An oxymoron of a movie: both exceeds and fails to meet expectations

Rating: 7/10 (9 July 2006)

*WARNING! Major spoilers.* I loved this movie, but also hated it at the same time. For pretty much every good thing there was a bad thing. And I would also like to mention that I am a 16-year-old girl--and because of this, Johnny Depp in this movie is hot, and Bootstrap Bill and Davy Jones' Clan are pretty disgusting looking. Now that that's said and done...
Good: The jokes were great, I loved the continuance of the rum jokes and the Captain Jack Fruit Kabob sequence. I thought they were pretty clever, good timing, all that fun stuff. The waterwheel sequence was visually exciting (and comedic at times), and the swordfights were great--maybe even better than the first film's.
Bad: In my opinion, the plot was sort of boring and repetitive. Did the Kraken *really* have to attack the Black Pearl like, three times? (Okay, it might have been two, but still.) Once would have been enough, especially since we had already seen the effects of the Kraken on the other ship. And am I the only one who thought the Kraken was sort of...unexciting? Honestly, it should have been more than a giant squid-plant. I understand the necessary continuance between Davy Jones(aka Squidface) and the Kraken (aka Squidplant), but it should have been more than a transition from face to plant. Get rid of the squids and what are you left with? Faceplant..which is what the lack of anything more in-depth makes me want to do. (Permanently plant my face to the wall...for anyone who missed that.) And of course, the last thing that was bad about the movie? The ending. I'm known amongst my friends to be among the last to understand things, but *I* thought Barbossa was dead; or at least, we were led to believe so. I don't know anyone who has survived a gunshot wound to the chest, but that's just me... And, of course, the fact that we have to wait a year on the last millimeter of our seats.
Overall, I give it a 7 out of 10. What can I say, I'm a big fan of random comedy.