Horrid fodder

Rating: 3/10 (26 August 2006)

If you are a still a sucker for good CGI effects then you'll like it as some of this is pretty good (rogue pirates and kraken). But after so many years of groundbreaking computer graphics, this is hardly a recipe for success anymore. I found the dialogue terrible, with little wit or intelligent humour to be found. Everything felt corny and flat. At times the the clarity of dialogue was also questionable. Storyline was convoluted as characters and script wasn't very well strung together and just left me brainlessly soaking up action scene after action scene but feeling empty about the overall depth of experience. These actors were stretched to 1% of their actual acting capacity (except for a couple whom actually had the scope in their character to really shine).