boring!

Rating: 5/10 (31 July 2006)

I loved the first film, this one unfortunately bored me to tears. This movie appeared like people got together and shot a whole lot of footage, then some editors got together over a casket of rum and spliced it all together.... yes the editing sucked! Scenes would pop up with no connection to the last scene, and several times in mid acting or expression. Depp used many of the same adoring facial expressions and quirky moves that was so endearing in the first film, but there was almost no context, it was "insert cute expression here", splice, next scene. The movie was loooong, and both my girlfriend and I kept wishing it would end to no avail! There were subplots which made no sense and went nowhere... lovable characters from first movie would pop in with no purpose, parade around and then linger... for the sake of being there. It was like an embarrassing party where people show up and don't know what to do, so they just sit around and shuffle their feet. The visual effects of this film were very good, but I personally found them gross. They obviously tried to change it up from the first film, but while I loved the spectral shapes of I, I got yucked out of the slimy grossness of II. Anyways, I pretty much disliked everything about this film. I may wait for the third on video.