According to the official Pirates of the Caribbean Trading Card Game, Jack remains cursed because he was the only member of Barbossa's mutinous crew not to place his blood upon the Aztec gold.
Why is the monkey still undead in Pirates of the Caribbean 2?
Chiquita reprised the role of Jack in On Stranger Tides. The "Jack the Monkey" card in the Pirates of the Caribbean Trading Card Game states that he was the only member of Barbossa's crew not to put his blood on the Aztec coins, hence why he remains cursed.
Geoffrey Rush as Captain Barbossa: The captain of the Black Pearl, he was Captain Jack Sparrow's first mate before he led a mutiny ten years before. He and his crew stole cursed Aztec gold, for which they are cursed to walk the earth forever.
Back on the Dauntless, Barbossa's crew reverted from undead skeletons to normal pirates. But their joy was short-lived, as the now-mortal pirates found themselves surrounded by the Dauntless crew, dropping their weapons and surrendering.
Capuchin monkeys are one of the most widely used primates in television and movies from all over the world. Remember Ross's little monkey, Marcel, in the series, Friends and Captain Barbossa's monkey, Jack, in the Pirates of the Caribbean movie? Those were both species of Capuchin monkeys.
It is widely reported that in his nine years of employment with the railway company, Jack never made a single mistake. Jack died of tuberculosis in 1890. His skull is in the collection of the Albany Museum in Grahamstown.
"You're welcome." Jack the Monkey, or simply Jack, was the second pet monkey owned by the black-hearted Captain Hector Barbossa. Mockingly named after Captain Jack Sparrow, this capuchin monkey was considered the meanest, most rotten-tempered simian in all of the Caribbean.
Since Sparrow spends more of his time being tussled by the waves on board a moving ship, he's not accustomed to walking on dry land and is therefore ironically unbalanced when on solid ground.
The only reason the pirates thought Elizabeth would have any bearing on the curse at all is because she lied, saying that her last name was Turner in an attempt to hide her identity as Governor Swann's daughter. The crew needed a Turner to reverse the curse.
The ousted Captain Jack Sparrow wasn't party to the theft, so he isn't cursed by it until he tactically allows himself to be in his final fight with Hector Barbossa. However, Jack's history with the Pearl exposed him to a different supernatural danger.
Right before the film's climactic battle with the pirates at Isla de Muerta, Sparrow swipes a cursed coin from the treasure chest, making himself immortal and capable of dueling Barbossa. He shoots his nemesis with the pistol he has carried for ten years just as Will breaks the curse, killing Barbossa.
In 2014, Terry Rossio was asked why the number of Aztec gold pieces is 882. Rossio responded by saying a lot of work was put in on arriving at that number, and it all had to do with Geoffrey Rush's (Barbossa) enunciation. And 882 was a number that had interest and a lyrical rhythm.
According to an answer to a question from this leaflet from the At World's End DVD: Will's father is not alive—he and all the other crewmen on the Dutchman are in a state between the living and the dead. Elizabeth will not survive the journeys where the ship must travel—so she is not able to join the crew.
Along with Depp's Jack Sparrow, Geoffrey Rush's Captain Barbossa is the only central figure to appear in all five movies. However, Barbossa sacrifices himself for his daughter at the end of the fifth movie, so it seems unlikely he'll return outside of a flashback of some kind.
Even after the curse was lifted in the first movie, Barbosa's monkey Jack remains undead. In Dead Man's chest, Jack trades the monkey with the witch and shot him and pronounced him as undead.
Her speed is derived from several factors such as the large number of sails she carries and being partly supernatural. As stated in Dead Man's Chest and At World's End, the Black Pearl is "the only ship that can outrun the Dutchman" and this is evidenced in the maelstrom battle between the two ships in the movies.
In the film, main character Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) uses the question Savvy? to punctuate threats, jokes, and other swashbuckling statements. This savvy calls back to its roots for “do you understand?” with the sharp bark of a “Do you hear what I'm saying?”
He sees the Black Pearl as the ultimate instrument of his free lifestyle, the thing that makes piracy possible for him...and his number one motivation and love is the freedom to do whatever he wants, whenever and wherever he wants.
Johnny Depp's research for his role in PotC led him to discovering that pirates wore kohl (along with grease and soot) to shield their eyes from the sun, and this is why we see Jack Sparrow wearing "eyeliner" in the PotC series.
When they fell under the Aztec Curse, Barbossa and his crew suffered a living death, feeling and tasting nothing: "... drink would not satisfy; food turned to ash in our mouths." The pirate captain himself was tormented by flavorless apples. He longed to be mortal so that he can once more taste the flesh of the fruit.
Barbossa also lost the Black Pearl to Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, who attacked the ship without warning and used the power embedded in the Sword of Triton to turn the ship against his crew. This attack forced Barbossa to escape with his life by cutting off his right leg via self-dismemberment.
Even after all they have been through, Barbossa was secretly an admirer of Jack's incredible escapes. Sometime after his first mutiny on the Black Pearl, Barbossa kept a capuchin monkey, which he named "Jack" after his old captain Jack Sparrow.
