Pirates of the Caribbean: A suckers wallet

Rating: 4/10 (10 July 2006)

I thought it odd that the studio only in passing mentioned filming this movie at the same time as it's sequel prior to release. Other studios have not only touted filming double movies at the same time, they have been almost proud of the fact. Not in this case, Disney, and rightfully so, kept this low key. Why, because many movie goers would fore go seeing a movie, if they had any indication that they would have to spend another $9 in 6 months or a year, just to get some sort of a conclusion.
This movie was one "cliche+1" sword fight after another. In POTC: Black pearl, the stunts and fight scenes served to progress the plot and character development, here, it's solely to see "What else can we do?" What, you've seen two guys sword fighting? OK heres, 3 guys, on a beach. Oh wait we need stairs, stairs and sword fights look cool... OK .. how bout a wheel, and they can rotate fighting,, ewww how cool.
There were some rather cute, and funny little jokes here and there, with a handful of scenes from the ride thrown in obviously 'just cause', but in all, a fairly big disappointment. Not even close to the quality of the first.