The staff at Yahoo! Movies seems to be just a little bit challenged, vocabulary-wise. And facial-hair-wise, too:
That claim that Mr. Depp sported a handlebar mustache is a little misleading. This is the facial hair that the writers claim is called a handlebar mustache:
And this is a handlebar mustache:
They look exactly the same, don’t they? Well, no. They look completely different, but I quibble.
Terribly Write 
July 21, 2016 at 11:09 am
So, please tell us what kind of mustache it is… a fu manchu?
July 21, 2016 at 12:18 pm
According to the American Mustache Institute, it is called a horseshoe.
July 25, 2016 at 9:19 am
The WHAT???????
July 25, 2016 at 10:33 am
Yes, the American Mustache Institute is a real thing. I assume it’s more of an authority on the naming of mustache styles than I am. And than the writer of the Yahoo article is.