Don't let them shape you.

Rating: 1/10 (7 July 2006)

Pirates 2 was the second film which means that it was bound to be darker than the first film (see The Two Towers, Empire Strikes Back, Temple of Doom, Godfather 2 etc...). Unfortunately those responsible for the film felt it necessary to make it darker in a totally unnecessary way. The film was rife with dark spiritualism. One of the characters is some sort of voodoo woman with an upside-down cross hanging in her swamp house. I was OK with film one and the semi ghost story thing but what in the world is the point of taking mild fantasy and adding the element of religious spiritualism. This was too much. I went to Pirates 2 to have some fun and see some swashbuckling. It ended up being uncomfortably dark from a spiritual standpoint. In my opinion totally without any point. It was enough that it more than counterbalanced the "fun" aspect of the film.