Entertaining enough but not as good as the original

Rating: 5/10 (17 July 2006)

Having now seen the sequel to my much beloved Curse of the Black Pearl I have to admit that I was quite disappointed with it. Johnny Depp of course was fantastic and as always can do no wrong in my eyes. Keira Knightley was good but my friend and I agree that we spent more time looking at the contrast of her hair and eyebrow color than at her acting, that said the lucky thing got to kiss the gorgeous Johnny! Orlando was quite improved since the last one as well I thought. That all said the plot was seriously lacking. The director and producers were more concerned with the getting bums on seats for the third one than actually creating a stand alone film. If I was someone who hadn't seen the first one and walked straight into the sequel I would emerge wondering what all the fuss was about!!! Hopefully the third will resurrect the franchise in my eyes!!! But for the mean time I'm going to go watch the original...