The consummate summer movie

Rating: 7/10 (7 August 2006)

Movie light for summer viewing? This movie was great fun as expected, over-qualified actors, great color filming, great costumes, great sets, nothing serious at all. But, maybe they saw Lord of the Rings too many times: I think those were water orcs and way too many of them. Once you've seen a couple of stupid sea-men you don't need to keep seeing them over and over. The physical adventures of the characters, the sword-fights, etc would have been exciting enough without the stupid creatures added on. And the blatant set-up for a sequel is a box-office cheat. It's a shame they didn't make a better movie while they had all of the pieces assembled. But, any movie with Depp, I'll be there.