Excellent!!!

Rating: 9/10 (9 July 2006)

I begged my mother to let me see this movie!! I loved Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, so I needed to see this movie the day it came out! And I did!! All the sequels I have seen (with the exception of Star Wars and Harry Potter) were so terrible!! This is a major exception! The camera work in this movie, was excellent!! Whoever did the cameras, I applaud you! This movie seemed much funnier than the first one and much more scary at the same time. Pirates 2 played with all of your emotions: happy, scared, suspense, romance, terror, sympathy... The list goes on and on!!
Johnny Depp... This man is GOD!!! Whatever you see him in, he is always amazing!! GEEZ!! He even walks in character! How many actors do you know, that do that?! Jack Sparrow can be so cruel and so sarcastically funny, that Johnny Depp nails it in every single scene, with every single line, with every single movement. And this is coming from someone who isn't freakishly obsessed with the guy!
Orlando Bloom. Have you ever seen him in anything where he is in the tiniest bit funny? I don't know if it was the lines, or him, but he had a few funny parts. When he gets upset, wow. I feel for him. I really do. Earlier that week, my brother is telling me that he isn't a great actor. This man could do silent films; he wears his heart on his sleeve.
Kiera Knightly, well... I haven't seen her in anything else except for the 1 and 2 of these movies, so I don't have much to compare her to. I think she did a great job where she was trying to make Jack believe something (I don't want to spoil it for the rest of you). I was right there with him! She's a fabulous liar, a fabulous actress.
I don't think that this movie should be as long as it is. Two and a half hours... That's what Harry Potter is for. They could have left out the whole 3-way sword fight. Granted, it was quite funny, but it took up too much time for such a senseless act.
This was, in fact, scarier than the first one. The squid, the violence, the CGI, etc. I would recommend this movie to anyone I met!! Granted, kinds under a certain age... probably not. But this movie deserves whatever they get for all of the hard work put into it.
ACADEMY AWARDS, HERE PIRATES 2 COMES!!