Disney transformed the attraction into a boat ride filled with fictional pirates sacking a Caribbean seaport.

Movies series of Pirates of the Caribbean:

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl became the first Disney Picture to be released that earned a PG-13 rating by the MPAA. The governor Weatherby Swann and his 12-year-old daughter, Elizabeth sail to Port Royal, Jamaica, their ship, the HMS Dauntless happens upon a shipwreck and its sole survivor, the young William Turner. Elizabeth takes a gold skull medallion around the unconscious Will's neck and hides it. She then glimpses a ship with tattered black sails disappearing into the mist.

Captain James Norrington of the British Royal Navy was promoted to Commodore after eight years. He proposes marriage to Elizabeth in that ceremony and Elizabeth faints and falls into the bay before answering. The skull medallion she wears emits a mysterious pulse through the water. Pirate Captain Jack Sparrow arrives in Port Royal, and rescues her. Jack Sparrow was promptly arrested for piracy, but escapes and ducks into a blacksmith shop and he later encounters Will Turner, now a blacksmith's apprentice and self-taught expert swordsman. Sparrow was knocked by Turner and was jailed. Port Royal is besieged by the Black Pearl that night, a pirate ghost ship. The mysterious pulse from Elizabeth's medallion called to them and the pirates ransack the town seeking the medallion. Elizabeth is captured and invokes parley an agreement ensuring one's safety until meeting and negotiating with the opposing side. Elizabeth tells Captain Hector Barbossa her last name as "Turner", in order to protect her identity. She persuades the pirates to cease the attack on Port Royal in exchange for the medallion, but employing a loophole in their negotiation, Barbossa keeps Elizabeth as prisoner.

Will convinces Jack Sparrow to help him rescue Elizabeth in exchange for freeing him from jail, as Will was unable to convince Norrington to take immediate action. After hijacking HMS Interceptor Jack and Will recruit a crew in Tortuga with help from Jack's friend, Gibbs. They set sail for the Isla de Muerta, the mysterious island that Jack knows the pirates will go to break the curse.

On the way to the island, Will comes to know that the Black Pearl was formerly captained by Sparrow. When Jack shared the bearings to a hidden chest of Aztec gold coins, first mate Barbossa and the crew mutinied and deserted Jack on a small island. Jack escaped three days later with the help of rum runners. The pirates found and spent the treasure on the Isla de Muerta but soon learned it was cursed, which turned them into immortal skeletal beings whose true forms are only revealed in moonlight. The curse could only be lifted when every coin and each pirate's blood is returned to the chest. "Bootstrap Bill" Turner sent a coin to his son, William, believing the crew should remain cursed for what they did to Jack.

Barbossa then ordered Bootstrap thrown overboard only to realize later that his blood was also needed to break the curse. A Turner kin must now take his place and believing Elizabeth was Bill Turner’s child, Barbossa anoints the last coin with her blood and drops it into the chest unsurprisingly, the curse remains in effect.

Will suspects Sparrow may betray him to get the Black Pearl back and knocks him out on the island. Will later rescues Elizabeth, and they escape to the Interceptor. Jack trades with Barbossa in exchange for revealing Bootstrap's real child. He wants to captain the Black Pearl. Jack's negotiations come to nothing, however, when the Pearl pursues the Interceptor, sinking her and taking the crew captive. Will reveals that he is Bootstrap Bill's true offspring and demands that Elizabeth and the crew be freed. He threatens to shoot himself and fall overboard so that the crew would never be able to lift the curse. Barbossa agrees but uses another loophole and strands Elizabeth and Jack on a deserted island (the same island that Jack was deserted ten years back) and throws Jack's crew into the brig. Will is taken back to Isla de Muerta for the ritual and Elizabeth burns a cache of abandoned rum to create a signal fire that is spotted by the British Royal Navy, to speed their rescue. Elizabeth convinces Norrington to rescue Will by accepting his earlier marriage proposal. Arriving at the island, Norrington sets an ambush outside the cave while Jack goes inside and persuades Barbossa to form an alliance. He tells him to delay breaking the curse until after they have taken the Dauntless and crew. Jack then sneaks a coin from the chest, rendering himself immortal. But Jack's actual intent is, his plan goes awry when Barbossa orders his crew to infiltrate the Dauntless from underwater. Jack's true allegiance is revealed when he suddenly attacks and then shoots Barbossa. Jack tosses his bloodied coin to Will who returns the last two medallions to the chest, breaking the curse. No longer immortal, the fatally wounded Barbossa falls dead. Realizing they are no longer cursed, the now-mortal pirates surrender to the navy.

In Port Royal, Jack is about to be put to death for his crimes of piracy. But Will rescues Jack, because he believes that Jack deserves to live. Will and Jack are quickly captured, but Elizabeth lends her support and declares her love for Will. Norrington releases her from their engagement and Will is forgiven. Meanwhile, Jack escapes by falling into the ocean and he is rescued by the crew that escaped with the Black Pearl. Norrington is impressed enough to allow him one day's head start before giving chase. Following the end credits, in a final scene on Isla de Muerta, Barbossa's pet monkey takes a piece of the treasure and is cursed once again.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

The Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest resumes directly after the events of Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl. Lord Cutler Beckett, a powerful agent of the East India Trading Company, arrives in Port Royal and arrests Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner shortly before their wedding ceremony, threatening to execute them and the absent ex-Commodore James Norrington for helping Captain Jack Sparrow escape. However, Beckett really wants is Sparrow's magical compass, and he makes Will search for it in return for their release. Will finds the Black Pearl and Sparrow on the island of Pelegosto, a cannibal-inhabited island where Jack and his crew were captured and the cannibals believe Jack to be a god in human form. Jack after meeting his former crew mate, "Bootstrap Bill" Turner, who is now a sailor on the ghost ship, the Flying Dutchman, he went under cover. Bootstrap delivered the Black Spot to Jack, which is the mark that meant his debt to Captain Davy Jones was due. Thirteen years previously, Jones raised the Black Pearl from the ocean floor and made Jack her captain and in exchange Jack must now serve aboard the Dutchman for 100 years or face Jones' creature, the Kraken.

Will, Jack and the crew escape from the island, unexpectedly recruiting Pintel and Ragetti as they are attempting to "salvage" the Pearl, and head to sea. Jack’s magical compass fails to search for a key that leads to an untold treasure. Jack agrees to give Will the compass if he helps him find the key and what takes it to unlock. With the help of Tia Dalma, a voodoo priestess, Jack learns the compass will not work because he does not know what he truly wants or he knows but is unable to claim it as his own. The key, Tia tells him, unlocks the Dead Man's Chest containing Davy Jones' beating heart. When the pain of lost love was too much to bear, Jones carved it from his chest and buried it. The person who possesses the heart controls Davy Jones, thereby controlling the oceans. The Flying Dutchman encounters Sparrow, who deviously attempts to barter Will in exchange for himself. But Jones demands 100 souls within three days for Jack's freedom and keeps Will as a "good faith payment."

Governor Weatherby Swann frees Elizabeth in Port Royal. Confronting Beckett at gunpoint, she forces him to validate a Letter of Marque - a royal document with which Beckett intends to recruit Sparrow as a privateer (a pirate under the employ of the British government) and that Elizabeth wants for Will. Put away on a merchant vessel, Elizabeth lands in Tortuga where she finds Jack and Gibbs recruiting unsuspecting sailors in a pub. A disgraced James Norrington also applies to work aboard the ship. Blaming Sparrow for his ruin, he tries to shoot the captain and ignites a brawl in the pub, but Elizabeth knocks him out to save him from the angry mob. Jack reveals the compass' secret to Elizabeth at the port and it points to what the holder wants most in the world. When he convinces her that she can save Will by finding the chest, she gets a bearing. Once the ship is underway, tension arises between Jack and Elizabeth when each discovers the compass now points to the other. It is unclear if they desire one another or if each seeks the other as a means to obtain what they truly want.

The Dead man’s Chest was found by Jack, Norrington, and Elizabeth on Isla Cruces. Will, who has escaped the Dutchman with help from his father, Bootstrap Bill, arrives with the key that he stole from Davy Jones. Will wants to stab the heart to free his father, but a three-way duel erupts between Jack, Norrington, and Will, each claiming it. The arrival of Jones crew and Ragetti and Pintel trying to make off with the chest further complicate matters. Norrington is the one who ultimately escapes with the heart and the Letters of Marque while Jones crewmen retrieve a now-empty chest. The Flying Dutchman pursues the Black Pearl, but with the wind behind them, but the Pearl outruns her. Jones ends the pursuit and instead summons the Kraken and later Jack abandons the ship in a longboat, but unable to desert his crew, he returns in time to save them. Jack gives the order to abandon ship before the Kraken makes its final assault. Realizing the Kraken is only hunting Jack, Elizabeth kisses him while handcuffing him to the mast. Guilty over her deceit, she tells the others Jack chose to remain behind. Will witnessed the scene and now believes she loves Sparrow. Freeing him from the shackle, Jack charges the Kraken, but the colossal beast drags him and the Pearl to a watery grave. Watching from his ship, Davy Jones declares their debt settled, although he soon discovers the chest is empty.

Norrington presents the heart and the Letters of Marque to Lord Beckett in a bid to regain his career after arriving to Port Royal. Cutler Beckett now controls the seas and the grieving crew seeks refuge with Tia Dalma. Consoling them, she asks if they would sail to the World's End to return Jack and the Black Pearl. When they agree, she says they will need a captain who knows those waters. To everyone's shock, the formerly dead Captain Barbossa descends the stairs, eating an apple, and demanding to know what has become of his ship.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End was released in the summer of 2007 and completed the trilogy of films although other films may be produced starring Captain Jack Sparrow.

Facts about the Pirates of the Caribbean:

References to the Disneyland attractions include (but are not limited to):

*Three uses of the song "(Yo Ho, Yo Ho) A Pirate's Life for Me" by X. Atencio and George Bruns in the opening scene (sung by young Elizabeth), when Jack and Elizabeth are marooned on the island, and in the end by Jack.

*The jail scenes, in which the prisoners try to tempt the dog that holds the key to their cell. Jack says, "That dog is never going to move" although the movie dog eventually does and the one in the ride doesn't. Jack later tries to tempt it with a bone, as does one of the audio-animatronics pirates in the ride.

*The "burning town" sequence, and within it, the redheaded (who slaps Jack), and the "stuffed pirate" drinking the rum spurting out of a barrel -Jack's initial discovery of Gibbs sleeping with the pigs.

*The line "Dead men tell no tales", said by the macaw, which is repeated throughout the ride's narration.

*A quick shot of a skeleton sprawled on the beach of the Isla de Muerta, with a crab nearby

*During the raid on the town, seen is a man being dunked into a well.

*A skeletal Barbossa drinks wine, which trickles through his exposed ribcage, as one of the skeletal pirates do.

*In the battle scene between the two ships, Black Pearl and the Interceptor Captain Barbosa refers to his crew as "bloomin cockroaches" just like the captain in the ride does when his ship attacks a local town fort.

*In Tortuga, we see a pirate drinking rum on top of two barrels and are wobbling just like in the ride.

*There are references to cursed treasure in the ride: including the line "Who knows when that evil curse will strike the greedy beholders of this bewitched treasure?"

*The final cannon shot during the Black Pearl's siege of the town, billows into a Mickey Mouse head shape against the night sky.

*The names of the three main characters are all linked to birds. Jack Sparrow, Elizabeth Swann and William Turner, who was a famous ornithologist (scientist who studies birds).

* Tia Dalma's swamp is a recreation of the opening bayou scene in the ride in Disneyland, complete with fireflies.