Johnny Depp was among 1,500 specially invited guests who descended upon California's Disneyland Saturday night for the premiere of the adventure movie in which he stars, "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl."

As noted by the Associated Press, this was the first movie premiere ever to take place inside the 47-year-old park (the movie is based on a ride that opened there in 1966). There was also a 900-foot long red carpet that stretched from Main Street to New Orleans Square that greeted him and others from the film.

These included costars Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush and Keira Knightly and producer Jerry Bruckheimer ("Pearl Harbor" and other critically drubbed spectacles).

"This is surreal," declared Depp, 40, who plays Jack Sparrow in the movie and, according to Disneyland's neighborhood paper, the Orange County Register, was wearing a brown pinstriped suit, two-tone shoes and a brown fedora to the premiere.

"It is both very exciting and very frightening," he went on to tell the Register. "I do appreciate the screams, but it's not something you ever get used to. If you do get used to it, you're in serious trouble."

Olympic ice skating champion Michelle Kwan, comedian Tommy Smothers and former TV child star Danny Bonaduce also were there to see the movie, which was projected on a giant screen set up on Tom Sawyer Island.

So far there has been no word on the quality of the picture, which opens to the public July 9, though Variety reports that only hours before the Disneyland premiere, the movie's visual effects were still being tweaked.

Costar Knightley, 20, termed the experience terrifying, said the Register. (The actress plays the film's heroine, Elizabeth Swann, whose blood is need to break the curse.)

"Look at me, I'm shaking," she said. "I'm not sure how to react to this. Not only am I terrified, but I stupidly wore five-inch heels tonight."

As for what "The Partridge Family" and "The Other Half" star Bonaduce, 43, was doing there, he told the paper: "First, I'm a huge pirate-movie fan. Second, I've been on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at least 100 times. Third, I'm a big Johnny Depp fan. But I hate Orlando Bloom. My wife seems a little too interested in Orlando Bloom."