Stunning CGI does not a good film make...

Rating: 4/10 (21 July 2006)

This film lost a lot of the charm and atmosphere of the first PIRATES. Jack Sparrow is reduced to a slapstick device... virtually every scene is him enduring some kind of physical punishment in a stereotypical cartoonish fashion. Re-hashed "Why's the rum gone?" jokes account for about an hour of the actual movie. The Elizabeth Swann character takes a turn of treachery at the end, and the Norrington character was FAR too over the top as a washed-up, down on his luck man of former military status.
I can't begin to tell you how disappointed I was upon leaving the theater. The only marginally convincing character was Bloom's William Turner.
The highest point of the movie was the last 30 seconds.