - he remains a prolific, in-demand composer to this day.
• Complete Monster: Dawg. Murdering his own brothers for their pieces of a treasure map is only the beginning. One particular example of something that seems extremely petty and cruel is when one of his crew protests they don't have enough food loaded to leave immediately.

Dawg: "We need fewer mouths!" (fatally shoots crewman)

• So Bad It's Good: Watching the film can give you the impression that it's just a small step away from actually being a legitimately decent movie. Everything, though -- the action, the humour, the dialogue, the romance, the characters -- seem just off, enough to make it Narmy and more than a bit ridiculous. At any rate, it's still enjoyable for its sheer brash terribleness.