What can you say? This movie is maybe, just maybe in the so-bad-it's-good category...depending on your personal taste and criteria. Personally, I wouldn't say so. It's just amazingly bad, and this is actually backed up by comments made by the director himself: I spent nearly two hours listening to a podcast style interview with him, where he commented on all his movies to date (the interview was made in 2019).
Pretty entertaining actually. He does have a sense of humor - and he very much realizes that this movie is an absolute stinker. A lot of things went wrong there, it seems. See, the thing is that the guy (Dennis Devine) has made if not decent, then at least somewhat passable, semi-professional movies. But it seems that he has nearly always worked on a tiny budget - and nearly always completed his movies very quickly (this one was shot in just a couple of days, basically). In the interview he mentions - hilariously - that the big "star" of this movie, Ron Jeremy, failed to show up for one of his scheduled days of shooting...which naturally messed up things for him (Devine).
He also mentions Curse of Pirate Death (what a title!) being a sort of testing ground for a new camera he had acquired, but never really tried before, and that this - well - this influenced the end product too.
Perfectly reasonable, as such. But there still doesn't seem to be much excuse for casting people who clearly can't act to save their lives in almost every role. I mean, Ron Jeremy genuinely is the best actor of the bunch (he at least has some experience "acting" in old school porn flicks that had some semblance of a "plot") even if he seems outrageously miscast as a "professor" (his main scholastic interest seems to be asses, as you'd expect).
Side note: the "actress" portraying the female "professor" is also a porn star - and one who has appeared in multiple other Devine titles over the years (she's a friend of him, apparently).
Anyway, this is a one-star effort - it can't possibly be called anything else. And - no - it's not "so-bad-it's-good". There is literally no reason whatsoever why anyone should waste an hour and some minutes on this utter drivel. But in a weird way, I kinda like it. I don't know what it is, precisely - perhaps I just like the idea that something so insanely bad was made and still exists as a movie people can watch (DVDs were produced, perhaps even Blu-rays for all I know).
