Just didn't do it for me

Rating: 6/10 (4 June 2007)

After seeing Pirates 3 all I can say is what happened to the interesting, although still funny and lightheartedness that was the first film. I did somewhat enjoy this film but I only enjoyed the imagery and practically nothing else. The characters of the first film were hardly recognizable in this and it was not a good thing. Jack Sparrow just didn't seem to have that comedic attitude as before and the parts were suppose to be funny just weren't. The character of Elizabeth seemed to be mostly out for herself and nothing more. I will say that Will was mostly the same, an idiot, but at least before his idiocy was charming and entertaining. In this film I did not really care whether he was there or not. Davey Jones was better than before but, I still didn't find him all that great. I will say that the only character that I felt stayed rather awesome was Barbosa, he was cool.
Overall I just wanted the movie to end after about 2 hours, and whenever there was a lame attempt at something funny I just had to think back to the times of the first to keep me from falling asleep. I also thought the first movie was great for young and old alike because of the cheesy but still fun battles. The battles in this movie were all huge spectacles, which are cool, but I wanted another Jack/Will sword fight in the blacksmith shop. I am not going to get into the plot because it has been done in all the other comments, but I will say it was way to complicated especially when thinking of the younger audience members.
I really wanted to like this movie, and tried again and again throughout the film to like it but just couldn't. I think the only part that I really liked was when Jack was back on the sunny port being himself and not being pulled into the boring Gray abyss of Davey Jones locker.