This movie was great

Rating: 8/10 (1 September 2007)

Overall I thought this was a great movie and a good way to follow up on the first. The only thing that I have to say against it is that you with all the different plots it took me a couple of times of watching it to understand what was going on (also the battle between The Black Pearl and The Flying Dutchman was a little iffy to me in how it was thought up but when you think about it, it's pirates so what do you expect). The movie actually reminded me a lot of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back in how something happened to the hero in both movies (Han Solo got put into carbon freeze and Jack git sent to Davey Jones' Locker) as well as how the main characters were constantly pursued by Davey Jones and the East India Trading Company. One thing that I noticed the first time watching it is that you see a different side of Jack in this movie than in the first movie in that he's not the quick-witted, mad, rum-drinker but more of an urgent, sort of cowardly and sometimes ruthless individual trying to get away at all costs. To be honest the love plot between Will and Elizabeth was really getting on my nerves but the idea of Norrington coming back as a drunk was hilarious. But overall the main reason why I liked this movie was because of Davey Jones who in my opinion is the poster-villain from here on in as everything he said and did was just ruthless (I still can't get over the first line he says in the movie when he threatens the dying sailor and he's smoking a pipe as he says "Do you fear death?" and even worse when the other sailor declines his offer to join his crew and he signals his second-in-command to kill him)- whoever had the idea of inserting DAvey Jones in the sequel was a genius because that separated the second from the first and in effect possibly made the second into its own movie.