Captain Jack Sparrow is back and he has a debt to pay...

Rating: 8/10 (8 July 2006)

This rather good movie as sequel to the sleeper hit Pirates of the Caribbean: the curse of the Black Pearl is not as good as its predecessor. Of course, this time it isn't a surprise as was the first one, it also has a very choppy flow to it that doesn't help. The plot goes here and there, to many characters introduced when all we came to see (well most of us anyway)is Captain Jack. Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightly return too and there is to much focus on them for my tastes, don't get me wrong they need to be in it, but more Jack please. Still you get action in the form of a rather cool sword fight in a water wheel, an aquatic sea monster attack, and other scenes like this and you get your comedy, the best bit coming near the start of the movie where Jack and his crew are in the clutches of a group of cannibals. So while this movie is not as good as the first for the most part, it is still a rather fun film that would have benefited with a shorter running time. It could easily be edited down a good fifteen minutes or so. Still there was a nice surprise at the end, at least for me, however IMDb kind of ruins it. Thankfully I didn't see that till tonight. So if you liked the first Pirates go see this one because while not the first one your still in for a treat, but be warned it ends in a cliffhanger.