Sadly, Jack, the saving grace of the original, ruins this one by being a morally decrepit "hero" you can't cheer for

Rating: 4/10 (2 August 2006)

The biggest disappointment of the summer, because the hero wasn't a hero. Jack sparrow wasn't remotely lovable in this movie (maybe because he sold the man who saved his life to a fate worse than death, and tried to steal his girlfriend in a way that wasn't remotely humorous, like it was in the first film. Another thing that bothered me was his "signing up" hopeful sailors for said fate worse than death under the pretense of joining his crew, which bares an eerie resemblance to the Nazi's telling the Jews they would get showers, when really sending them to the gas chamber. As such, it is dreadfully difficult to cheer for anyone in this movie, and when you thing Jack is dead, you feel like, "Why is everyone so upset, he was horrible", and that is certainly not the Jack we fell in love with four years ago. Plous the pacing is bad, and there are some random parts that totally didn't need to be in the movie, like the part on the island with the natives--funny, but did not add anything to the story but half an hour to spend in an uncomfortable chair.