Movies in the Adventure genre
When it comes to the final hour, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, delivers the goods. The last 60 minutes offer adventure as rousing as anything provided in either of the previous installments, Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-05-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Gore Verbinski
Cast: Johnny Depp, Lee Arenberg, Stellan Skarsgård, ...
Before Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was released, its arrival was greeted with skepticism. After all, this was a movie based on a theme park ride. The production went on to be one of the best reviewed motion pictures of ...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-07-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Gore Verbinski
Cast: Johnny Depp, Jonathan Pryce, Naomie Harris, ...
Dead Men Tell No Tales is the fifth entry into a veteran franchise that may finally have run out of both ideas and box office clout. Concerning the latter, this movie isn’t expected to do the same kind of business as any of the previous Pira...
U.S. Release Date: 2017-05-26
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Innuendo)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Joachim Ronning, Espen Sandberg
Cast: Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Geoffrey Rush, ...
Seen in IMAX 3-D. The fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie represents a perfect encapsulation of what the summer sequel tent-pole has become: a half-baked casserole of recycled elements from past installments of the franchise tossed together wi...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-05-20
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Rob Marshall
Cast: Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Geoffrey Rush, ...
For those taking a global view of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, it's very easy to be cynical. This is, after all, cross-promotion at its most blatant. What could be more marketable that one of Disney's most popular theme...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-07-09
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Gore Verbinski
Cast: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, ...
Pokemon: Detective Pikachu isn’t a movie. It’s a cog in a multibillion-dollar media empire, a soulless feature-length example of product placement at its most blatant. The so-called “film” never bothers to tell a story worth telling or...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-05-10
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Director: Rob Letterman
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, ...
Pompeii is a big, glorious, cheesy mess. A fusion of Gladiator and Dante’s Peak, it can’t decide whether it wants to be an action film about coliseum combatants or a disaster flick. Predictably, by trying to be both, it ends up being good as ne...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-02-21
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Cast: Kit Harrington, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Emily Browning, ...
Porco Rosso is an outlier in the early canon of master Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki – too dark and ambiguous for young children and too uneven for older viewers. Although superior to all but the best American-made animated motion pictures of...
U.S. Release Date: 1992-07-18
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Animated/Adventure
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Cast: Shuichiro Moriyama, Tokiko Kato, Akemi Okamura, ...
Irwin Allen would be proud. Poseidon is a throwback - a 1970s-style disaster film made with 2006-era special effects. The movie delivers in most of the ways that matter for a motion picture of this ilk, with Poseidon never trying to be something ...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-05-12
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ADVENTURE/THRILLER
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Cast: Josh Lucas, Freddy Rodriguez, Jimmy Bennett, ...
Predators is Robert Rodriguez's attempt to re-invigorate (but not reboot) the Predator franchise, whose devaluation began with an ill-advised sequel, accelerated as a result of the poorly realized Alien vs. Predator, and bottomed out with the lifel...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-07-09
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Nimrod Antal
Cast: Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, ...