Boring!

Rating: 4/10 (21 July 2006)

The first film was excellent. Fun, exciting, enchanting. The sequel is long, boring, and pointless. Johnny Depp has become a pale characterisation of his former self. Didn't grab me at all. He over-acted in away akin to Willie Wonka. For a man of such accomplished talents his choices of recent film and his acting in them has been at best cringe-worthy and at worst plain bad. The scenes where he runs along the beach away from his cannibal captors just makes me wonder why would anyone want to run in that manner in the first place. The charm that Depp can so easily create in a character is lacking.
It's the first film repackaged without any of the charm. I guess you expect lots of Pirates running around doing Pratt things and if that floats your boat, then fine and dandy. I fell asleep. Honestly, in a packed cinema, I couldn't keep my eyes open.
There are lots of returning characters from the first film, in which they were adequate if not essential. Here they are brought back without any great purpose- and I couldn't remember who half of them were.
I know they are making the 3rd film in the franchise- one was enough for me, I have no desire to see a third.