Too long and too bland

Rating: 6/10 (22 July 2006)

LIke the first movie, this one was about an hour longer than it had material for. The plot wandered and floundered about, then sort of came to a conclusion....but not really.
By the half-way point, I found myself paying more attention to the CGI than to the movie. I wish I had waited until it came to the dollar theater, but in the end, half of the time I was in the theater, I was sort of enjoying myself.
Bloom and Depp were solid if unremarkable. There was little of the flair and panache jack Sparrow had in the first movie. Knightly was gorgeous, and delivered her lines with reasonable effect, but little about her performance was memorable.