Aaaaaaaaaargh - Tis a Pirates Life For Me

Rating: 8/10 (23 May 2007)

Quick background. i loved the pirates - the first being my favourite. lots of people will not like this movie. they may find it long, slow and not as brilliant as the first couple movies. but i loved it. the feel of the first movies has still carried through - the slightly dark, very real atmosphere to the movie is a complete contrast to the comical natures of almost all the characters. the humour is brilliant - but one must have a penchant for corny humour, silly puns and very graphic humour. but it's not that it's bad. they do it all very well. that was my catch. at one point, one captain is setting up a line and i predicted word for word what he would say...and he said...and i STILL thought it was brilliant because the acting is so above par. corny humour - silly jokes and pirate humour that you must be able to appreciate for it being that and being pulled off. the storyline itself is not that complex and one may feel that parts of it result in anticlimaxes and some parts are left hanging. but overall the story that is trying to be told, is told. for me, it wasn't about all these nitty gritties. it was about the movie as a whole which is pulled off in spectacular fashion and i can't wait to watch it again.
as a footnote - johnny depp - still brilliant as captain jack sparrow with his mannerisms and craziness but in this movie i even think he was one upped by Geoffrey Rush as Barbossa. without doing anything fantastic, he delivered a performance where you wait for his every line - delivered to piratey perfection. BRAVO!!!