Good, but could've been better

Rating: 6/10 (7 July 2006)

Pirates of the Caribbean 2:Dead Man's Chest starring Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Kiera Knightley, and Bill Nighy was........good.yes, thats just it, it was good.but totally paled in comparison to the original.The Curse of the Black Pearl, had this effortless feel to it, like every thing just flowed so well, the jokes, the music, the action, it was seamless.but PotC 2, was forced.it started out very well, a very beautiful opening scene of Kiera sitting in the rain in a wedding dress, the rain drenching everything, and it was so picturesque, it was great!but then, it just kinda stopped being great.i was sitting there thinking, "Ok, this will pick up any second." an hour later, "Ok, the first hour will be slow, but the last hour and a half will be amazing!"well it wasn't really.i couldn't believe it, the whole movie was just, good, but not the edge of my seat craziness the first one was.i loved the last 30 second though.when you see the boots walking down the steps and your thinking, "Who is this going to be? Barbossa!" and then it ends, and i turned to my friends and said, "Well the movie was kind of a let down, except for the last 30 seconds."but don't get me wrong, i liked this movie a lot, out of the context of the first.if you look at this movie without looking at the first, its so good, but when you think of the second, its just, "Oh Dead Man's Chest is a sequel to Curse of the Black Pearl?"the problems with the movie for me are:over used jokes, they just repeated jokes they did in the first and at first it was kinda cute, but then it just got annoying;long running time, the whole movie just seemed to drag and drag and the whole scene with the cannibals?yeah, that could been cut, it had nothing to do with the plot whatsoever;Johnny Depp's forced role.go ahead be angry with me for this, but it has to be said, Johnny Depp's role was forced, he tried to hard to recreate the magic of Captain Jack Sparrow.i was thinking, "No, Johnny don't try so hard. Tone it down, don't play it up.";the jokes they did have?well there were a few good ones, but nothing laugh out loud funny, just things you would chuckle at, or smile over. the redeeming quality's?well the music for one.Hans Zimmer, the composer, reused a lot, but thats great, the music makes this movie good.and the general movie was great to look at. there were times i wanted to clothes my eyes, until they started talking, but then i thought, "But I'll miss all this great cinematography!"and another good point.anything and everything with Bill Nighy.the best actor in this whole movie.with out question Bill Nighy.my absolute favorite.everything with Davy Jones I loved.i could tell it was Bill Nighy under all the CG, it was great how well he was put together, how Bill Nighy's great characteristics still came out of the CG. i went into this movie hoping for a sort of Indiana Jones plot.go on a grand adventure, save whoever needs save, resolve the plot, and boom over, ready for the new adventure in the next movie that has nothing to do with this one.but i accepted that it decided to go with a lord of the rings approach, thats still good.as in not resolve anything, leave with a huge cliffhanger(Geoffrey Rush's cameo=brilliant), making people wanting more.now we have to wait another year, and of course we will all go and see it.evil movie producers! final thoughts.all in all a good movie, go see it its worth it.but the first is so so so so much better, its not funny.i am giving this movie a 7/10 for great music(love the Davy Jones theme),great actor in Bill Nighy,great visuals, and just because it is Pirates of the Caribbean.thats right it gets points just because it was the sequel to my favorite movie.well go ahead yell at me, i am prepared.but you must remember, I LIKED IT!