Too cheeky for its own good, script lacks

Rating: 5/10 (25 December 2012)

Pretty average. OK for a random evening, but quite unmemorable too. Several plot lines are thrown out in the early stages of the movie, but then altogether left alone. There is an attempt at humor, it does work at points, but it also feels a little forced and the whole thing becomes too cheeky because of it.
I had low expectations about Johnny Depp after liking him less and less in recent movies, including Burton's movies. But Depp is OK here. Still, Depp, as well as Eva Green, Johnny Lee Miller, Michelle Pfeiffer, Chloe Grace Moretz, Helena Bonham Carter, while turning in good performances, also are too caricatural. A little too much one-liners. Cheeky is the word. I do not blame the actors, it is the script.
Also, there is some unnecessary CGI/post-processing. For example, the docks and ships at the beginning of the movie look very unnatural.