Everybody's thinking it, I'm just saying it!

Rating: 4/10 (27 July 2006)

It looks like everyone used up their creativity and originality with the first one. The movie has the same basic plot (cursed sea crew after Sparrow - just think sea monsters), dire attempts for Jack to outwit them (which is really just a lot of melodrama, and gets pretty old) and of course, the heart breaking love story between Elizabeth and Will. Although, any surprises in this movie were ruined by poorly chosen scenes for previews. I can't imagine what happened when the actors read this tired script that reuses and makes puns of the great jokes from the first movie. It must have been hard for Knightly to pull some sort of consistency with Elizabeth. One minute she's holding a gun to a man's head and sword fighting, the next she's screaming her head off (for no apparent reason). I must give credit to Bloom though, he found 2 new expressions for this movie, and I was dazzled. Needless to say, I was a little disappointed with the writing, acting, and even the score. Maybe a few new bars here and there, or a key change, but that was the only difference. Obviously, the first wasn't intended to be a trilogy, and the plot turns just didn't make sense (a lot of the plot was just unnecessary time fillers for an already long film). The 2nd sequel out of 3 isn't always the best, but this was just a poor show.