Disney does Empire Strikes Back

Rating: 7/10 (9 July 2006)

After coming out of this film, I felt a little somewhat disappointed at first, feeling that maybe some of the magic that made the first such a sleeper hit, was gone as everyone involved knew that this one would be an instant smash this time around. By the end credits I thought my fears of the next two pirate films doing a matrix 2&3 and being lesser than the first one, but after thinking about it more and more, the better it became. All the humour of the first was there, as were the characters (not overplayed at all) it was just more of the same. The film is certainly a lot darker and more serious in this one(not sure if we need to see an eye being pecked out...bit much for a 12a),with the villains being a lot more threatening in their behaviour. It was beautifully shot (opening shots in the rain, amazing) and the wheel chase was great, some cgi was iffy in places (davy Jones, could swear is real, kraken...haha, where's the blue screen) but as a whole it's wonderful stuff. As with the first, Depp steals the show while Bloom and Knightly look pretty. it was my girlfriend who made the comparison to Empire, so the credit's all hers, (you'll know what I mean once you've seen it and have seen the original star wars trilogy) the film is dark, and you definitely want to know what happens next. Let's just hope there's no Ewoks.