Not too impressed

Rating: 6/10 (18 July 2006)

Curse of the black pearl was a great movie. It had everything: a great love story, great plot, strong characters, adventure, humor and all in all, it was fun.
Now, I did not expect much from the sequel because I felt it would be hard to top the first one and I was very right. I was still excited to see the 3 characters together again, which was probably the only reason why so many people also went to see the movie and why it did so well at the box office.
The movie did have funny parts and you gotta love Jack Sparrow, but I was not too impressed with the characters and the ending. Now what the hell happened between Elizabeth and Jack and why on earth would the writers do that? I mean it could have been worse if they actually hooked up, but there was definitely something between them and I did not like that at all. Elizabeth struck me as a different character. She wasn't the girlie girl anymore, who wears the nice dresses and has to be rescued from the pirates. She came off as a much stronger character, and a little more manly and I am not sure I liked that. She only wore a dress for a few minutes in the whole 3 hours. The movie had enough men as it is, and it kinda needed a little bit of femininity in it, which they failed to bring. To me, the characters were a bit too confident and therefore less real than in the first one. They just seemed to have no fear whatsoever, even in very life threatening situations. The whole movie seemed like it was just a bunch of people running around, having fun. Now, the ending. Oh, the ending! When I saw that Jack got eaten by the monster I was thinking: Wow, I had to sit through all of that, but at least it will have a great ending. But, noooooo! Now they have to go save Jack, who did not actually die. What the hell was that? Why couldn't they just end it? I guess they realized that they would make even more money so they decided to drag it on even longer. Maybe it's not about making a good movie anymore and it's all about the money. How sad!!!