Pirates 2: The Overall Disappointment

Rating: 7/10 (8 July 2006)

My overall opinion to the sequel of Pirates of the Caribbean was disappointment. For most people it was hard to follow along with the plot and with what was actually happening (it was hard to write my plot summary, I didn't even know where to start). The thing that I liked most about the first one was its witty humor. This one had its moments, but they were sub par and it seemed like they didn't have enough oomph. The one part that I thought still held up to the first one with the kind of humor it had was near the very begging of the movie when Jack was in that coffin floating off to the sea and the crow starts pecking at the coffin. The audience hears a gunshot from the inside of the coffin that kills the crow. Jack opens up the coffin and then uses a skeletal leg (which was a little disgusting) and starts rowing with it out to sea. That was classic, but nothing else stuck out for me in that kind of way.
In place of the witty humor they put in many battle slash action scenes. I'm fine with that, but it seemed a little too overdone. There were many times that I thought the character had to have been dead because how could they have survived that fall or been able to roll around in a "water wheel" (or whatever those things are called). The first "octopus" (I could never really hear what that thing was called) scene seemed to be fake. The arms of it didn't have the right lighting and they had that soft animation look to it. As the movie progressed it looked more real (unless I just got used to it).
Will and Elizabeth didn't get married, but there was a definite make out scene, but it was Jack and Elizabeth? Wha? She didn't have to make out with him in order to lock him on the boat. And Barbosa comes back? I see that he could have from the scene after the credits on the first one, but why put it at the end? Since I saw it just last night I'm still thinking over it, and I don't completely know what to think of it. If "Pirates 2" was not a sequel and it was just a movie by itself I would most likely have enjoyed it more so. But since it was the sequel to THE "Pirates of the Caribbean" it was a let down and didn't really have anything to do with the first one except for some of the characters. I have this theory of the "Pirates" trilogy. I think it will be like the "Indiana Jones" trilogy. The first one is really good, the second one was okay, but nothing really amazing and then the third one blows us all away. At least this is what I am hoping.