As the deposed piratecaptain Jack Sparrow, Johnny Depp does not so much walk as sashay into a scene, and he wears more eyeshadow than Tammy Faye Bakker.
As Barbossa, thepirate who deposed Captain Jack, Geoffrey Rush eyeballs his victims and stretches out his syllables in the taunting manner of Robert Newton, who specialized in stump-legged scoundrels fifty years ago.
The most "Stardust" supplies in this department is a hilarious Greek chorus made up of fallen heirs to the Stormhold throne, and Robert De Niro as the fierce captain of a flying pirate ship who's leading a double life.